How to deal with different weapons

[Pancra]

How do you think will be better to deal with different kinds of weapons?,each weapon should have damage,number of bullets in clip, rate of fire and all those things...
Should I make one alt value in each player to see what weapon he is carrying and make calculations for all the features of the weapon in the code?.
Or should I make a lot of variables in each player saying what kind of weapon he is carrying, what damage that weapon does...etc?.

I dont know...tell me how you would do it.

[DavidN]

I'd probably do it by having one value to denote the player's weapon, and activate/deactivate different groups to deal with pressing Fire depending on which weapon is currently active.

[Pancra]

could you explain more?, remember that there are 4 players, should I make 4 groups for each weapon? (that would be a lot of work), or there is a way to work with qualifiers?.

Apart from that...you say that, when player picks up a weapon, some group (old weapon) deactivates and the other (new weap) activates?

[DavidN]

Having multiple players may make the idea a bit more difficult, and I'll have to think about the most efficient way to do it... having copies of each weapon group for each player would work, but could easily become massive.

[Pancra]

well...no problem, I'll try that way.

Thanks a lot DavidN, for this and for the other problems you resolved...and for the problems that will come, hehe.

[thewreck]

here is a suggestion:

take the func loop object for example,

when a player wants to shoot call a function called "shootGun_"+$str(weaponnumber) , with arg1 = player id,


on function "shootGun_1"
+ player object id = arg 1
+ player object reload value <0
+ player gun 1 ammo > 0
-> shoot gun 1 bullet
-> play gun 1 sound
-> set gun 1 reload time to player
-> reduce gun 1 ammo.

on function "shootGun_2"
+ player object id = arg 1
+ player object reload value <0
+ player gun 2 ammo > 0
-> shoot gun 2 bullet
-> play gun 2 sound
-> set gun 2 reload time to player
-> reduce gun 2 ammo.