How to make a gun fire when picked up?

[HarryM]

Hi, I want to make my character shoot out lasers when a certain button is pressed. However I want him to do this ONLY after he has picked up an object i.e. a gun.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance

[Klownzilla]

Have a global counter set to 1 after he picks it up and "upon pressing space bar + global value A = 1" ---->shooting animation/launch object. Turning on a flag on the player character after taking the gun if you don't want to use global values should be fine too. Just make sure that the player object is a global object otherwise flags will be reset when you leave an area. Hope this helps :-)

[HarryM]

How do I set this for after he picks up the gun? That's mainly what I cant figure out. :-)

[Klownzilla]

As soon as you take the gun you add 1 to a global value or turn on a flag on the player character. In the events you add the stuff i wrote in my first reply. That means he can't shoot even if space bar is pressed unless global value =1 or if you use a flag, not until flag 1 is on.

[King_Cool]

Topic sounds dangerous

[chrilley]

Made a quick example. Something like this you're looking for?

[Klownzilla]

Ah you beat me to it Chrilley I was just ready to post an example

[chrilley]

I got... trigger happy.

[HarryM]

How do I set a flag? Sorry it wont let me see the example (I think i may be using an outdated version or something) :-(

[chrilley]

It's made with Fusion 2.5 Developer version. I am actually not sure if that has an impact when opening the files with Standard Version. I don't think so though.

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