[ut2003] adventures in multimode weapons

hi all-

i want to extend class Weapon to create a multimode weapon. in my first attempt, i have discovered that i do not understand how the weapon system works. i have read the description of the weapon firing process. of particular interest to me is the comment by Dante at the bottom of the page:

Dante: It seems as if UT is calling Weapon.ClientStartFire/Weapon.ServerStartFire which sets WeaponFire.bIsFiring = true (in Weapon.StartFire) which might be the trigger to call modeDoFire.

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does anyone know what conditions must be met for the engine to call Weapon.ClientStartFire? the reason i ask is, in my first attempt, i subclassed Weapon and replaced references to the 'FireMode' array with references to a dynamic array and explicitly set FireMode[0] and FireMode[1] to 'none'. when this is done, the engine never calls 'ClientStartFire'. so, i am assuming that the engine is looking at the 'WeaponFire' in FireMode[0] or FireMode[1] to determine if ClientStartFire should be called. can anyone confirm this?

if so, i will have to maintain my list of WeaponFire's and move them into the FireMode array when appropriate.

thanks,
codepig

i forgot to mention that i had looked at Unreal Wiki: Multiammo Weapons as well. that is pretty close, but what i really wanted to find out is, does the engine require the use of the FireMode[] array in class Weapon to call Weapon.ClientStartFire. i think it does, but i was hoping someone could confirm that.

i got my prototype/test code working. i'm using the work around i suggested in the initial post. it's not the way i really wanted to do it, but i guess that doesn't really matter.

thanks,
codepig