Reloading tutorial

Mr Evi1 · Jul 17, 2003

I finally got around to turning my reloading 'tutorial' into something actually resembling a tutorial. Here it is: http://www.cheese83.freeserve.co.uk/unreal/tutorials/reloadingtut.htm

Let me know if you find it useful, or if you find any errors or have any suggestions.

Mychaeel · Jul 17, 2003

I could imagine that people might find it more useful---or find it at all, for that matter---if you put it on the Wiki.

That aside, you shouldn't use tabs to indent anything in HTML. It may look the way you want it to in Internet Explorer, but other browsers handle tabs differently (and for that matter, technically speaking they wouldn't have to handle it any differently from normal whitespace at all as far as the HTML standards are concerned). Putting your tutorial on the Wiki would fix that problem too.

Mr Evi1 · Jul 17, 2003

Mychaeel said:
I could imagine that people might find it more useful---or find it at all, for that matter---if you put it on the Wiki.

I'll try and get around to doing that today. EDIT: The Wiki is now one page bigger

Mychaeel said:
...That aside, you shouldn't use tabs to indent anything in HTML...

The formatting went a bit funny. I used a program called 'webcpp' to provide highlighting, and normally it seems to convert tabs to spaces, but for some reason it kept the tabs for the first lot of code.

Romanov · Jul 17, 2003

Hi,
This is a great tutorial but Ive got one question I dont understand why you have this in the code,

//Ignore FireMode[1] which doesn't use any ammo.

what if I want to use fire mode 1 as well as fire mode 0 for firing ? ie i dont want to use alt fire to do the reload as I can use the exec function you have placed there instead, this is what has stopped me from using reloading because I want to keep fire mode 1 for an alt fire and just use an exec button to do the reload.

so the question is if i use fire mode 1 should I just remove this line from the code so i dont ignore fire mode 1?

cheers
Romanov

edit: I should add that gun tute u did was also really useful there wa some stuff in there about default properties I hadnt realised

Mychaeel · Jul 17, 2003

By the way, Mr_Evi1's tutorial can meanwhile be found at Unreal Wiki: Reloading Weapons. Thanks.

Mr Evi1 · Jul 17, 2003

Romanov said:
...I dont understand why you have this in the code,

//Ignore FireMode[1] which doesn't use any ammo...

I should have put in a comment about that. That bit is there only if alt-fire is used for reloading. If it's done solely with the a bound key, then you can take out the HasAmmo function completely and use whatever you like for alt-fire. Note that if you wanted the alt-fire mode to use different ammo to the primary, it would require some changes.

joshsslade · Jul 18, 2003

Hey,

I cant get this to work.

The bind script does not make the thing come up in the menu.
I havent changed the code of the main script for reloading and i saved it then got my deserteagle code and made it a reloadingweapon subclass then the game and the weapon does not reload and just keeps shooting like normal. What do i have to do to get it working?

Thanks

Mychaeel · Jul 18, 2003

The tutorial (on the Wiki) links to a page about the GUIExtraKeyBinding class that elaborates on how to get custom key bindings work. Have a look at it.

joshsslade · Jul 18, 2003

the bar thatshows clip ammo works but it does not stop when its emty whats wrong?

thanks

Mr Evi1 · Jul 18, 2003

joshsslade said:
...the weapon does not reload and just keeps shooting like normal...

joshsslade said:
...it does not stop when its emty whats wrong?..

Hmmm, it seems that I forgot a very important bit: The 'AllowFire' function in the FireMode class(es) must be modified to only allow firing when there is ammo on the clip. I've added the appropriate code to the version on the Wiki. I'll update the version on my website later.

joshsslade · Jul 18, 2003

Thanks so much mr evil that was exelent and helped alot ive been trying for ages to make my own

Romanov · Jul 18, 2003

quick reply but yes thnx alot its really good stuff

joshsslade · Jul 19, 2003

also is there a way i could get it to reload without holding it down?

Romanov · Jul 19, 2003

quote from tutorial:

"Bullets are inserted one at a time. If you wanted to completely fill the weapon in one go (as would be the case with most modern-style weapons) then change the bit in the InsertBullet function to ClipCount = Default.ClipCount"

joshsslade · Jul 19, 2003

Romanov said:
quote from tutorial:

"Bullets are inserted one at a time. If you wanted to completely fill the weapon in one go (as would be the case with most modern-style weapons) then change the bit in the InsertBullet function to ClipCount = Default.ClipCount"

i mean when reloading insted of just pressing onece u have to load the

joshsslade · Jul 19, 2003

Romanov said:
quote from tutorial:

"Bullets are inserted one at a time. If you wanted to completely fill the weapon in one go (as would be the case with most modern-style weapons) then change the bit in the InsertBullet function to ClipCount = Default.ClipCount"

i mean when reloading insted of just pressing onece u have to hold the key down for it to work how can i make it so u just press once?

Mr Evi1 · Jul 19, 2003

joshsslade said:
i mean when reloading insted of just pressing onece u have to hold the key down for it to work how can i make it so u just press once?

It stops when you let go of the key because of the 'OnRelease' bit in the bind. To not have it stop when you let go, remove that bit, so you just have something like: E=ReloadMeNow

joshsslade · Jul 19, 2003

Mr_Evi1 said:
It stops when you let go of the key because of the 'OnRelease' bit in the bind. To not have it stop when you let go, remove that bit, so you just have something like: E=ReloadMeNow

Thanks i just wasted my time i rewrote the code

but thanks anyway

Dark[NSF] · Jul 29, 2003

Found a small bug, if you have 2 weapons on one slot and one runs out of ammo. You can access the other weapon.

Romanov · Jul 30, 2003

Yes but only if that weapon has ammo, basically the code does Bringdown if the weapon is out of ammo which would free up the other weapon if there are 2 in that slot. You'd need to code around that.

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