Laser...

[FireSlash]

ok. heres what im trying to do. i want a sniper laser, like the ont in T2 kinda. basically it should be a long, instant, solid beam that fades away... has a infinate range but wont go through walls.

so, im kinda at a loss of how to do this, how can i make the laser effect? i dont want to spawn dozens of small lasers, as that would create alot of lag. could someone point out how to do this please?

 

[Postal]

Best way I see it is to simple modify the shockrifle, its not that laggy, and not too hard.

 

[FireSlash]

the shock rifle uses a texture that moves forward... not what i had in mind. would it be possible to change the length of a model? IE streach a cylinder from point A to point B?

 

[Smoke39]

You could make the pieces bigger by increasing their draw scale and decreasing their fatness.

 

[FireSlash]

wait, the shock rifle might work after all... depends on alot of side things though. ill toy with it, and if i cant get it working ill try somthing else.
edit> not sure exactly how the projectile works, nevr messed with this kinda weapon before...

 

[Postal]

Hmm never thought of what Smoke suggested, but thats a good idea.

 

[FireSlash]

but we could need to know the forumula for fatness to scale it correctly. if someone can dig it up, it would be possible, (but it would need alot of fine tuneing)

 

[Smoke39]

I didn't actually mean to use one big piece, I meant you could do that to make fewer, larger pieces.

 

[TaoPaiPai]

fatness is a byte (0<255) and extreme numbers give weird results.
The shockrifle (and pulsegun altfire) use recursivity.Although I don't like recursivity as a part of my philosophy of coding,they both work well in game.

method:spawn a little piece of laser material at the end of the gun.This one will in turn spawn at its end another of the same projectile(a child projectile),which in turn ,etc... until either they meet an actor or a certain distance.

 

[FireSlash]

yes, but wont that create a large amount of lag? since the server has to tell all of the clients that all these 300 some pieces are here? or will it only send the primray projectile and let the client do the rest?

 

[Smoke39]

Does the pulse gun lag? Or the shock rifle? A shock rifle-like laser would probably lag more than a pulse gun laser, since the shock laser is made of particles, which can get laggy at times.

 

[Postal]

pritty near everything in the game lags somewhat, try playing online in a map that has no textures, one room, and no weapon, you will have a hirer ping, but no fun. yea the shockrifle lags, but its nto bad, dont complain.

 

[Smoke39]

By "lag" I meant an easily noticable amount of slow-down.

 

[Postal]

I realy should make a Gatling laser.

 

[Smoke39]

Why?

 

[FireSlash]

Originally posted by Postal
pritty near everything in the game lags somewhat, try playing online in a map that has no textures, one room, and no weapon, you will have a hirer ping, but no fun. yea the shockrifle lags, but its nto bad, dont complain.

umm, yeah, thats all good an well in a DM game with 12 or so people, but in this mod.. 32 player max (engine limit i think) a ingodly number of bots filling in holes, 50 or so structures (as stationary pawns) in that kinda scenerio, lag != good.

 

[Postal]

Well supply your users with cray super computers.

 

[FireSlash]

sure, if you would like to pay for them

 

[Postal]

*Steals Smoke39 credit card*

Here you go, make sure to get me one.

 

[Smoke39]

Hey! You can't do that! Y'know why? Cuz I have no credit card! Haw!