About the crossbow.....

[Whoohoo]

Hey,

I want to make the bolts that the crossbow shoots fly faster. When I change the air/water velocity the gun shoots very inaccurate. Is there anyway to change this and still keep the 100% accuracy?

Thanks!

 

[rpgprog]

is this for a mod or just for fun. if its a mod than there might be some constant in the crossbow cpp file that is like power or velocity or something. Try it, just sure though

 

[Whoohoo]

yes a mod but i can't seem to find it

 

[blinking halo]

i had the same problem, just changing the speed makes it insanely inaccurate.

 

[Whoohoo]

Yes, It's really weird...

 

[Angry Lawyer]

In what way does it become inaccurate? Does it fire randomly, like the pistol's fire cone, or does it always overshoot by a certain amount?

I'm going to predict it's the second one. You need to change the angle at which the bolt is being fired.

Time to get out those trigonometry books.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Whoohoo]

Yes, it's the second one Can you help me? I'd really appreciate it!

 

[Angry Lawyer]

I'm not very good at maths. Just look at the section of code where the bolt is created and given angles, and change the angle calculation.

I assume you've been at school long enough to know how to do vectors? If you're not good at vectors, just enter some random values until you get a good one.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[short recoil]

I'm not very good at maths. Just look at the section of code where the bolt is created and given angles, and change the angle calculation.

I assume you've been at school long enough to know how to do vectors? If you're not good at vectors, just enter some random values until you get a good one.

-Angry Lawyer

Just dont type in a too high figure otherwise you will have a pretty good suicide weapon

 

[Whoohoo]

SOLVED!

Go to movechars_shared.cpp

change max_velocity to 12000 (or something else)

go to your weapon_crossbow.cpp and change bolt_air_velocity to everything beneath the max_velocity you set up in the movevars_shared.cpp

 

[Whoohoo]

 

[Sieg]

Changed,works ok.
Time to burn some combine ^_^.

 

[Whoohoo]

burn? :naughty: with what?

 

[Angry Lawyer]

Makes sense. If you were setting it to a value above the maxspeed, then the calculation of where the crossbow should aim wouldn't match the place the bolt was going, as the bolt would be slowed to the maxspeed.

-Angry Lawyer