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FPSC Classic Scripts / Shooting fireballs

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MTC Music
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Posted: 15th Aug 2007 16:30
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Is it possible to have your player shoot fireballs from his hands? I have pack 5 with the fist weapons and I have the sprite pack with the fireballs. The problem I'm having is getting the fireballs to shoot from the fists! Is it possible to have a sprite move as a projectile?

Thanks to anyone who could offer some help!

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Posted: 15th Aug 2007 16:41
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short answer is no.

long answer is yes.

you will need to re-animate the hands in milkshape and add a fireball flying out of the hand, straight ahead, in the fire animation.

Then you would need your specular map to make the fireball always appear lit.

It's not going to look great, but it's probably the only way to do it.. getting an enemy to shoot fireballs is another thing altogether, and is (comparitively) easier

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Make the fist weapon like the rocket launcher. Have the projectile model be a small box and texture it the fireball sprite image with a black (invisible) background so the only thing that will show when the box shoots out of the hand is the fireball sprite. The ammo for the hand could be called "Mana". I dont see a way to animate the sprite on the model though.

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Posted: 15th Aug 2007 23:07
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THat won't work because the flak is effected by ambience and lights, so if you shoot the fireball in a dark room, it will come out black

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Ok, scrap that idea.

Plan B:

How about a trigger zone that fires a fireball at the player when he enters it? A fireball trap. Is that possible using the fireball sprite from sprite pack 1? If so, how do I get the fireball to spawn on activate since it doesn,t have the same properties as a regular entity?

Thanks Lon & Butter fingers for your help with the last part!

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Perhaps an illumination map for the fireball texture would keep it bright.

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Posted: 16th Aug 2007 23:58
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I made staffs, you could do the same idea with hands. Oh and these models are crap, cos I modeled them a long time ago

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If you used alpha on the projectiles and have some textureing and animating skill, you could make it look quite good.

DBZ by any chance?

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Posted: 17th Aug 2007 16:25 Edited at: 17th Aug 2007 17:10
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Thanks Tyrano man. They look fine to me! I'll try them out. My design and animation skills are non existant. Are these staves FPSC-ready?

Thanks

EDIT: Just tried out the staves and they look great for what i'm doing. Only thing is, the projectile is just a black ball, and it explodes into a black puff of smoke. I can't figure out how to change this to at least a red ball exploding into a real explosion. I know this is probably very easy. Soory for the dumb question, but how can I change this??

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Posted: 17th Aug 2007 23:16
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I dont think any of the staves have black projectiles... the only ones that were there were red,light blue, dark blue and yellow. Maybe you deleted a texture or something accidently?

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I don't think I deleted anything. Here is a screenshot of the Fireball directory in the gamecore/flak directory. the dds file is as you put it. Maybe it's my lighting. I have very, very low ambient lighting. That must be it.

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yeah, only ambient lighting works on Vweaps and flak, static and dynaimc lights don't work on it I think.

Try it on a test level with default lighting, and you'll probably find it is textured

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