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DarkBASIC Discussion / Scatter shot

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Wrath unleashed
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Posted: 18th Apr 2009 03:31
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Ok I'm writing a program for school and I'm trying to build a scatter shot program. The only way I'm getting it to work is to make my player character rotate randomly while firing the weapon. The weapon fires premade projectiles. Does anybody know a better way?
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Caleb1994
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Posted: 18th Apr 2009 22:11
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what do you mean by "Scatter shot" and is this 3d 2d, rpg, fps, mmorpg(haha)

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BN2 Productions
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if in 3d you could just make a cone for where it is hit. Or for the projectiles angle, take the angle of the gun +- a random number for the angle difference in both up/down and left/right angles.

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That1Smart Guy
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Posted: 19th Apr 2009 18:41
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Quote: "mmorpg(haha)"

roflmao

Quote: "what do you mean by "Scatter shot""

i think hes saying like a shotgun effect, where bullets fly everywhere, but make it coming from an automatic weapon

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Caleb1994
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oh ya i'm dumb lol.

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arbiter chewbacca hybrid
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They have schools for Darkbasic?
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Quote: "They have schools for Darkbasic? "

Not that I know of, but some schools have game programming classes which USE darkbasic (since it IS free for schools, or used to be at least)

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Phaelax
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How's this idea?

1. Take the point of impact from a normal shot
2. Apply a small random deviation to the contact point
3. Determine how many shell fragments should impact (5-7 pieces, or whatever)
4. Randomly place them around the contact point using a set maximum radius

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@phaelax
The problem with that is no matter how far away the contact point is, all the fragments will be the same distance apart.
You could include the distance in the calculations of course.

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