Dual-Wielding weapons

[Caligari87]

Someone gave me this idea in relation to Haloguns2.wad and some other project.

Would it be possible to add support for the following flags / keybindings?

[spoiler="Flags"]+DUALWIELD = Designates that the weapon can be used one-handedly. this flag would have to be present on both weapons if the player wanted to dual-wield them.

+LEFT = Tells the engine that the weapon is on the left side, so that if another +LEFT weapon is selected afterwards, it's flipped horizontally.

+RIGHT = the same as +LEFT, just opposite.[/spoiler]

[spoiler="Keys"]Fire Left = Duh, fires a lefthanded weapon
Fire Right = Just the opposite
Note: With only one weapon, both keys would behave the same.

Alt-Fire Left & Alt-Fire Right = Same, but for Alt-Fire.

Dual-Wield = hold this key and select another weapon. Selecting another weapon with two weapons in hand and the key held down replaces the most recently added weapon. Selecting another weapon with the key released lowers both weapons and replaces them with the single selection.[/spoiler]

I'm no programmer, but this seems like it would be fairly straightforward, to me at least. The biggest problem would be if a weapon fires projectiles / railguns off-center, but code checks in those routines could reverse the important values, depending.

[Graf Zahl]

The biggest problem is that the entire game code assumes that the player can only hold one weapon. That alone makes it very non-straightforward to change.

[Phobus]

Looks like you'd be very seriously fighting the system to implement that.

[Caligari87]

The biggest problem is that the entire game code assumes that the player can only hold one weapon. That alone makes it very non-straightforward to change.

Well, that sucks, to say the least of it. *sigh*

"Someday, somehow
Gonna make it all right
But not right now"
Nickelback, Someday

Yeah, someday, hopefully.



EDIT: I am a programmer, just not a very good one. And I only know Q-BASIC.

[Zell]

Didn't the old railgun.bex let you use two railgun shots from left and right? Just a thought.

[jallamann]

qbasic doesn't count as programming

[Phobus]

[offtopic]I've got that song![/offtopic]

Can't you find a cheap hack version, like perhaps malking it so that you pick up the 'twin whatevers' which is actually just two sprites of the same gun or whatever.

The trick would be, that you use alt-fire to fire one gun's projectile, and the normal fire fires the other, therefore allowing faked seperate shots. What you couldn't do is fire both at the same time, unless you had a gun where normal fire fired just one, whilst alt-fire fired both. As a technicality you could use a script to tell when the player has two weapons. The script then gives the player the dual wield of it, as an example:

Player has SMG
Player then picks up a grenade launcher

Script knows this, and gives the player both weapons, plus the dual wield equivilant, perhaps in a special 'dual-wielding' slot?

normal fire utilises rapid fire SMG whilst altfire uses grenade launcher.

Hows that for a way round?

[Shadelight]

sounds cool! I approve of this idea!

[Phobus]

All you'd have to do to utilise my suggestion is have some serious ACS and decorate skill. Then it should be easy

[killingblair]

The biggest problem is that the entire game code assumes that the player can only hold one weapon. That alone makes it very non-straightforward to change.

However, if you 'Duel Weild' weapons, that could just count as one weapon, thats right, to trick the .exe into thinking 2 guns = 1 gun. Though I'm not sure how to do this, I'll probably think of a way.

[Caligari87]

Can't you find a cheap hack version, like perhaps malking it so that you pick up the 'twin whatevers' which is actually just two sprites of the same gun or whatever.

The trick would be, that you use alt-fire to fire one gun's projectile, and the normal fire fires the other, therefore allowing faked seperate shots. What you couldn't do is fire both at the same time, unless you had a gun where normal fire fired just one, whilst alt-fire fired both. As a technicality you could use a script to tell when the player has two weapons. The script then gives the player the dual wield of it, as an example:

Player has SMG
Player then picks up a grenade launcher

Script knows this, and gives the player both weapons, plus the dual wield equivilant, perhaps in a special 'dual-wielding' slot?

normal fire utilises rapid fire SMG whilst altfire uses grenade launcher.

Hows that for a way round?

Great, except that it uses many duplicate sprites, and can't account for every possible combination without horrendous amounts of work. This was ment to be a flexable alternative to all that scripting and extra graphics, so that the player could use any two guns together.

[Phobus]

Well, with enough work, or limited weapon numbers, it'd be nice and easy to account for every weapon combo.

[Cutmanmike]

Seems like a bit too much hassle to code. Also it would be VERY awkward with weapons that don't look right when dual-wielded in the first place.

[Inuyasha_989]

Not to mention, having the Original weapons with specially coded new ones would look plain weird...

[Shadelight]

Couldn't you just make the grenade not visible and make a sprite that shows the grenade being thrown with alt-fire?