How can I program this game I'm making to only allow you to carry two weapons at any one time? So say you had an axe and a knife, and you wanted to pick up a shotgun, you'd have to drop either the axe or knife in order to grab that gun? But of course, be able to switch back if you want to drop the gun and repick up the axe (like if you ran out of ammo and it became useless etc.) Similar to Condemned.
Thanks in advance.
Having to choose between weapons?
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Re: Having to choose between weapons?
> can carry an axe and a shotgun
> can't fit a knife in there anywhere
https://youtu.be/aO2t6LO9oLI?t=1m3s
One way is to use Touch() or TryPickup() in ZScript to check if the player has at least 2 weapons, then abort the pickup if they do. One way to do the count is to adapt the probe method the backpack uses to get the player's ammo.
Without ZScript, what I would do would be:
1. create a custominventory actor that replaces each weapon
2. in that custominventory actor's pickup state, use countinv to find the total number of weapons the player is carrying, checking each weapon type explicitly, and fail if that number exceeds 2
3. in each weapon's spawn state, have it spawn its custominventory replacer before disappearing
This would only work in a "closed" weapon mod where all the canonical weapons have been replaced entirely (including the pistol, assuming you even want to treat it as a space-occupying weapon per my knife comment) and you don't have to worry about any other weapons appearing.
> can't fit a knife in there anywhere
https://youtu.be/aO2t6LO9oLI?t=1m3s
One way is to use Touch() or TryPickup() in ZScript to check if the player has at least 2 weapons, then abort the pickup if they do. One way to do the count is to adapt the probe method the backpack uses to get the player's ammo.
Without ZScript, what I would do would be:
1. create a custominventory actor that replaces each weapon
2. in that custominventory actor's pickup state, use countinv to find the total number of weapons the player is carrying, checking each weapon type explicitly, and fail if that number exceeds 2
3. in each weapon's spawn state, have it spawn its custominventory replacer before disappearing
This would only work in a "closed" weapon mod where all the canonical weapons have been replaced entirely (including the pistol, assuming you even want to treat it as a space-occupying weapon per my knife comment) and you don't have to worry about any other weapons appearing.