GunLabs

[skib]

It's great!
It doesn't have much but it's good!

[wildweasel]

Inventory "Variables" and Making a Sniper Rifle is now added to the tutorial database. Thank you, Skib, your tutorial sucked enough that I decided it was time to teach people to do it the right way. =P

[amv2k9]

I have a suggestion for one of the tutorials:

Let the reader know that using:

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GUNX ABC 3 *action function*

instead of

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GUNX AAABBBCCC 1 *action function*

will cause the check for the action function to be done every third tic instead of every tic, which, when used with something like A_WeaponReady, can cause jerkiness in bob & weave.

[skib]

I have a suggestion too.
Why don't you teach about the language lump and how to use it?

[Jimmy]

[wiki=LANGUAGE]It ain't really that difficult.[/wiki]

[skib]

I know!
It was just a suggestion for newbies!

[wildweasel]

I know!
It was just a suggestion for newbies!

I couldn't teach you anything more than the wiki article says. This also decidedly goes beyond the site's purpose of being about guns.

[rsl]

Hi all,

sorry for bumping this thread in the middle of nothing, but I just stumbled upon a nice page "FPS-weapons-related" whose link you may want to include in GunLabs:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... ardFPSGuns

It's an ironically-written, yet IMHO quite accurate description of "weapon slot standards" encountered throughout the whole FPS genre - it may prove inspirational for anybody wanting to design a new modification or weapon set.
BTW, glad to see the new shape your "DOOM Armory" has evolved into!

[wildweasel]

GunLabs has been updated with two tutorials I pulled from the smoldering wreckage of the Skulltag Tutorials forum. You might have seen these before, but if you haven't, they may be worth a look.

How to make your weapons fun to use - a guide to making every weapon a joy to wield.

Making your project less of a pain to download and run - pretty much what it says on the tin.

[Slax]

Any chance you could do one on how to integrate sound and gfx properly? Or rather, one on how not do do it.
Stuff like how sndinfo and decorate work together. I'm getting nowhere fast.

[wildweasel]

Any chance you could do one on how to integrate sound and gfx properly? Or rather, one on how not do do it.
Stuff like how sndinfo and decorate work together. I'm getting nowhere fast.

Hmm, thought I already had one, guess it's time to ret-con the tutorial ordering and get that going.

[edit] Adding Your Own Sound Effects is now a part of GunLabs canon. =P

[Slax]

Cool. Now how about one on custom gfx? Another grand omission.
Edith: Wait, no, never mind. Had something else in mind but it slipped away. I'm being an idiot. Need a lobotomy.

[wildweasel]

New Ammo Types and Weapons That Reload is now added to the Tutorials database, as is a retrospective on WW-Diaz in the Weasel's Mods section.

[TheDarkArchon]

About the reloading tutorial: The Goto ReloadFinish part at the end of the ReloadLoop state is unnecessary since it would've fallen through to ReloadFinish anyway.

[wildweasel]

It just feels cleaner to me to leave it in there.