WEAPONS: Adding custom weapons to game

[tommah]

hey all,

I've been playing around with altering weapons within the game (spear thrower shooting Girls Bikes) and I've tried separating them by trying to make them their own weapon instead of replacing the already existing weapons I alter.

I can't seem to figure it out, I haven't tried REALLY hard because I'm not even sure its possible. So I guess the first thing I'd like to know is if it is actually possible, and if it has already been explained somewhere sorry.

Thanks!

Category name Weapon and vehicle modifications

[tab]

it's possible.

Make a folder named dynamicprops in your /data folder

Unpack streamedassets.big

Find the item you want to modify

Copy the item into the newly created data/dynamicprops folder

Create an items.txt entry for your new weapon, with the same new name as the item has in the data/dynamicprops folder

Look at the contents of my mod for an example.

examples

Try experimenting with making weapons more than simply making it fire a different prop or fire a prop, you'd be surprised at how many properties can be changed up for interesting effects.

here's a starter, the pyroeffects determine the special effects that come out of the weapon:

for example, the handgun has pyroeffects on conditions 7, 9, and 12.

i can't remember which is which, but these 3 effects are the muzzle flash of the gun, the ejected bullet sprite and the sparks that come from hitting a wall or something with a bullet.

the locators place the effects on different parts of the model, with different models having different locators (if it's nonexistent it'll just be fixed in one direction regardless of where you're facing).

I'm not sure what the locator 16 is since it's usually the standard one for most items. i think it's the muzzle flash but i might be wrong since the propeffect locator for the barrel of the weapon is 15

items can have a maximum of up to 4 pyroeffects, starting from pryoeffect0 to pryoeffect3. try adding the lines

PropEffectsOnCondition3 = "2"
PropEffectLocator3 = "15"
PyroEffect3 = "186"

to a firearm.

it will add a flashlight beam that turns on when you equip the weapon.

merc assault rifle flamethrower

here's another one that's obvious: replace the pyroeffects on the mercassaultrifle with these:


PropEffectLocator0 = "15"
PropEffectLocator1 = "15"
PropEffectLocator2 = "15"
PropEffectLocator3 = "15"
PropEffectsOnCondition3 = "0"
PropEffectsOnCondition0 = "7"
PropEffectsOnCondition1 = "7"
PropEffectsOnCondition2 = "7"
PyroEffect0 = "57"
PyroEffect1 = "57"
PyroEffect2 = "171"
PyroEffect3 = "301"

then add


cGunProjectileInfoItem fs_proj
{
DR2 = "true"
PropToShoot = "nothing"
Support = "true"
}

to the end of it


ta da, instant flamethrower that lets you move around while shooting.

[tommah]

awesome I'll try that out...

the first thing I wanted to do when I found this site was make weapons, but took a bit of learning and this definitely helps.

Thanks Tab

really appreciate it

[tommah]

ok, it seems to have worked... but when I'm playing there's error's on the screen "wrong Model/texture merged with BIG file"

did I miss a step?

[tab]

naw that just shows up if you're playing on debug mode, but since i never play on that mode i don't care too much about that stuff

[tommah]

This is all interesting and I'm definitely getting strange results. But one thing I can't figure out is how to add an element to a weapon.

I was just trying for a basic weapon, add fire to the baseball bat. figuring it'd be easy so I took the pyro and prop effects from the flamingsword and noticed all weapons with "fire" have "fire = "true"" so I added that too... I've gotten the bat to look like its on fire "mostly" but doesn't give any fire damage.

just wondering it I'm missing anything.

Thanks!

[tab]

there's a modifier at the end of the weapons that determines it, fire= "true" just adds a propeffect or something i think. not really sure what all those do, like can_electrocute, and whatnot

but these always work for adding an effect on hit


cPropHitZombieInfoItem sb_hzombie
{
DR2 = "true"
PropHitZombieEffect = "0"
Support = "true"
}

the value of PropHitZombieEffect determines what the effect is, from what ive tried it only ranges from 0-2, other values make it either do nothing or do really stupid stuff

0 is setting things on fire
1 is freezing
2 is electrocution

note that these aren't the only way to have these effects: various pyroeffects and hiteffects(i think?) also cause these.
setting these just causes every single hit of any effect to have this effect, so even something like the fire extinguisher, if set to electrocute would electrocute first then freeze

[tommah]

awesome that's exactly what I was looking for, thanks for everything.

made a few weapons and having fun with them... might release them on here when I'm done tinkering