New angle of fire?

[Azerath]

I've tried messing with joints, but they don't want to work. Is there any was I can just change the angle of fire in the script?

Such as..
Before:
Straight.
After:
45 Degrees.

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[rkynick]

I didn't know fire had angels.

[Azerath]

Osht. Thanks Ryk.
Know how to change its angle*?

[Azerath]

Help me. Please.

[rkynick]

So wait, what? Do you want to change the angle the bullet is fired at? i.e fired diagonally upwards/downwards from player, or something similar?

[Azerath]

Yes. I'm already tried messing with the joints, too.

[MrPickle]

You can change the angle by changing the velocity of the bullet when it's fired. I don't know if there's a bit in the projectile datablock to tell it what angle to fire it at.

[exidyne]

This should work:

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%scalar = -1; // -1 is down 45 degrees, 1 is up 45 degrees.
%vec = %obj.getMuzzleVector(%slot);
%vec_x = firstWord(%vec);
%vec_y = getWord(%vec, 1);
%vec_z = (-%scalar) * (%vec_x + %vec_y);
%projectile.initialVelocity = (%vec_x SPC %vec_y SPC %vec_z);

Where %obj is the player shooting the projectile, %projectile is the projectile, and %slot is the slot where it is mounted.

[Azerath]

Thank you. But where would I put this?

[MrPickle]

IIRC place it in the onFire function of your weapon.

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function yourweaponImage::onFire(%this, %obj, %slot)
{
//blah
}