Is there any plans in The pipeline for this? As it stands, i can't see any way to manipulate liquid, and there's plenty of interesting things i wish to do with it.
I made a gun that can generate liquids (fire liquids) and they sit on the ground (as long as there is a wall behind them and a pool). If people actually want this i can make a mod for it. The liquids can easily be changed from water-lava-poison as well. The intended use for the gun was so i could make pools of water in my creations (example swimming pools). Though when i duplicated the item for people it ended up being used for EVIL lol.
That may prove useful! Not sure it is enough though. I need a way to remove liquids in-game programmatically for my purposes, but it's a start i guess!
It'd be nice for you to release it. I'm curious to see what you did (even just the code would be fine).
Its fairly simple, there is a projectile type called "waterballoon" it places water. i just added it to a gun and spawned it.
Yes. Can you make this and then make one that uses the lava/magma balloon thing as well (At work, forgot what it was called)? We'd be able to use this to fill up pools of water or lava near our creations.
Watch out, because the waterballoon projectile doesn't seem to work by default. If it works for you, cool, but normally you have to edit the .gun file to give a "power" value to the projectile. Something like this works fine: Code: "projectileType" : "waterballoon", "projectile" : { "speed" : 30, "power" : 0, "life" : 0, "color" : [255, 10, 10] }, Right now I'm trying to figure out how to add new liquids to the game. Simply adding a new entry to the liquids.config doesn' t seem to work - it just sits at the load screen and never loads. If anyone manages to add new liquids, post your code here! edit: Nevermind! It was a simple syntax error, it turns out that it is, in fact, trivially simple to add new liquids with the config file. Great! If anyone needs help with that I can post some sample code.
When I edit those properties onto a gun I get a Perfectly Generic Item. Are you sure we can't convince you to release what you've done as a mod?
Not a coder - I'd love a mod for this Water/lava/poison gun! I'm building a base on an asteroid in space and want to add lava and such to it =D
Sure, no problem. I figured someone else had probably already released a water balloon gun mod. I'll put something together today.
I put together a simple version, I'll release it properly on the site in a bit, but for now here it is, attached to this post. First, you'll need Tabula Rasa to craft the new items. Get that here: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?resources/the-tabula-rasa.114/ Install that and the Balloon Cannon mod, and you'll get 4 new recipes at the Tabula Rasa station that allow you to craft four different guns, each of which can shoot a different kind of liquid, including Water, Lava, Acid, and a new liquid, Medigel. Medigel is a liquid that you can breathe, and while immersed you'll gain a small warmth buff, slow health regen, and your hunger will stop increasing. It won't extinguish torches, either, making it useful for both mining and building. More changes coming.
