Modding Help [Question] - Making a Tech that shoots a projectile?

As the title implies, I want to know if making a tech that shoots a projectile on use is currently possible, and if yes, a quick explanation of how to do so would be super cool indeed!

Thanks in advance!

 

I'm guessing that's a no?

 

You can use the world.spawnProjectile() function. There is a nice example of it in the vanilla mech tech on line 135

 

This is it
world.spawnProjectile(mechProjectile, tech.anchorPoint("frontGunFirePoint"), tech.parentEntityId(), {math.cos(aimAngle), math.sin(aimAngle)}, false, mechProjectileConfig)
Do you know what the parameters are? Projectile, MousePoint?, ?, Angle?, Angle?, false?, Config?
All I'm sure about is the first 1 being which projectile.

Also, How come i Can't find the projectile in my files? Where is it stored?

 

The parameters are

Code:

world.spawnProjectile("projectilename", spawn position, ID of the entity that spawned it, angle given by its cos and sin in a table, don't know, table of configuration parameters)

The projectiles are usually found under assets/projectiles.

 

Managed to find where it was. Is there a way to spawn it at coords like. player + 2.5 X and +2.5 Y

 

I believe that tech.position is the current location of the player. So using this as a base you can create a new position

Code:

    local position = tech.position()
    position[1] = position[1] + 25
    position[2] = position[2] + 25

and then use that as the spawn position

Code:

world.spawnProjectile("projecile", position, tech.parentEntityId(), {math.cos(aimAngle), math.sin(aimAngle)}, false,projectileConfig)

If you want it to always have a static angle you will need to change the {math.cos(aimAngle), math.sin(aimAngle)} part to a static angle

 

Alright, thanks!