RELEASED Arm Cannons 1.0.1, Pleased Giraffe

I don't have a lot of interest in arm swords, but it isn't overly incredibly difficult to learn this. If you have someone helping you, it's even easier.
Why not try to learn some basic modding and, you go for it?

Edit: Actually, Kawa's Felin race starts with a 1-hand Katar that doesn't follow your mouse cursor, but still slashes where you aim. You might be able to work off of that if she doesn't mind.

 

Oberic updated Arm Cannons with a new update entry:

Eureka!

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Sounds good....

 

Does anyone want one-handed arm cannons?
I could either make these one-handed with reduced damage, or make alternate clones that are one-handed with half the damage.

Also I just realized that the arm cannons are about 30% stronger than most other two-handed guns at the moment.
They do require spamming to fire to achieve that damage, so I don't know if I should reduce them slightly (but leave them still a 15% stronger) or not.

Personally I like them stronger. But yeah.

 

Oberic updated Arm Cannons with a new update entry:

1-handed, a couple of buffs, new bits!

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Oberic updated Arm Cannons with a new update entry:

small type crash fix.

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Interesting concept I'll be watching...

 

um it work with the gun assembly mod but it the customized arm cannons cant charge shots and justs shots the weak shot

 

gun assembly mod? I haven't used it, but I've heard of it.
If the charge shots are non-functional with that mod, there is nothing I can do.

The arm cannon primary and secondary fires are linked together in the ".generatedgun" file, so are the staff-style charge indicator and the ability to charge the shots.

randomly generated guns with charge shots in vanilla were not meant to work at all (I have to modify projectiles into a minimum of two .projectile files for the charges to even do extra damage), so it makes sense that a mod that allows you to build guns manually wouldn't be compatible.

Eventually I might put in a way to build/purchase randomly generated arm cannons so you don't have to hunt/cheat for them, but it isn't a priority at the moment.


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Arm Cannons currently do not have shuffled up ammo, this is for testing purposes and will remain static pairs atleast until I have more custom/balanced charge and normal shots in place.
Fairly happy with the normal shots, but I still have a few charges to tweak, a gas-bullet to make, and other things like that. Also I found a hadouken projectile in the files and I simply must have it.

 

could maybe add something like a railgun ammo type?

weak shot= small beam

charge shot= large beam

 

That's what I did

 

Oberic updated Arm Cannons with a new update entry:

Colors, gun sprites, some new or changed ammo

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Oberic updated Arm Cannons with a new update entry:

New projectiles, translucent crystal gun parts.

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I'm not 100% sure how patch files work, but assuming I have the common.treasurepools.patch file fixed properly, the arm cannons should be spawning, next update has them appearing at high level tiers as well. I'd rather not upload for one tiny change, so in the meantime... Maybe sacrifice a gun or two in exchange for spawning in a cannon?

 

How isn't it? Couldn't you just alter the hand position within the .generatedgunfile?

 

Oh, thats possible now?

 

Yep, I would also assume you could use a blank mask.png to hide the arm, kind of like what they did for headgear they head the char hair.

 

How do you set the arm? And i doubt its possible to use a mask.png in a weapon file. Starbound was quite unflexible in the past with such kind of things.

 

Code:

"handPosition" : [4, 0],
  "firePosition" : [4, 4],

Hand position moves the object it uses (X,Y)
Fire position has were the bullet and muzzle flash will be generated at, if you move the hand position you might want to move the fire position too so that it doesn't look awkward.

 

Well, thats something totally different and I'm of course aware of these commands. What we want to do is to put the busters at top of the fsleeve/hand instead behind it (modifiyng z layer/index). The only items that does that right now are shields afaik. It would have been possible with a mask file that covers armor/body aswell - but like i said - i dont think thats possible and would be kinda a "dirty hack".