Tutorial MOD-TUTORIAL 3: How to make your own Gun (OUTDATED)

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It was showing up before I started moving files and folders around. It just wouldn't shoot.

Going over the path locations to see if I misplaced a , or something.

 

Could you post the file structure and maybe contents of the text files?

 

HELP it lets me craft my gun but the icon doesnt show up and it doesnt let let me fire it plz help

 

My weapon needs 2500 Energy, and my character only has like 1100. I already edited the projectile and the corresponding "bulletexplosion.config"-file.

But lower the energy amount of "energyCostPerDamagePoint" : 0.01, and "explosiveDamageAmount" : 0.01, did not bring any effect. I am again not able to fire the weapon. WTH is this? Before the update I had none of those problems.

Edit:
Setting the amounts to zero also brought nothing. I now "cheated" my energy up to 50000 and energy regeneration to 5000 to get it to work. But that can't be the solution.

Edit2:
Thanks to User "ato'90" in the thread "Bypassing "gunLevelEnergyCostPerDamage"" I was able to resolve my energy problem by adding the "classMultiplier"-attribute to my gun. =D

 

you can look for the error in the starbound.log file

if you fire and it crashes just look in the starbound .log file it shows you the problem...

oh ok nice

 

Ok, so I sort of found a fix for my problem.

I just downloaded a gun mod ( Plasma Cutter by: Chieron ). The read me file tells you to place the contents in the Starbound/assests not the Starbound/mods (mods_go_here) folder.

Started the game, and it works. Placed my own gun mod in there, same results. Doesn't fire. So there's an error on my part.

Replacing images, sounds, and effects from Chieron's mod till I find what I did wrong.

EDIT:

So I decided to download another gun mod. This one is placed in the Starbound/mods folder and works. Will be dissecting this one till I find my problem.

 

>< not sure what im doing wrong.. gun wont render in game and crashes the game with no error

the gun is formatted properly as far as I can tell, but in the game it is totally invisible and when fired crashes the client with no error, can someone help me please?

here's the gun mod
and an image of the weapon as well



https://www.mediafire.com/?zd9m5gu9mc9hspo

 

my new uploaded file is in the mods folder too

 

To those of you with "It wont shoot" turn down the power OR add "classMultiplyer" : 0.5 to your gun, it will lower the engergy costs, higher power guns require more energy

 

yea i have the same issue after the last patch i'm already trieing to find a solution...

 

Damn... I keep getting a generic item and the recipe won't even show in tabularasa with a "mod" tag??? The .gun, .animation, .projectiIe, .frames files and sfx all seem to be in order. I wonder what it is I'm doing wrong? Time to double triple check everything...

 

Is there a way to set it to where you can only use the gun if you're wearing a specific item? I want to make it so that you can't use this gun unless you're wearing a crown.

 

I'm having issues with this. I'm trying to use guns as kind of a placeholder for a few special powers (i wanted to go with tech but I think that requires a lua for each one). When making a unique gun the <name>.projectile file calls a <projectile>.config file like this

Code:

"actionOnReap" : [
    {
      "action" : "config",
      "file" : "/projectiles/<name>/<name>.config"

// I also tried this

"actionOnReap" : [
    {
      "action" : "config",
      "file" : "/<modname>/projectiles/<name>/<name>.config"

The logs are telling me that it's trying to search the assets folder and not the mods, when it does, it can't find <name>.config and crashes the game when I use the "gun". I need to know how to get .projectile to point to the .config. The mod mimics the assets file structure and they are both in the same file so it shouldn't be that hard, the game is reading the .projectile so I'm confused.

*I've tried doing this both by .modinfo and by placing into the assets (changing file structure and paths where needed) both ways have the same end result.

**So I deleted those two lines so it could just proceed with the next set of actions. That seemed to fix it, but without getting to use the effects from the .config

 

I'm having the same problem as you guys. Gun's completely invisible.

 

Does anyone know what handPositon and firePosition are relative to? I am having some difficulty aligning these.

 

where you hand holds the gun and where the projectile leaves the gun

 

How do you add a mod to your player.config. sorry i'm new to the whole modding of starbound

 

you shouldn't have to but i have a terrible error where i have not found a solution for... i'll look into it tomorrow...

 

i don't know sorry

yeah i have a similar issue right now


it constantly tells me my image has to be absolute.... and it seemingly dosen't matter where i place it

 

Are you using the .modinfo method? If so I resolved all of my "must be absolute" errors by exactly copying the assets file structure. Even if adding new items not just changing existing assets. I too was having the issue with my .png files not being put to use like some above. Making sure every path and file structure was like that of the assets folder resolved those errors. That's when I ran into the post above, after that I couldn't get energy to be consumed. Now, after double triple quadruple checking every file, path, and comma I finally got it to work.