Tutorial MOD-TUTORIAL 3: How to make your own Gun (OUTDATED)

hey thank you very much i'll try that and if it helps i'll update the tutorial...

 

yay i know now where the problem is the files have to be in another subfolder... the structure doesn't matter...

PS: i updated the example file too...

 

Good to know

 

Hello Everyone

gun is Works perfectly

testgun

download

http://www.mediafire.com/download/48um7hkx0qricgl/testgun.zip

player is no "inspectionKind" : "gun",

player is Do not know gun

"inspectionKind" : "gun", delete

muzzleEffect = fireanimations, fireSound both

I can only help those who want to create a mode to give up.

Good luck Everyone

 

i already uploaded a working template but thanks

 

SUCCESS!

My gun is back.

First : Thanks to Ghoul159 for updating this guide.

Second : I still have no idea what I did wrong.

The only thing I could find that was wrong was my coding of the .GUN file.

Does it matter where you place lines of code? I think this was messing up my mod. I put my GUN file side by side with Ghoul159's for comparison. They were identical, except for some of the lines were in different spots.

EDIT:

Found the problem. After the patch the GUN files added new lines of code. The revolver GUN file in the assets folder does not contain these new codes. Using the revolver GUN file as a template was screwing me up.

 

Complete gun

http://www.mediafire.com/download/zw4472j7jhspsjl/testgun.zip

"inspectionKind" : "gun",
"kind" : "Shotgun",
kind = weaponType

good luck

 

add line

"inspectionKind" : "gun",
"kind" : "Pistol",

 

For some reason, I cannot even get it in my crafting menu. I followed everything to the letter. I originally tried to bring the Buster into the game, but then I tried to just do the Revolver and even still, it's not in the crafting menu.

 

Did you add the recipe to your player.config? Would you be willing to upload your mod so we could take a look at it?

 

Well it took a couple goes, but I finally made a working revolver.

Now I can take what I've learned here, and craft some weak guns for people to use against the UFO boss / Giant Jelly, so they don't get Occupational Overuse Syndrome using the bow lol....

 

Hi !

I'm french and i have a problem with your tutorial . I would create a gun but if i launch the game with mi mods i have this message

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/51/1387449530-sans-titre.png


mi mods

thank for your help and sorry for mi bad english

 

You have a couple errors in some of them. Your .gun file should look like this

Code:

{
  "itemName" : "Pistohap",
  "inventoryIcon" : "Pistohapicon.png",
  "decription" : "La main de Hap prenez garde!",
  "shortdescription" : "Pistohap",
  "dropCollision" : [-8.0, -3.0, 8.0, 3.0],
  "maxStack" : 1,
  "level" : 32,
  "rarity" : "Legendary",
  "inspectionKind" : "gun",
  "image" : "Pistohap.png",
  "recoilTime" : 0.1,
  "handPosition" : [-5.5, -3],
  "firePosition" : [12, 3],

  "fireTime" : 0.5,
  "twoHanded" : false,

  "projectileType" : "PistohapProjectile",
  "projectile" : {
  "power" : 48,
  "color" : [10, 255, 10]
  },

  "muzzleEffect" : {
    "animation" : "/Pistohap/muzzleflash/PistohapMF.animation",
    "fireSound" : [ { "file" : "/Pistohap/sfx/Pistohap.wav" } ]
  }
}

Your .modinfo file should look like this.

Code:

{
    "Name": "Pistohap",
    "version": "Beta v. Offended Koala",
    "path": ".",
    "dependencies": []
}

In the first file, you were missing two commas. One between the "shortdescription" line and the "dropCollision" line. Another between the "power" line and the "color" line. In the second file you were missing a comma between the "Name" line and the "version" line.
You can paste your things into http://jsonlint.com/ and it will tell you if there are any errors with it.

 

thanks you very much !

i start in modding this is not easy

new problem


variant exception: No such key in variant::get("name")

screen : http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/51/1387451978-sans-titre.png


edit : problem fixed just a string error

 

Right after shooting, Game crashes.. it could be the new update.. i think.

Anyway, with the Bubble Gun or Brain extractor example it wont crash.. BUT, it has no sound than..

Anything is wrong with the Sound/ Muzzle effect..

 

Open your Starbound logs and scroll near the bottom. It will tell you what's going wrong.

 

Did not tell me anything.. only things that worked.

 

Did you check it right after crashing the game by firing your gun? If so it should have told you something near-ish the bottom.

 

did everything right but when i open starbound it doesnt load up!!!

 

I seem to have everything working FINALLY, besides my game crashing when I shoot the gun.... So many coding errors on my part, holy hell. This is a trying process, I've been at this Megaman X Buster for about 6 hours now. So much testing and revision.
Any main reasons this happens?