Tutorial MOD-TUTORIAL 3: How to make your own Gun (OUTDATED)

Thnx dude! got it working with Gimp

 

Quick question. Can you set a gun to shoot a projectile that's already in the game? Like monster attacks?

 

probably, i wouldn't be surprised if you can, i don't know much my self but i would have to guess it's all in the projectile frames and animation code, in my theory of course, i could be wrong.

 

You could make some pretty sweet weapons with all the wacky projectiles in this game.

 

oh yes, very much so, i have tried my hand at making a gun, although im hardly any good at modding, i think it turned out all right,

it actually does work pretty well for a first time mod, could be better haha.

but i know others out there who are better will be able to make some very impressive weapons, though it would be better if you could animate a weapon so it moves around in your hand or a light blinks, shoot multiple different projectiles or perhaps some thing on a gun moves or rotates(apart from the attack animation/muzzleflash), such as a rotating minigun barrel when used, (i did try to solve that one, somehow turned the gun invisible, hahaha) but the possibility's are endless at the moment, and someone will eventually work something out.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/oshfu69ipg42ja6/Vss.zip

Could you please download and have a look at it? :/ It's "working" but when I try to shoot it, it crashes the game with no error message. Help!

 

okie, solved it.

 

nice, sry i had no time yet to help...

 

its ok, but I need your help in one more thing actually, the gun consumes too much energy, how can I balance that?

 

both the energy consumption per shot or the class modifier could bring your energy usage down.... don't forget to recraft it if you change something in the configs...

 

class modifier?

 

tried to edit those, not working, I only got it to work by downloading another modder's mod which lowers the energy consumption for each weapon.

 

the level counts too i think and ah i meant in the .gun:

Code:

...
"classMultiplier" : (this let's you additionaly turn down the energy cost for strong weapons)0.4,
...

 

Yeah, lowered that, no level now, and also the second thing you said in the .projectile - not working.

 

hmm and you recrafted the weapon? otherwise it wont work...

 

Whenever I craft it I just get a "Perfectly Generic Item", what did I do wrong?

 

look into the starbound.log there should be an error message....

 

where can I find that?

 

in the main folder:
"Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\starbound.log"

 

Error: Could not instantiate item '[supergun, 1, {}]'. MapException: Key 'power' not found in Map::get()
009D0C85 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/core/StarMap.hpp:15)
00606EE6 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/game/items/StarGun.cpp:299)
... (3)
00462382 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/frontend/StarCraftingInterface.cpp:288)
004B4ACB (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/windowing/StarPaneManager.cpp:65)
0043513B (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/frontend/StarMainInterface.cpp:847)
00404E2F (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/client/StarClientApplication.cpp:572)
00407337 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/client/StarClientApplication.cpp68)
0040A214 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/application/StarApplicationBase.cpp:199)
00407C30 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/client/main.cpp:48)
004DBBD1 (c:\SDL-1.2.15/./src/main/win32/SDL_win32_main.c18)

Im sorry that im such a n00b
what does all this mean?