Adding a New Weapon?

[ElexTron Software]

Is it possible to add a new weapon for real MTA use? Like say, for example, edit the weapons.xml inside the freeroam resource and add a new weapon? I kind of doubt this because I think that the weapons are built into GTA instead of externally defined, but I was still wondering...

[dzek (varez)]

if you will rebuild GUI, and script a lot, there is a way to script new weapon. it will be a much to code anyway, but you can try, but dont except us to do it

[DiSaMe]

You can't add a weapon in a way that GTA would understand it as a new weapon. But scripting lets you 'edit' the weapons. Let's say you want to change damage inflicted by a certain weapon. To do that, you can attach player damage event to a function that checks which weapon caused damage and set player's health to something else. With Lua you can even add new functionality, such as this: