attachelements problem

[Derpy]

hello folks, im working on my custom weapon system and im planning to use createWeapon function and then attach it to a vehicle or a ped

however im experiencing a problem and i dont know how to avoid this problem

whenever i use attachElements function the element that was attached to another gets attached in exactly middle of other element and i cant change position of attached element after it was attached to another element. any ideas?

[Dealman]

Read about the function, you'll need to use the offsets.

[Derpy]

thanks i have tried this but im having a problem

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no matter what i do, i cant change weapon's rotation.

(tried on all weapons except projectiles)

Edited October 11, 2014 by Guest

[TAPL]

Use rotation offset arguments of the function attachElements.

[Derpy]

alright thanks

umm just been wondering.. is there a way how i could predict where bullets would go?

i'd like to make a crosshair or a 3d line or something to make it easier to fire but not sure how to get the point to which bullets will be fired into

[Anubhav]

  
getPedWeaponMuzzlePosition 
  

[Derpy]

yes annubhav that could be used for peds or players but what about vehicles?there must be something.. i have no idea how to make crosshair for vehicles which would move crosshair according to where the bullets would be shot at

[Anubhav]

See the laser by vick, I think it will help you out.

https://community.multitheftauto.com/ind ... ils&id=652

[John Smith]

Or he could just use event onClientWeaponFire and extract hit positions from there.

[Derpy]

oh right thanks

but i have noticed if i do this

setWeaponProperty(hydraMG,"weapon_range",number) 
setWeaponProperty(hydraMG,"target_range",number) 

no matter which number i put, minigun will shoot at same low distance and i cant increase distance..

[Derpy]

please help me guys i dont know why doesnt this change my custom weapon's property of maximum distance where it can shoot at..........

[IIYAMA]

(most) weapon property's don't work custom weapons.

I already found out that problem when I tried them on their release. They haven't fixed them...... yet.......

I also reported a related bug on 2013-07-13.

https://bugs.multitheftauto.com/view.php?id=7706

Those weapons where suppose to be serverside too........

But it seems they lost their interest in custom weapons.

It is shame.

[Saml1er]

Since createWeapon returns an element then how can you set it's property?

I mean first arguement of setWeaponProperty must be int/string. Does wiki example has a typo?

[IIYAMA]

You have to scroll more down: (client part)

setWeaponProperty 

Syntax (weapon creation) 
  
bool setWeaponProperty ( weapon theWeapon, string strProperty, value theValue ) 
  
Required Arguments 
  
    theWeapon: the weapon to change the property of. 
    strProperty: the property to edit such as damage per hit ( "damage" ): 
  
    "weapon_range" - float 
    "target_range" - float 
    "accuracy" - float 
    "damage" - int 
  
FROM VERSION 1.4 r6693 ONWARDS 
  
    "fire_rotation" - vector - For aligning fire direction with model 
  
    theValue: The value to set the property to. 
  
Returns 
  
Returns true if the property was set. 
Requirements 
Minimum supported server    n/a 
Minimum supported client    1.3.0-9.04555  

[Saml1er]

Oh sorry, my bad.

[Derpy]

Oh.

Well i guess that it will take MTA Devs 6 or more months to fix this due to their known laziness.

[Derpy]

Anyway if anyone is interested in doing something similiar to this like i did or what IYYAMA did, there is a work-around for it.

it's actually pretty simple (tested only on server-side)

setWeaponProperty(38,"pro","target_range",300) 
setWeaponProperty(38,"pro","weapon_range",300)