I tried Hidekis railgun cog, but it only works when the projectile hit a thing...
so i wrote my own. The problem is: mine only works sometimes...

here it is:

# Jedi Knight Missions Cog Script
#
# railgun
#

symbols

thing bullet local
thing dummy local
thing boom local

template shot=+rail2 local
template spooky=ghost local

vector pos local
vector dir local
vector ahead local
vector temp local

flex factor local
flex len local

message removed

end

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------

code

removed:
bullet = GetSenderRef();

pos = GetThingPos(bullet);

dir = GetThingVel(bullet);

len = VectorLen(dir) * 2;

factor = 1/len;

temp = VectorScale(dir, factor);

ahead = VectorAdd(pos, temp);

dummy = CreateThing(spooky, bullet);
SetThingPos(dummy, ahead);

boom = CreateThing(shot, dummy);

Sleep(1);
DestroyThing(dummy);

return;

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

end


the cog is linked to a normal projectile in static.jkl and the second projectile (the one fired in the cog) is the same without the cog linked (since i dont want to create an endless loop)...

[This message has been edited by zagibu (edited February 15, 2002).]

oh yes, another problem in hidekis cog is that GetThingLVec is returning 0 for the z value, so the bullet only flies horizontally...

BTW: i also tried to create a reflection cog,
but it's hard to calculate it only with vectors...any idea about that maybe?

last thing: the touched message doesn't seem to return a wall...it only gets called when sender touched a thing. How do i get a reference on a wall hit by a projectile?

i must add that you can actually see the projectile getting created behind the obstacle, but in most of the cases it is immediatly destroyed after creation...
any solutions?