Hideki defines it as thus:


My question is, say I use bin 85 for another weapon. Do I use SelectWeapon(player, 11) --the 11th weapon, SelectWeapon(player, 85) -- or do over 10 weapons work at all?

-Tazz

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-Tazz

I don't think you can have 85. Check the items.dat to see where the next set of items appear after weapons. I think if you set it for 45, you'd be throwing keys...
Most probebly crash.

/Edward

Yeah, probably.

*cough-datamaster-cough*


The way Hideki defines SelectWeapon(), it seems that if you have bin 85 flagged as a weapon, SelectWeapon(player, 11) would work. But I'm fairly sure that SelectWeapon() wants a bin number and not a index number for a seperate weapons array. It's worth testing though.

And although 85 doesn't seem to be used, you should start with 116 for your own bins.

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I also concur that I believe that a bin number is wanted by the cog language, rather than an index value. After-all, would, so many additional mods that create new/different weapons really use a numerical indexer? - Imagine realising that you wanted to create a new weapon/item inventory and having to increment all the bin numbers by one to "shuffle" everything along lol

That said, that approach would then affect all other scripts referencing that items.dat file... Ignore me now - I've gone past useful information and into the "waffle zone"...

Hope this helps

-Jackpot

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Ya, I just got Datamaster. I see that SetCurInvWeapon(*) is not limited to the original 10, but does it do the exact same thing?

-Tazz

[This message has been edited by Tazz (edited October 07, 2003).]

As far as I'm aware, it's best to use SetCurInvWeapon(), before implementing SetCurWeapon - the reason being that once you have set the inventory to the current weapon, SetCurWeapon() applies the fire, activated, and deactivated messages to that inventory bin (thus, it makes life easier, if you set it first...)

That said ... to actually answer your question , the verbs are similar, but I've found (could be just me...) that SetCurWeapon() gets confused firing the wrong bullets from different guns (as well as subsequently subtracting ammo from the wrong inventory bins), if SetCurInvWeapon() is not included in the related/applicable code section.

Having mentioned all this, it does partly depend on how your "items.dat" file is set-up, what with the "flags" settings...

Hope this helps (even if just a little - I apologise it's not clearer or more detailed...

-Jackpot

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But two things stand in stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own"
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