Is it possible to change which ammo bin is displayed on the screen for the weapons? (For example, with the Bryar selected, it displays power cells instead of energy units)

I posted this here because it looks like it would be done thru cog. If it turns out that it is not (which would be a big surprise to me), please move this topic to the Main Editing Forum.

Thanks.

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I am Darth Slaw.
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And part of the Nightfire mod team

You mean that you want the Bryar to use power cells instead of energy units?

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It was just an example. I just want to know if it is possible to change which ammo bins will be shown for the weapon (and how to do it) in the lower right corner. Another example would be to have the Rail Detonator display the ammo bin for energy cells. I can't seem to find anything that makes it possible to do this in the items.dat file, so I'm assuming the next best place to look would be thru cog. I wonder if maybe the kyle.cog has something?

If any help can be provided, that would be greatly appreciated.

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[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited January 26, 2004).]

Do you mean how, when you draw bryar, it'll show your energy cell count, and when you draw fists it'll just show '---' where your ammo goes?

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Yeah, that's it. Is there a way to change which one it shows?

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I am Darth Slaw.
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And part of the Nightfire mod team

yep, open up the weapon cog in particular and up top you will see

int bin=116 local

or somethign simlar. if you look in the items dat you will find that that particlar bin is for a particlar energy, jsut change that bin number to the one you want.
if i rember corectly the cog handels the bin on teh screen and the weapon ammo

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Wrong answer. Many weapon cogs don't even have int bin=(number) local.

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Be that as it may Checksum, the principle is the same . I'm still not overly sure why you'd want to use this method (just get a different ammo bin and display it in the HUD), but each to their own - I'm sure there's a good reason where Slaw's concerned

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What isn't obvious about the reason? The weapon uses different ammo, therefore it should display the ammo it uses.

I just thought of a fix.
What you gotta do is this:
#1: Find out which guns already use which ammo type.
#2: Set up some new inventory bins. This will be the *real* ammo.
#3: Have the weapon use the *real* ammo for the actual fire message, and set the ammo it displays to the same value as the real ammo.

So you'd be using, say, bin 116 for ammo for gun #2, and bin 117 for ammo for gun #3 - these guns both display bin 11 by default.

So you have them use bins 116 and 117, and every time those bins are changed you change bin 11 to equal those bins.
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[This message has been edited by Checksum (edited January 29, 2004).]

Used the forum search:

http://forums.massassi.net/html/Forum4/HTML/003407.html

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DP's idea was just like mine, except less efficient.

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I had forgotten why I wanted to know, and now I remember. I wanted my sniper rifle in my weapons mod (not Nightfire) to use different bullets than weapons 5 and 6. Now I can do it. Thanks.

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team