Attachment Points

[BlowingKush]

Anyone had any luck using attachment points?

I am trying to create a unit (bullet) on the weapon attachment point of a Marine gun. (the end of the barrell)
There is a trigger that returns an attachment point, dunno how to use it.
And what reference the attachment points, Bone = 24? tried all 3 names


how would you go about triggering this?

 

[kioSk]

Looks like Bone 24 of the rigging "inside" is at the nozzle of the gun. Which Trigger are you talking about?

 

[BlowingKush]

UnitGetAttachmentPoint

It is under Unit.

All I want to do is create a unit at the end of the barrell

what in the fuck do you pass this function?

I see in the data editor where you can add attachprops id and key but I cant make sense of how you use these values with
UnitGetAttachmentPoint ()

This should create a Baneling at the end of gMovementUnit (my marine) gun barrell, but it erros out in the game.

2 days and ive made 0 progress

 

[13lade619]

tried the "e_attachWeapon" string or any of its derivatives?

 

[BlowingKush]

ya e_attachWeapon didnt do anything either

 

[Ancanus]

Have you tried just Weapon?

That's how I attach longer energy beams to my dark templars using the Attach Actor to Unit trigger.

 

[BlowingKush]

Have you tried just Weapon?

That's how I attach longer energy beams to my dark templars using the Attach Actor to Unit trigger.

After testing overload119 Stalker demo, using a projectile system, i may just switch to that instead of using a unit as a bullet.

Not sure if a marines gunfire is an actual projectile or an effect though.

 

[Sensang]

After testing overload119 Stalker demo, using a projectile system, i may just switch to that instead of using a unit as a bullet.

Not sure if a marines gunfire is an actual projectile or an effect though.

It's an effect. There is no projectile.

 

[Ancanus]

After testing overload119 Stalker demo, using a projectile system, i may just switch to that instead of using a unit as a bullet.

Not sure if a marines gunfire is an actual projectile or an effect though.

And I believe that overload199's stalker demo still uses an unit as a bullet. (;

 

[13lade619]

every projectile is a unit.

 

[Sevion]

Wrong. Every projectile is an Actor.

 

[Ancanus]

This actually depends if you define the projectile as the visual entity that is projected from the model's weapon, of the set of miscellaneous characteristics that define it.
Although, you can have projectiles without actors.

 

[BlowingKush]

And I believe that overload199's stalker demo still uses an unit as a bullet. (;

if it was a unit he would need to create it, but he doesn't. He simply orders his unit to attack

 

[Sensang]

Wrong. Every projectile is an Actor.

lol. Wrong it's a square not a rectangle! :nuts:

if it was a unit he would need to create it

the weapon creates the projectile unit -.-
just look at the data editor. He is attacking a point with the weapon of his stalker. The conversation in the thread was about the projectile which is a unit in the data editor. He explained to us how to make projectiles collide upon units. Since i recaptured what he did I'm 100% sure he uses projectiles/units.

 

[13lade619]

Although, you can have projectiles without actors.

really?... i thought EVERYTHING needs an actor to actually appear in-game.

 

[BlowingKush]

This means that the cat is both dead and alive until the box is opened right?

 

[Ancanus]

really?... i thought EVERYTHING needs an actor to actually appear in-game.

Indeed, but you don't always need projectiles to appear in-game. (;

 

[BlowingKush]

Seems to me like projectiles without Actors is kind of like masterbation
its fun and all, but in the end, you would rather be having sex.

 

[Sensang]

Seems to me like projectiles without Actors is kind of like masterbation

this.