Plasma Gun

#1 I havent done one yet.

But you can do it in script basically.

In your key map you start a schedule on the key down - one that every X milliseconds fires the gun you hold in the hand. On the key up you cancel that schedule.

You might want to optimize that, so that the schedule sits on the server side, and your key map code just sends a "startFiring/stopFiring" on up/down - instead of spamming the server with fire commands.

Shouldnt be too hard to implement

#2 How's about a bit of example code to illustrate Mr. Lund's suggestion :)

// In ~/client/scripts/default.bind.cs:

function SomeBinding( %val )
{
    if ( %val ) // key pressed (signal to start)
    {
        // ... do something interesting ...

        // schedule another call to this function, this is
        // our recursiveness which allows for the whole
        // "hold key down repeats action"
        $SomeBindingID = schedule( 50, 0, SomeBinding, 1 );
    }
    else // Key released (signal to stop)
    {
        // cancel our last scheduled action to stop the
        // recursive calls.
        cancel( $SomeBindingID );
    }
}

#3 Yeah, that makes some sense. Thanks, guys! I assume I'm at least partially correct about the graphical part of it? using particles, i mean.

#4 A while back someone implemented a laser beam, similiar to what you are talking about.

Ok, I found them. The new google search on GG is really nice. :)

Eric Risser's Laser
Torque Laser Beam resource

Now, I haven't tried either of these yet, so I can't say for sure if this is what you are looking for. But they might be worth checking out.

I hope you get it working!

#5 Oh! Thanks Drew! I had implemented the "Torque Laser Beam Resource" before, and it was not exactly what I wanted. Eric's, however, looks perfect. How the heck did I miss that?