Using Energy as Ammo for Vehicle

#1 The onFire code is not right I guess. Needs something like this to suck the energy from the vehicle:

%player.setEnergyLevel( %player.getEnergyLevel() - 20); // 20 is the amount to suck at each fire

#2 I'm not sure exactly what a vehicle's 'energy' means, or even what you want it to mean. I would guess you want the engine to lose power when you fire a gun? Go and look in wheeledVehicle.cc and you'll easily find the place where engineTorque (from the datablock) is directly used to power the wheels. A quick and easy hack could be used to put an extra factor in there so that 'energy' affected this engineTorque calculation.

#3 @Sam

I'm pretty sure what he means is he wants the vehicle to have energy based weapons (lasers, etc) which would have a limited pool of energy as ammo, much like the player has. Not necessarily affecting the vehicle's operation itself, though not bad gameplay idea now that I think about it.

@Chad

I agree with Martin that the problem is most likely related to the onFire code. Make sure you're accessing the vehicle's energy and not the player's.

#4 Yes Chad, you must set the following in your weapon script.
This will add energy weapon and energy to your flyingvehicle or flyer

// datablock settings
usesEnergy = true;
minEnergy = 150;
//firing state energy used per second
stateEnergyDrain[3] = 150;

And you must have this in the bottom of your vehicle script.

function Drone::onAdd(%this,%obj)
{
%obj.setEnergyLevel(%this.maxEnergy);
%obj.setRechargeRate(%this.rechargeRate);
}