Dual Mounted weapons help

#1 Yes it is absolutely possible! And you are correct about the weapons slot. I believe your focus should be in the server/weapon.cs file. The inventory system is set to always use "$weaponSlot = 0" when mounting shapes. In sever/weapon.cs find the "Weapon::onUse" and "Weapon::onInventory". This is where the engine inventory system actually mounts and unmounts images. In here you can do some checking to decide if you wan to unmount a particular shape or not. Ordinary I would give example code but I'm short on time this morning. Let me know if you come up with anything new. I'll check back later this evening!

#2 Thank you. I have been looking at the script and changing it but I only get it to show but I can't use it.

#3 This is something to do with triggers (as in $Trigger0, $Trigger1, etc) - look at how alt-fire is handled, perhaps preempt the alt-fire for your off-hand weapon fire....

#4 Alrighty then. I think I see from your video what you're trying to do, but correct me if I'm wrong. You want the sword and pistol mounted at the same time but to use them (both with the same hand) when two different keys are pressed?

If this is true then we need to know a couple of more things. Namely, how are you currently handling your weapon mounting? Images usual have a single mount point specified that they will use, but in your video I see the sword switching from a back mount position to the hand (and the same with the pistol on the side). How is this accomplished?

#5 I have 3 weapon mounts, one on the back for the sword, another on the thigh for my custom gun and the reg mount0 for the guns of the soldier. Its 2 animations on for the sword and one for the soldier and I merge them with script in the state machine for the weapons thats why they look a little off.

I want both mounted and use with different hands not with the same hand.

#6 any one know why this function doesnt work anymore?

function PlayerData::onAdd(%this, %obj)
{
// put the crossbow in the player's hand
%obj.mountImage(CrossBowImage, 0);
};

#7 Mounting code in your onAdd function may be getting overwritten by the default inventory system. In server/game.cs you'll find the code that handles setting up the main inventory items as well as mounting the player's initial weapon with "GameConnection::loadOut". Furthermore, "onAdd" is called on the PlayerData name that is defined with the player's dataBlock (eg "Armor" for the default player setup). Check server/player.cs to see how "onAdd" is called in there. It might need to be "Armor::onAdd(%this, %obj)".

So you already have the player switching to and from the weapons, so now you just need to fire them. In client/default.bind.cs you will see that the "altTrigger" function uses "$mvTriggerCount1" for the alt fire. This will fire the weapon mounted in weapon slot 1. So if you mounted the gun using "mountImage(GunImage, 0)" and the sword with "mountImage(SwordImage, 1)" then the left mouse button would fire the gun and the right mouse would use the sword. Note the the actual mountPoints don't really matter. Only the actual weapon slot you choose when mounting the image.