Making weapon using Energy

#1 Well, James, I can make you some wepons, I got Blender, Alebre, and Rhino.

#2 Thanks to Ron Nelson for help on energy draining.

You could be this in your weapons dataBlock:

energyDrain = 10;

Then at the top of your weapons onFire function you can put this:

//Don't fire if we don't have the energy
   if (%obj.getEnergyLevel() < %this.energyDrain)
      return;

   %obj.setEnergyLevel(%obj.getEnergyLevel() - %this.energyDrain);

Hope this helps.

#3 The weapon image datablock has specific settings for using energy

usesEnergy                      = true;
    minEnergy                        = 10;
    EnergyUsage                    = 8;

There is also a method of setting the drain in the image state if you want to drain energy at a specific state.

stateEnergyDrain[0]              = 3.0;

#4 But don't I have to somehow remove the Ammo Datablock? Or do I just remove it cold turkey, nothing in place of it?

#5 That depends on how you've written the weapon scripting. You can either remove the ammo item datablock, or there should be an obj.decInventory() call in onFire() that you can remove.

#6 So remove the ammo datablock as well as the decrement inventory function...?

#7 Is the energy the ammo? cause then you just have the inventory amount be the energy level, and when you fire, X energy is depleted from the inventory.

Laser gun sucks up 5 energy per burst. You fire laser gun, the inventory which is the "capacitor" is reduced 5 energy. I dont see a diference in how its drained.

#8 *confused*

check it, I removed ammo datablock and couldn't fire shit. So then I made it so it doesn't decrement. Sound good?