Hmm I wonder if you can apply Lua on a gun through a scene. If that is possible, I smell a LordTim's portal gun in the mods section soon.

I wouldn't be surprised. With every new feature, someone finds a new work around.

It's not possible to create anything Lua related without a console command or scene based scripting. Period. There's just no way to connect a script to a gun's behaviour.

Hell, we can't apply Lua to BUNKERMODULES, let alone HDFirearms.

Believe it or not sometimes there just plain ISN'T a workaround.

So now all of a sudden you CAN'T do EVERYTHING with Lua?

Once we get scripted weapons, this should - in theory - be possible.

Maybe you could do something that involves
Taking the rotation of the actor's head, and
when a console command is typed it spawns
and applies a velocity to a Gibbing Lua TDEx.

CORRECTION you nitpicking ♥♥♥♥.

There's no way to make something happen somewhere with Lua besides areas and console commands IN THE CURRENT BUILD.

Jesus christ.

what about local trace?

Well, if we made a scene with an area that covered the map, we might be able to check against the helditems of the units. If one equated to something like "SUPER LAZAH GUNNN" then we could have a bunch of TDExplosives and so on rain from the sky if he fired a special "SLGBeacon" object, perhaps? The Lua might be able to check to see if there are named MOSRotating's in the mapwide area.

So the gun basically fires a useless blob on every map unless it's this one in the campaign, where it rains bombs if you do fire. Making it possible to have Scenario-Only weapons, like C4 detonators or something.

So, with the recently found objects list, I'm sure we can find a way to find a way to make a portal gun, even if it can only be used on specialized portal scenes.

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well, you could loop through all the actors in the scene, and check if their Pos is within given coordinates - makeshift areas, I suppose.

But I'm not sure how you'd make the gun itself without scripted weapons.


EDIT: Actually, it looks like there's an Area.AddBox method. Looks like areas can be added on the fly. Nifty.

Aha. Then we can trace the XY of the shot MOSRotating, and add an area on the fly in the scene. Then we can check against it and do the math! It's possible! Go Tim, you're the best man for this job!

Hey Lord Tim,
Remake Endurantism with these in.
Sincerely,
Me.

Pssh. That is a dumb idea. Endurantism with portals? Pssh. No one would ever do that. Pssh. Keep your lame ideas to yourself. Psssh. Psssssssshhhhh.

Also, everyone stay away from Endurantism. It's for your own good.

*Claps hands

Do it tim! Do it!

And, you know, if then statements. They ain't efficient like function calls, but they work.