Multitarget weapon fire creating

[sun1404]

I'm trying to make a multitarget weapon with multiple kinds of projectiles. From my knowledge, sysCreateWeaponFire cannot automatically acquire target, let alone multitarget. What function should I use for this? Or how should I implement sysCreateWeaponFire so that it can acquire a target for itself?

[RPC]

ObjTarget is the target for the weapon fired by sysCreateWeaponFire. This means that if you have a weapon that has maneuver= and use a ship as the target for sysCreateWeaponFire (you might have to use sysfindobject to find ships through code) you can find a way to have that weapon fire multiple shots and target.
(sysCreateWeaponFire weaponID objSource posVector dir speed objTarget [detonateNow] [weaponBonus]) -> obj

Alternatively you can just have a weapon have

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multiTarget=		"true"
autoAcquireTarget=	"true"

and just use sysCreateWeaponFire to fire the weapon and see if they multitarget.

[digdug]

From my knowledge, sysCreateWeaponFire cannot automatically acquire target, let alone multitarget.

In the past, yes. Today, sysCreateWeaponFire can fire at targets. You "just" need to iterate the spaceobjects near your ship and fire a sysCreateWeaponFire at each one up to the number of projectiles you want to fire.

In pseudocode:

sysFindobject ships --> list of ships
for i 0 (number of shots)
(syscreateweaponfire shot (@ (list of ships) i))

where (@ (list of ships) i) will return the spaceobject around the ship (ordered by distance) one by one for each shot

[sun1404]

Hmm.... sounds like martian to me... I don't actually understand the code, yet. I can only at most understand vaguely what each block of code I see do. Anyway, multitarget virtual weapon may be too hard right now. I'll come back and upgrade the weapon later...

And I don't think making a multitarget version of a weapon and then sysCreateWeaponFire it will have the multitarget feature. Only the graphics and damage get imported, it think, since sysCreateWeaponFire requires us to give informations of speed, direction, and bonus. I'll try it and see if it works.

[PM]

Don't give up, it is possible.

[sun1404]

Well, making a multitarget version and sysCreateWeaponFire it really doesn't work. At least I learned a bit more about functions(are they in TLisp?) even if it failed. The mod I'm making should be released soon, but unfortunately will not incorporate all the ideas I had.