hey y'all
basically, i was wondering if you could make a gun shoot water?
if so, how would you do this? would you have to make the bolt texture water?
1) how would you make it like one continuous beam
2) or just like a normal rifle
thanks in advance

I'm not sure about the specifics, but!

To make a continuous beam (that acts like water) you would have to:

MAke the firing rate EXTREMELY HIGH so that you can't tell where one ends and the other begins.

MAke the beam out of rockets (wrist rockets would be the best) and color them blue.

Make the explosion effect the same as the water effects.

Make the Rocket trail texture the same as water.

Dann's Medic droid's electrolicious launcher is a good example. (for firing rate)

hmmm
thanks
which map of dann's was that weapon in?
and couldnt you just make the bolt texture the same as water?

The Cage Match.

IF you mean bolts like the Clonetrooper's rifle, I don't know if there is really a way to reskin those. (well, then again there must be).So yes you could.

If you mean like a sniper rifle, then the sniper bolts aren't very realistic water. They wouldn't curve as you shot.

But for a water gun, if there is indeed a way to reskin the clone rifle bolts to water, then you could use those instead of rockets.

yeh thats what i mean, the bolts from the clone's rifle (dc-15)
if anybody else could help, that would be muchly appreciated

I'm pretty sure you could reskin the bolts. BUT I don't think it'd work out too well unless you were to make it so that the scatter of the bolts is only VERTICAL. And then tone down the damage A LOT to make it fair. Take the chaingun, for instance. Really fast, impossible to fire one shot at a time, and it looks like a continuous stream.

carfanaticphil wrote:and couldnt you just make the bolt texture the same as water?

Tourny wrote:But for a water gun, if there is indeed a way to reskin the clone rifle bolts to water, then you could use those instead of rockets.

Tourny put it best in his first post. All you really want is a small stream of "rocket" (or shell) ordnances (with invisible rockets) and a good traileffect that looks like water. That's best because you can make gravity factor in and have a more realistic "stream."

You could also try using a beam ordance, like the award sniper rifle, redo the effect to look like water. The thing with the beam is it is more persistant (lasts longer) than the bolt so it would look more like a stream.

But the Rockets would be more obediant to physics.

If you are talking gravity a beam weapon also has a gravity setting.
And as water, ala water pistol in real life, shoots in a stream as opposed to drops it may be more realistic, but it is really up to carfanaticphil as he knows what he'd like to do with it and he would like it to function. We are just putting forth options.

Roger, point taken.