Hi, I'm trying to make a bow and arrow (I know skyhammer already did this, but I like to make my own stuff if possible) but that's irrelevant. I want to know how I could make the Ewok Spear (which I will use as the arrow) stick forever. If it is not possible in this way does anybody know how I could do it?

Tourny wrote:Hi, I'm trying to make a bow and arrow (I know skyhammer already did this, but I like to make my own stuff if possible) but that's irrelevant. I want to know how I could make the Ewok Spear (which I will use as the arrow) stick forever. If it is not possible in this way does anybody know how I could do it?

on the ordenance file change stick to 1 i think

You can give the ordnance a high lifespan, but then you wouldn't do any damage. You could also theoretically make an explosion .fx with the spear as a mesh, and just have its lifetime be infinite, but that would be goofy because then you'd have a bunch of spears all over the place and eventually you'd just overload the game with particle effects.

Uh-oh. Now I'm confused. Was Deviss right or wrong?

I think Deviss was right on sticking, but Mav was right about how making the "arrows" last forever could overload the game.

I think I know why you feel this'd be neat, but trust me when I say it wouldn't be worth the effort.

Well forever would be a bit silly (for reasons above), but its not hard to do:

StickPerson = 1
StickAnimal = 1
StickDroid = 1
StickVehicle = 1
StickBuilding = 1
StickBuildingDead = 1
StickBuildingUnbuilt= 1
StickTerrain = 1

This will make it stick to everything except props.

These values will control various things:

LifeSpan = "0.4" //how long the arrows last. If you want them to stick in people, just put it up to like 8.
Velocity = "34.0" //arrow speed
Gravity = "1.37" //arrow gravity. Combine with speed to control the 'arc' in which the arrow is fired

TrailEffect = "com_sfx_contrail" //I personally didn't use this, but vyse did for hyrule field and it looks good + helps you aim.

Do mind that, overtaxing the game aside, all the arrows would be horizontal, since the engine only moves a point, not a line.

Thanks, Sky. But what firstbeetarian said I didn't understand fully. All arrows will be horizontal. Do you mean that even if I aim striaght up it will go forward?

I think he means that when the arrows would stick, the stick angle would always be parallel to the ground.

I suppose I wasn't too clear. I meant horizontal to the barrel of the gun. If you shoot at a 45 degree angle, the shaft would stay at a 45 degree angle throughout it's flight and thus land that way, without the point into whatever it hit.

Frisbeetarian wrote:I suppose I wasn't too clear. I meant horizontal to the barrel of the gun. If you shoot at a 45 degree angle, the shaft would stay at a 45 degree angle throughout it's flight and thus land that way, without the point into whatever it hit.

That's not true, certain ordnances can be assigned gravity and will react by rotating the ordnance mesh as it follows the line. See Vyse's "Hyrule Field" as an example.

I stand corrected, that's good to know.

Just remembered: you need to use this line in your weapons ord odf. (I think)

AlignVertical = "0"

Setting it to 1 makes the arrows fly out sideways (ie not point first) which looks ridiculous.

ROTFLMOB!!! That just saved alot of problems. Thanks, SKy.