Adding new weldable

[brickyt]

Thank you so much @Phazorknight for Cogito! It's helping me make lightspeed progress on my prototype!

I would like to add a new weldable (machine gun) and would I just copy the pistol scene and modify it? Or is there a better way of going about it. Cheers!

[Phazorknight]

First of all, so sorry that I haven't replied sooner! To be honest I just never even looked at the Discussions tab.

The wieldable setup has changed a little bit with the latest updates, so just a quick rundown:

A fully functional wieldable would need 3 parts:

1. The inventory item of the wieldable -> This would contain all inventory logic plus stuff like which ammo it uses etc.

2. The pickup scene of the wieldable -> This is used to add the item to the inventory (or when the player drops the item). This does not have to include any wieldable logic, so can be set up same as any other pickup like the potions or batteries.

3. The wieldable node inside the Player scene. This is what contains the weapon logic and gets animations applied.
   Please be aware that I'm planning on making this a bit more modular, so there might be some changes coming soon, but the weapon logic scripting should stay as is overall.

Hope this helps a bit!

[ac-arcana]

I'm working on adding my own wieldables right now. One thing that strikes me as odd is that there is one animation player for all wieldables. Instead, shouldn't the wieldable itself be responsible for its animations?
A function could simply be called on the wieldable script when it is equipped, unequipped, used etc. There could be a base class for this.
Maybe we can even make a wieldable template script?

[Phazorknight]

Yup, you're absolutely right. Gonna try to work on this today (see #5 )

[Phazorknight]

I'm gonna close this as there is now a new wieldable weapon that his hitscan based.