bow mod?

[MrThebuilder3]

is it possible to add an projectile weapon?

[MarkTraceur]

Oh, yeah....you'd just need a tool crafted, an event for right-clicks with that tool, arrows craftable, then add an entity with a forward velocity and a downward acceleration. The last part--detecting a collision and causing damage to whatever collided--would probably be the hardest.

Join the IRC channel and ask about it! :)

[MrThebuilder3]

ook that's going to be fun

[Cobbster217]

Mark i need your help

[sdzen]

you reputable yet cobbster?

[Cobbster217]

you reputable yet cobbster?

yes i am sdzen

[ironzorg]

is it possible to add an projectile weapon?

Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to add this kind of projectile in the game (yet):

• Handling projectiles with LUA is plain stupid:
  
  • You can't reliably detect collisions with it
  • It takes a lot of CPU to make them move, what if 20 players throw an arrow at the same time towards the sun ?
• Even if arrows were added to the game as nodes, you wouldn't be able to fire them in any direction you want (only along the x/y/z axis)

Unless what I put in the above list is what you want, you are going to have to wait my friend !

[MarkTraceur]

• Handling projectiles with LUA is plain stupid:
  
  • You can't reliably detect collisions with it
  • It takes a lot of CPU to make them move, what if 20 players throw an arrow at the same time towards the sun ?
• Even if arrows were added to the game as nodes, you wouldn't be able to fire them in any direction you want (only along the x/y/z axis)

Of course, the collision detection is the problem, but a simple register_on_collision method would fix that problem.

CPU? Are you manually moving entities each step? Set their velocity forward, set their acceleration downward, and step back.

Node arrows are just silly :)

[kahrl]

I'm currently working (slowly) on the collision code. So far there is cleaner and slightly more precise player movement (client-side), and the ability to walk up half-height steps as well as stairs. I will ask celeron55 to merge once I fix the remaining performance problems (big chunk of sand or gravel falls => massive lag). To solve that I planned to combine all collision movement per frame into one big function call, that might even make detecting object-object collision simple (besides arrows, this would mean you couldn't simply walk into primed TNT).

register_on_collision sounds like a good idea. Would it be enough if the callback was only called for object-object collisions, not object-node collisions? For arrows object-object would be enough. On the other hand, if object-node collisions were also reported, you could probably even handle fall damage in Lua. How do you think the interface of register_on_collision could look like?

[celeron55]

Currently there is no way to get the player's camera direction from Lua, which makes making bows impossible. That'll go on the to-do list.

[MrThebuilder3]

oh:(