Short demo of a few weapons from Worms Reloaded and Worms Unlimited

[bonz]

Originally Posted by StepS

yes, if dud mines are enabled in scheme, then some can be dud

Also allow random mines to work on that launcher!
Instant fun.

[DarkLord22]

Originally Posted by SgtFusion

He said invisible mine launcher, not instant.

I know, I was talking about 2 different weapons.

Originally Posted by StepS

invisible, not instant.
however you guessed right: i was going to make both
the invisible one won't be instant
it won't be like bazooka: it still reacts only on worm
Prefuse: 1 sec.

Ok cool. Keep up the awesome work StepS.

[bonz]

Any news on the Sheep-on-a-rope and the laser?

[StepS]

Ok, I decided to release the three launchers i made: Mine launcher, Random Mine launcher, Instant Mine launcher.
Delay before fuse is 1 sec instead of 4 (because 4 is too much for a launcher), which also ensures that you can't just directly shoot full-power an enemy with instant mine. I can increase it however, if needed.
If dud mines in scheme are enabled, the mines shooted by these launchers may sometimes be dud too.
A replay here (px needed!).
I didn't do the Invisible mine launcher yet, because it requires some other technique (if we simply replace a mine sprite, all mines will be affected, and not only the ones who were shooted by the launcher). I'll release it once I fugure it out.
Also I didn't make a custom canon sprites (I took the one of bazooka); if they are needed - write me.

Download and discuss here.

[_Kilburn]

Oh geez sorry guys, I keep switching projects and right now I'm working on something that has nothing to do with Worms, so that means I haven't touched PX in ages.


In the meantime, just have my current version. Unzip both folders in your main WA folder. It contains libraries that will probably overwrite the default ones, so don't be scared and overwrite everything, nothing bad will happen.

[StepS]

Originally Posted by _Kilburn

Oh geez sorry guys, I keep switching projects and right now I'm working on something that has nothing to do with Worms, so that means I haven't touched PX in ages.


In the meantime, just have my current version. Unzip both folders in your main WA folder. It contains libraries that will probably overwrite the default ones, so don't be scared and overwrite everything, nothing bad will happen.

Awesome! That is a very nice surprise from you!
However, there is a compilation error at the laser gun:

PXS : CError : TRZ:Process : fault to process symbol PlaySoundAtPos@PCCSoundFile@fffB
at Lib: wp_lasergun.pxl: Script: lasergun:91

What is that PlaySoundAtPos function? It seems like producing stereo sound at the specified coordinates, but I can't find it anywhere (pxdata, etc). The same for UpdateSoundPos

PS: the sheep-on-a-rope has a zero count, and it has a bug if you launch it from air (from a jump for example). Btw, when on a rope, it has a bigger gravity than when flying, is that ok? And also a bovine blitz should better handle the camera position
Either way, excellent!

[Thurbo]

I was wondering about that too but _Kilburn said high ninja sheep gravity was totally on purpose.

[_Kilburn]

Originally Posted by StepS

Awesome! That is a very nice surprise from you!
However, there is a compilation error at the laser gun:

What is that PlaySoundAtPos function? It seems like producing stereo sound at the specified coordinates, but I can't find it anywhere (pxdata, etc). The same for UpdateSoundPos

PS: the sheep-on-a-rope has a zero count, and it has a bug if you launch it from air (from a jump for example). Btw, when on a rope, it has a bigger gravity than when flying, is that ok? And also a bovine blitz should better handle the camera position
Either way, excellent!

Yeah PlaySoundAtPos is a function I made for stereo sound. The archive contains an outdated version of utils.pxl, that's why the error occurs. I updated it, so redownload it and everything should be ok.

I'm aware of those issues, except the "zero count" one, what do you mean by that exactly?
Also high gravity ninja sheep is on purpose, apparently it had higher gravity in Worms DC as well, which kinda makes sense since a sheep is heavier than a worm, and I thought it would be a bit overpowered if it was as maneuverable as a worm.

[StepS]

Originally Posted by _Kilburn

Yeah PlaySoundAtPos is a function I made for stereo sound. The archive contains an outdated version of utils.pxl, that's why the error occurs. I updated it, so redownload it and everything should be ok.

I'm aware of those issues, except the "zero count" one, what do you mean by that exactly?
Also high gravity ninja sheep is on purpose, apparently it had higher gravity in Worms DC as well, which kinda makes sense since a sheep is heavier than a worm, and I thought it would be a bit overpowered if it was as maneuverable as a worm.

well, there are some bugs.
if you drop a sheep from a jump - you will not be able to shoot after the first shot (unless you press enter and then spaces again).
if the first rope shot didn't attach to a wall, the sheep will not be ropable anymore.

PS: is your utils merged with the last px update one (with the keypress revision)?

[_Kilburn]

Originally Posted by StepS

well, there are some bugs.
if you drop a sheep from a jump - you will not be able to shoot after the first shot (unless you press enter and then spaces again).
if the first rope shot didn't attach to a wall, the sheep will not be ropable anymore.

Ah yeah I forgot about the limited rope issue because I tend to test everything with infinite ropes. Normally there's a variable which controls the number of rope shots left but it stopped working after an update and I never bothered finding a fix for it.

As for the sheep being bugged when dropped from a jump, I still don't know how to fix it. Keep in mind that the sheep on a rope is the hackiest piece of code I've ever written, and honestly I don't even know how some of the workarounds I've used work exactly, all I know is that they work, more or less.

[StepS]

Ok. the sheep on a rope should have another place on the 5th row (it currently occupies Super Sheep which is rarely used even). Maybe that will be hard with the wa power tweak (i hate how if you put a launcher on the mine's position with power tweak, it gonna **** up), but anyway. a count in px scheme then maybe [edit: i see that the "Sheep" is free].
And the bovine blitz - it should have a better camera handling, for me it only points the camera when it fastly appears, and then the camera doesn't follow it, and i have to scroll manually.
These weapons really impressed me. Keep it up!

[Pac-Man]

Too bad I can't see that there's no "aiming" sprite for the Ninja Sheep when the worm still has it in hands.

[StepS]

Originally Posted by Pac-Man

Too bad I can't see that there's no "aiming" sprite for the Ninja Sheep when the worm still has it in hands.

i'm gonna make one

and the drown

[Pac-Man]

Better leave that task to the boss designer of this weapon...

[_Kilburn]

Yeah.


don't touch my stuff

[raffie]

I've been testing your updated weapon pack, and i'll post problems that i've encountered in the hope it will help with debugging. I've copied the weapons from the scheme you provided into my existing Kaos scheme.

- Sheep-on-a-rope: Works only when set to unlimited, I cant get a sheep to fire a rope when set to 1

- The new Lib of the Bunker Buster seem to crash the game, whenever the BB starts to drill. This didn't happen when I hosted a game on WN and played by myself with no other players joined.

All the other updates done to the older weapons seem to have improved them, the new features to the fan are awesome, the Lightning Strike doesn't show errors anymore and looks very cool now, the Bowling Balls look like they handle gravity a bit more naturally, and I like the newly added sound to the Tazer.
Can't wait for updates

[StepS]

strange. i didn't have these problems, all is fine to me

btw, bunker busters go through an indy terrain

[Pac-Man]

I also don't have any of those problems. Is your PX up to date?

[raffie]

Hmm okay, maybe it 's a conflict with other PX modules or something went wrong with copying the weapons into my existing scheme... (my PX is up to date)

[StepS]

No, modules cant conflict. Maybe a problem with your spacebar? is it remapped, etc? Weapons detect the physical space press, or i dont know

[raffie]

Spacebar isnt remapped or anything. I'm continuing testing...

[hoppi]

Yeah I had same problems when I tried to combine it with a kaos scheme using PX scheme editor. I think Bowine Blitz and Sheep-on-a-rope had only 1 in "shoots:", I changed BB to 3 and sheep to -1 (infinite ropeshots, for fun). Now they work fine, except sheep sometimes has 0 rope shots.

Very nice weapons

[franpa]

Originally Posted by Thurbo

Just like a mine launcher, only that you get the impression the worm wouldn't carry a weapon at all! How cool is that? (°.°)

He means an "Invisible Mine" Launcher. A launcher that shoots invisible mines.

[Thurbo]

Good day

I was being sarcastic

[Pac-Man]

[Pac-Man]

Hi there, I optimized the PX editors and fixed some nasty things in them... because noone seems to visit the PX forums often enough I think I post my link here http://px.worms2d.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=421 to catch attention X)

[Obn3g0n]

Nice work Pac-Man. Will your new editor by any chance be more user friendly? Ie.. less programming type stuff, mouseover explanations, etc?

[Pac-Man]

Well, no mouse over explanations. I don't know everything 100% by myself. That's what the wiki is for.
But the interface will be Visual Studio 2010 like :P

[Pac-Man]

Here's a set of dumb weapon sprites I use for my even dumber scheme:
http://pacman.highfsb.net/px/weaponimages.zip
*preview here when the server is up again :S*
Feel free to use them anywhere, in your scheme, as a picture to go on other peoples nerves or as a print on your toilet paper, whatever.

[franpa]

crashwa.png implies a very nasty weapon that crashes your opponents game? :P