thank you, Pac-Man. vgj
1. i've almost sorted the structure out, but stuck at weapon specification. i wanted to code a little utility for sorting files in .pxl. i thought it's a pretty easy task, because each 'Entry' has 'Length' field, and i can read and remember the whole 'Entry' with the necessary amount of bytes of 'Data', then move it wherever i want in the whole pxl-file, but!.... :| when 'Type'=0x08, meaning that the 'Data' should be 'Weapon' there is no 'Length' field! :O and 'Weapon' alone lacks the 'Length' field! so my code need to check all those weapon types, activation types, all stuff to know how much bytes to remember... damn! i don't want to get hands dirty in it! >_<
i wish i could sort those fckn files in libs. when one develops a lib it would be helpful: if you want to add a new weapon, there wold be no need to extract all images/scripts/weapons to add all again in order you want. can you code this? :)
2. the remark about weapon 'Activation flag' you wrote: if Activation by != Space, meaning this.Activation by
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- Crosshair: Not used
... that's not right actually, if i'm correct. i've noticed, that if this 'Not used' parameter is equal to:- 1, then when the weapon is launched uzi-bullet sound is played and uzi fire animation is played at couple of frames
- 2, then weapon launch is grenade-like. worm hand throwing appears as well as throwing sound is played
- 3, -//- bazooka-like
- 4, -//- similar to 1, but minigun instead
- 5, -//- similar to 1, but shotgun instead. this one is especially funny if you set it, for example, to bazooka: you set a fire power, then you release space, then worm starts to load an unexpectedly appeared shotgun, and shots bazooka with shotgun :D lol
- 6, -//- -//-, but handgun instead
- 10, -//- -//-, but longbow instead
so the point is, if one is making a launcher-weapon that is activated by crosshair and it's a grenade or some throwing bomb then 'Not used' parameter should be set to 2, otherwise 1 in most cases. i've noticed this thing when was playing with CWeaps7. Curtis made a Sling Shot that is a launcher weapon and it doesn't emit any sound when setting fire power. i thought it is weird and looked in weapon settings.
3. i wait eagerly for for new editors :)
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) I publish completely new and graphical editors for PX files, a submodule in Worms.NET Studio.
