This is what I got so far for the sprite. It will be a hold fire to charge, and will discharge automatically after it gets to a certain point.

I'm also working on a larger version as a bunker defense module.

Keep an eye out.

Wow, that sprite looks much better than the old one. Also judging by the end of the animation, the lightning wont be just a blast, but it will keep emitting lightning for a second? Atleast thats what the animation would look like its doing.



Funny, I'm doing a weapon that does the exact same. Its fires a dense laser blast.
Dunno about you, but my gun will reset the shot if the user releases
the trigger before it can get to the full charge.

I remeber when Amrobotics made the original back in build uhhh... 12 or 13 I believe...
It was teh ♥♥♥♥.

But that looks alot better then his sprite, hopefully it will work better too :D

I'm hoping for Lua-ised arcing from that sprite... what's your plan for it?

He needs to return.
His mind might explode when he sees what has happened.

Yeah it'll keep sparking for a bit. As for manual release, it will cancel the shot. Not much sense charging a bolt if you can shoot it by canceling it out.



Not sure what lua-ised arcing would do. What did you have in mind?

I think he means the bolt jumping from one target to the next.

Ah. If LUA allows that, I don't see why not.

I need LUA to switch the sprite from the charging animation once it's gone through the first 4 frames. It will switch to a seperate animation of a looping charge with the sparks flying.

Before anybody kills you, Lua isn't an acronym. Anyways, sprite looks good, hoping to hear more as to what added awesomeness you'll add on to the weapon itself.

Yeah man, it's Lua. It's not an acronym. Lordy.

I don't even mod and I know that.

Scrub.

Not sure what he had in mind, but I though of branching pixel streams using some sort of complex algorithm that would look like a lightning... completely particle based.

Which would be laggy and slow, since the maximum speed would be one update per frame.

I have an idea actually.
Have a large string of different electrical arc sprites.
And have the game like, draw one between the gun and a nearby target, and jump to random frames (so it's not just an animation).

Possible?
Good?

I really don't have a problem spriting multiple electric arcing bolts for the muzzle flash, unless you guys wanted this thing to use coding to jump between targets like chain lighting or something.

I think they mean use Lua to make dynamic, random lightning going from the gun to the target. Not just a set sprite(s). Not sure if that is possible though. Chain Lightning would be awesomesauce however.