Drop weapon / remove weapon

[onaid]

hi all having a little trouble with removing / drop a weapon. basically i would like my player to walk through a trigger and have it remove the weapon so player no longer has the weapon if that makes sense.

 

i have tried attaching weapon pickup lua to a invisible box with a blank prefab but to no avail

 

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxWM6ILP8Pf9Ml8yX2NjdzQ3QUU

 

 

above is the project link test.rar

 

thank you in advance

[martyj]

This is roughly how I do it.

C++
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// Place in Start() function for instance caching
Entity* leftHand = playerModel->FindChild("LeftHand_OrWhateverMyModelSays");
// Wielding
Model* leftHandItem = Model::Load("SomePath")
leftHandItem ->SetParent(leftHand);
// Unwielding
leftHandItem ->SetParent(NULL);
// DELETE if not using again!

Lua?
---------------
// Place in Start() function for instance caching
self.leftHand = playerModel:FindChild("LeftHand");
// Weidling
self.leftHandItem = Model:Load("SomePath");
self.leftHandItem:SetParent(self.leftHand)
// Unweild
self.leftHandItem:SetParent(NULL);
// DELETE if not using again!

 

Btw I think your map is missing some details.

 

It doesn't contain any player object.

 

Are you using the FPSPlayer.lua script for your player?

[onaid]

Hi Marty j , thanks for your reply yep i am using the fpsplayer.lua script for player , so i pasted the script you gave me in the fps player.lua im not sure if i got it totaly right as i get this error

 

 

 

also there are no childen in the fps player model ? i s this what you mean when you say there is no player object ? so i cant choose to findchild lefthand

 

sorry pretty newb at script , thank you for your help

[Roland]

The error is caused by using c++ style comments // in Lua. Replace those // with --.

Regarding the player object. It's the object you attached the script to.

[onaid]

thanks Roland now i get this

 

 

 

 

 

not sure if this helps but this is what i had in my head was to change the FPSplayer.lua so i could enable / disable weapon

 

 

 

 

again sorry newb at script

[Roland]

The player model is the entity the script is attached to, so it would be self.entity:FindChild. I'm at my phone now so I can't give any more detailed help.

[onaid]

thanks for your help Roland but im not sure where to change the script would

 

self.entity:FindChild

replace

 

playerModel:FindChild

 

?

 

also the FPSplayer model has no children in the scene tab ?

[Josh]

If you look at the Script:AddWeapon() function, basically you've got to reverse what that does:

function Script:AddWeapon(weapon)
if weapon.index==nil then
	weapon.index=1
end
if self.weapons[weapon.index]==nil then
	self.weapons[weapon.index]=weapon
	self.weapons[weapon.index].player = self 
	self.weapons[weapon.index].entity:SetParent(self.weapontag)
	self.weapons[weapon.index].entity:SetPosition(self.weapons[weapon.index].offset)
	if self.weapons[weapon.index].rotation~=nil then
		self.weapons[weapon.index].entity:SetPosition(self.weapons[weapon.index].rotation)
	end
	self.weapons[weapon.index].entity:Hide()
	if weapon.index>self.currentweaponindex then self:SelectWeapon(weapon.index) end
	if self.sound.pickupweapon~=nil then self.sound.pickupweapon:Play() end
	return true
end
return false
end

[onaid]

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/entity/entityhide-r181

 

can i do somthing with this ?

[onaid]

sorry guys just total newb when it comes to script super keen to learn just need some help here

[onaid]

ok guys all thanks for your help , big thanks to the living legend Paul Thomas who totally got this sorted, mate you are a bloody champion.

 

here is script for fps player.lua if you want to do the same.

 

http://pastebin.com/D12H7Qbi

 

 

Paul Thomas living legend

[Paul Thomas]

You're welcome man. I'm glad I was able to help.