[Mod] Lightsaber Arena 1.4

[Mauganra99]

You're right, saber changes don't update anymore

This means colour, style and on/off aren't updated at all, and the game-sync is badly broken. It all worked fine before... Fixing now

EDIT: AARGH EVERYTHING DIED!

Forcepowers don't work either :/

MORE EDIT:

Well, it seems everything works fine in hot-seat play (two on one computer), but netcode has decided to die a swift death. All network_player_event()s stopped working, which has a negative effect on the synchronisation. Or, in different words: 'netplay is badly, badly broken'

[Diabol]

The first release was working fine...

[basara]

Thats what happens when you release without one last betatesting

[sindalf]

I'm missing force grip, like the manipulator

[Diabol]

yeah it's good idea but he should fix that errors first

[marek_sp]

my ideas:

  Weapons:
    lasergun

  Forces:
    shield:

                /
                |----------o
                \           L

    where:
      'o' and 'L' - worm

      '----------' - aiming line

      /
      | - shield, probably in saber colour or green
      \

    it'll use mana while activated = longer activated, more mana used

[Mauganra99]

Mmm, a shield of some sort is a good idea!

I was thinking of adding the Dark Forces (or any other Star Wars game) shields maybe... But I think a shield forcepower is better, instead of just another equivalent of health. Maybe make it consume force (when available) when hit instead of health, like the energy/mana shield in Diablo? The 'directional' shield is a good idea, I think it could look really nice. And maybe an all-around shield too

As for the errors: I've got an idea of what might be causing it, will look into it later. Making capture the flag has given me lots of good idea on how to code things in LUA (hey, this is my first ever LUA project!), which might be helpfull.

[TTFTCUTS]

Yay!

Hopefully LA will be back on it's feet soon :>

Jedi ctf anyone?

[Matmas]

I think the previous version 1.0 has better handling becouse of so many additional keys in 1.1
some additional keys (1-2) are good idea but 4 is for me too much

[Mauganra99]

Most of them aren't needed, though. Saber style and colour can be set once, and you don't really need to change it after that. Just map 'm to some far-away section of the keyboard . Disabling saber isn't really that important though it might give you an edge in force-usage, so only the forcepower key remains as being a truely important key. So that's one new key

Also, you don't have to dig or ninjarope anymore. That removes some.

Anyway, what I thought to be the problem didn't turn out to be it. But I'll just rewrite part of it (again), using about half the amount of player_net_event()s now used. CTF really gave me some niceish insights, and rewriting is the best way to clean code up.

Now I'm kinda busy with studying and stuff, so haven't got much time to actually write scripts. But the 'thought process' still runs in the background. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I really thought the second incarnation worked fine.

EDIT: I'm trying to add a menu for saber styles (or guns... maybe), so the choose saber style button will be removed too.

[Gliptic]

Fantastic mod, just some suggestions on the Lua code:
* Lua has "elseif" you know :O.
* Instead of "if foo then else blah end", you can do "if not foo then blah end".
* I would put all the light-saber particles in a single table with numeric indexes instead of having lots of vars.
* In lightsaber_arena.throwin g_throw , you set a global variable (saber) when you should really use a local variable.

[Mauganra99]

Heh, thanks a lot for taking a look at my code

2 and 3 are added already, but 1 and 4 will surely be used.

And I'm using X % N now, as you recommanded in chat. It's a lot better than the floor(X/N) == X/N method.

Netplay seems to be slowly revived again. The code will be a lot shorter now, which is good

[Dflies]

Yipii! This mod is teh pwnage. Hopefully you'll fix it soon mehopes.

[ZanderZ]

O M F G
Why didn't I try this mod before? this is awesome!

[marek_sp]

Sabers rulez!

This mod is awesome! I love it but why bots always win?