Thus spake Nick Stout <cyberman_64@HOTMAIL.COM>:
> Okay... I found a fire weapon snippet on the Circle snippet page, and
>I decided to adapt it. I am somewhat of a talented newbie coder, and
>this is the first time I have asked the Mail list for help.
> I am keeping the ACMD(do_load_weapon), but i'm trying to make it so
>whenever a violence pulse goes by, it decreases the ammo by 1.
> I do this with:
>GET_OBJ_VAL(weapon, 3) -= 1;
>
> Basically, i dont remember how exactly i put it, but it said if a
>fire weapon was wielded, (i put this in "hit") it would decrease the
>ammo by 1, like that.
Are you iterating through every object in the game every PULSE_VIOLENCE?
That's a bad idea. I'd suggest looking at the DG Events package and using
events for this.
> I compiled, and ran, and it crashed the mud. Why? Any gun code
>suggestion that would allow me to use guns that decrease ammo every
>pulse of attack?
For one thing, make sure the weapon is wielded by a PC (otherwise it'd
almost certainly be empty by the time a player got it).
Also, instead of
GET_OBJ_VAL(weapon,3) -= 1;
try something like:
GET_OBJ_VAL(weapon, 3) = MIN(GET_OBJ_VAL(weapon, 3) - 1, 0);
Because then you have the potential for the ammo value to wraparound.
--
Kevin Doherty, kdoherty@jurai.net
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
-- Rincewind (from _Eric_)
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