Guns with a shotgun effect?

Trainwiz

I’ve seen guns in some mods that have multiple lasers per shot, that is to say, a single mounted gun fires several lasers at once.
I thought this useful for a shotgun type gun, but I have no idea how to do such a thing.
Also, if such a thing is possible, can I make the gun fire multiple types of lasers, like a sort of magical happy rainbow beam of sparkly death?
And could I do this with missiles as well?

Xarian_Prime

you add extra HPfire hardpoints to a gun model… but there’s a catch…
You wont hear weps fire unless you code it into the FX … and that has to be timed to the FX lifespan as any longer and it loops infinitely… and belive me… thats nasty…

As for a rainbow gun… haven’t seen anything like that yet… i doubt its possible with the current code.

Ogu

I’m reasonably sure this works with missiles. Again, the sounds seem to be an issue.

Unless you do something fancy (could FLHook do it?), you are limited to one [Munition] per [Gun], afaik.

Trainwiz

Sound doesn’t matter that much, I’m moreso going for the general effect.
Other than that, thank you, it seems to work well enough.

Exisus

So, you’re going for something like the Rave Cannon from Battlezone 1 and 2?? Sounds interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cXc4nW6wmw

Trainwiz

Sort of, I just wanted to try to have a gun that fires multiple beams that have multiple variations of damage, obviously if the whole pack hits the other player it bangs them up badly, but a clever player can dodge most of the most harmful lasers.
That’s an awesome weapon though…

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Additional info:
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=832&forum=27&post_id=6270#forumpost6270
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1973&forum=30&post_id=17693#forumpost17693
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=809&forum=7&post_id=9635#forumpost9635

Ogu

And unless I’m mistaken, if you set the damage of the gun to 1000, and have a gun with 2 HpFire’s (giving you two lasers), you’ll do 2x damage (if all shots hit), 3 HpFire’s will give you 3x damage (if all shots hit), etc.