applying Weapon primary attack as secondary on different ones | Starbound | Page 1

round thunder Aug 19, 2024, 3:02 PM

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can i assign for example, the whipcrack ability on a different weapontype as alt-fire, and where would it get the animationframes from?

round thunder Aug 31, 2024, 12:49 PM

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nobody?

sleek matrix Aug 31, 2024, 4:40 PM

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What is your intention with this ability anyway? What exactly should it represent or do?

mortal echo Aug 31, 2024, 7:35 PM

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in my mod (RWM) I added the spear's rocket spear ability to a floran lightsaber - i did this by copying the original weaponability + it's associated lua and created a renamed variant of the ability

I then had to edit the lua to make it accept non-spear weapons .

So yeah, it's possible, but requires a bit of working with lua

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depending on the ability you should also be able to retrieve the frames from the weaponability

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the important part is that you get the elemental type right for the weaponability - this is part of the code for my lightsaber's alt ability

    "name" : "Rocket Spear ",
    "type" : "rocketspearalt",
    "scripts" : ["/items/active/weapons/melee/abilities/spear/rocketspearalt/rocketspearalt.lua"],
    "class" : "RocketSpearAlt",```

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notice that "type" and "scripts" point to my own weaponability file and lua and NOT the game's default weapon ability files

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and for most altabilities your elementalType is going to be a non-physical one, such as "elementalType" : "poison", - but not all

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some are physical

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takes some figurng out to see which are physical and not, but generally elemental type attacks have 4 different frames - one for each elemental type

round thunder Sep 6, 2024, 5:03 PM

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i wanna try it with a broadsword having whip as alt-fire

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i will try that tomorrow

round thunder Apr 26, 2025, 1:43 PM

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mortal echo takes some figurng out to see which are physical and not, but generally elementa...

so i picked this up again.... which functions did you needed to change on the lua so it accepts other weapons?
the thing is, i also need to access a second png file for the animation

mortal echo Apr 26, 2025, 1:48 PM

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i will have a look - it has been a while

mortal echo Apr 26, 2025, 8:44 PM

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I'm not sure if creating a new lua script/weaponability is actually necessary now that I am looking into it - that is just what I did

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at least - i can't seem to find where the ability is restricted to a type in the luas/weaponability files or weaponability config

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so maybe it isn't

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i would try simply including the wanted weaponability name in the altabilitytype and see if that works first

gray gust May 9, 2025, 5:38 AM

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wait, what if you did a whip sword instead? since swords dont require animation just some movements

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instead of sword whip, it'll be m1 for whip m2 for sword slashes

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