your own weapons

[liamthespy]

inspired by the homemade weapons thread,
what if there was a program that let you create your own weapons?

you would have options like

trail:decide if it has a trail,what color and how much comes off the shot
color: color of the shot
size:size of the shot
explosion?:yes or no
explosionS:explosion size
debris:any particle that comes of shot (like glue or spider)
damage:damage shot gives.

and some others. though this program would have to cost money so it doesnt put blitwise out of money for expansion packs.

[zetablack]

This also has ben talked about many many many times you could also put in how many projectiles.

[Zone101]

Yeah it has been talked about many times.. I mentioned it myself.. and it makes me wonder.. why not? It'd be an amazing idea.. it'd solve all the moaning about when's the next weapon pack coming out? etc.

[Zwaken]

Like I said before, there's already a program to make weapons with. It's called C++ and it takes a while to learn...

[Was It Me?]

I'm personally not convinced that the weapons are programmed in C++ at all. I think that it could be some sort of "scripting" language specific to Pocket Tanks. I really don't know though.

[Zwaken]

hmmm...that makes me curious.

[Zone101]

Nah it is C++.. but it's stupid learning a whole computer language just to make weapon packs lol.. it'd take ages!

[Was It Me?]

Nah it is C++..

I seriously doubt it. The reason being that you generally compile C++ programs into executables - machine code, and I just can't see that working with the main engine. I would say C++ if you got an updated executable with every expansion, but otherwise...

Anyway, see the files in the weapons folder? Those don't look like compiled code, they more look like "compiled" scripts. I could easily come up with more reasons to support my hunch, but I think I'll stop now. ;)

[zetablack]

well if we just had like the code for like gamma blaster we could probobly mess around with it and get somthing cool

[Xap]

I'm personally not convinced that the weapons are programmed in C++ at all. I think that it could be some sort of "scripting" language specific to Pocket Tanks. I really don't know though.
I'm agreeing with Was It Me?, it makes sense that Pocket Tanks weapons would have a specific coding for them to work. I've seen this in many games, such as Orbz and Wxsand.

[Everlast]

Here is your answer...

http://forums.blitwise.com/forums/showpost.php?p=652&postcount=8

[Was It Me?]

That's not quite an answer as to how the weapons are made though...

I don't think that some of you guys are quite understanding how C++/coding works... I hope Mike W. will come and clear this up.

[liamthespy]

WOOT WXSAND I MAKE LOADS OF MODS( sorry for off topic)

yes but consider it would put blitwise out of money for making thier expansions.... know what i mean?

[Zwaken]

well if we just had like the code for like gamma blaster we could probobly mess around with it and get somthing cool

lol, I highly doubt that we would get something cool if we just messed around like that.

[Xap]

Whoa!! Liamthespy, when did you get here? How did you find here? My name on FSG forums is Zev747! Wxsand is awesome! Now I'm just being spontaneous!

[liamthespy]

that is sweet , pm me on fsg later :D

ill check those programs like brilliance,, im pretty crafty myself :) hehehe....

[newbage247]

"I have an I.Q. of 160, I tried to learn C++ and THAT's when my head exploded"
~Java Junkie
WXSAND

[???revived]

IQs are overrated...

Their either too generalized or too specialized... I don't know which... >_<

[Zwaken]

I dunno what that means but I have an IQ of 125...is that low? I think it is because I get mostly Ds in school. GPA was 1.7 this year! New high score!

[???revived]

Lol 125 is pretty good, but it really doesn't mean anything in the real world...

[Everlast]

I took an IQ test and they wouldn't even let me see the results unless I paid $7...