SMAC - Sinewave Modulated Adjustable Cannon

View YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=mv9F7GQxObk

A totally new way to blow your enemies to hell! Everyone LOVES a pulse-orb cannon... how about THREE? This unique gun fires not one, not two but three mini-pulse-orbs that follow a sine wave pattern that YOU CAN CONFIGURE! This gun doesn't have a clip so it feeds from your AR2 ammo stash as it needs to. Press reload to bring up the in-game configuration panel and tweak the gun to work HOW YOU WANT IT TO. Presets save your settings for later, allowing you to create hundreds of different configurations to suit different situations! Targets all in a line? Make it fire tighter and faster! Targets all spread out? Design your own riot control preset! It's even possible (with a few careful settings and adjustments) to create a pulse-orb barrier!

Enough reading already, GO HURT SOMETHING!


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-ancientevil



I think the zombies are having a good time... I know I am...:D


Inset: Oooooh! Pretty! Main: I like shooting Breens in a line, three at a time...*hums a tune*


I'll post a better explanation of the controls later. For now, just fiddle around and don't forget to be VIOLENT!

2 thread?
Looks awesome

Yeah - the other one was supposed to be a WIP/Teaser only... couldn't find where to put it. Meh. This is the real slim shady right here :)

I tried it and it's awesome,another quality release from ancientevil,keep up the good work.

Yeah... Its nice you finally released it, im gunna... stop being upset by shooting stuff now.

Flattery will get you everywhere - thanks - you have confirmed that I did indeed upload the proper working version. I can sleep now. He he he.

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Aw, c'mon kitty - come over here and cough up a furball. Are those nasty zombines getting to you? :)

Wave beam from Metroid Prime / metroid much?

I will admit a slight inspirational source of the same name. It was the first NES game I ever played :) The actual source of initial inspiration was far less interesting, however, and consisted of one deranged lunatic staring at a three-phase power socket too long. Ha ha ha hoo hee... er... where's my bacon at?

I have to say this one of the best SWep's I've seen a long time. Good job, too bad we don't have LUA Kings anymore.

I've made a small modification to this which you can change the number of balls. Good job on this weapon and it's coding though, that made it easy to modify.

Good thing you released this. Needs a better model tough.

Angle not by radians? Argh, I have to convert.

Cheers!

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That's always the idea. Thanks for noticing. Careful on the number of balls, though - it was designed so that the balls move in a way that they never collide (no fair using no-collide) :)

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If you look in the models folder, there is one on the bench but it's not ready yet. It needs to be rotated and fixed and I just thought... "Nah, fuck it" - You guys can play with the gun and have addictive fun until I am ready to finish that part.

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He he he - a purist! :) Yeah, I know. The API is a little funny on that and it made a bit more sense to leave it in degrees rather than Pi. :) But if you want to add a switch to change the GUI to use radians, be my guest!

No kill crediting?

Awesome but as said before, needs a better model

Read above!

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Should work. The screenshots are from a while back.

EDIT: Does work. Had a play tonight. It's so theraputic to wipe out armies of zombies without even moving from their front line.... And Breen ALWAYS deserves to die.

Just a thought - if anyone makes any interesting orb pattern screenies they would like to post, go right ahead (be sure to post the settings to get them too). One of my faves is the tight but wide figure eight patterns that act as a slowly advancing orb-barrier. Spawn a line of npcs... standard or fast zombies... or ... anything, really... and stand back. Not many get through :) Then there's the standard (default) primary fire shot.... Ok. Fine. I love them all. I can't choose favourites amongst my children... :D

Hope everyone's out there hurting something!
-ae

What is the configuration for the pulse orb barrier please????

Well, this is what I am using at the moment - it's not perfect but it creates a lateral figure eight pattern that is very fast and thin (have a look using noclip from above once you've fired it) - it also moves very slow (the orbs move fast but the whole thing moves slow).

I translated this from the preset file:

Angle: 135
Flatten: ON
Rotation Speed: 25.28 (but I don't think that matters....can't remember, CBF to check)
Forward Velocity: 0
Frequency: 10
Function: Sine
Orb Velocity: 5400

I think I made a better one and didn't save it.... Anyhow, have fun!
-ae

Thank you :D

Yes, now those 100-150 zombies that it takes to put a lag on my computer can feel mah awesomeness, great work. If someone would recommend a mass NPC spawner, that takes a while to spawn that many:)

please help me it works perfectly^^... UNTIL I TRY TO FIRE. T_T it says something about a "nil value"... please help me

You are.. a GOD!

Looks fun.

Could you make a check box thing in the next version that allows/disables the orbs to bounce off of walls/props like combine energy balls?

You can change the model if you know lua. im not guna explain it to you since this is a quick post

Awesome!
you got my download!

looks like a metroid beam,
only... awesomer :D

Please post the exact message. On top of that, here's a few other things to try:

1. Are you running in Multiplayer? That's where it was designed for and I never write stuff for single player, really.
2. If multiplayer, what kind of server are you running? Dedicated or Listen (regular)
3. What other addons are you using? Try removing addons.
4. Where did you put the smac folder? It should be in your addons directory in garrysmod.

Let me know - the people must ALL be hurting something!!!

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Just bind this to any key not being used at the moment (here are mine):

bind "," "gmod_spawnnpc npc_fastzombie"
bind "." "gmod_spawnnpc npc_zombie"
bind "/" "gmod_spawnnpc npc_breen"

Then just tap away :)

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Not THE god. A God. LOL :D

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I don't see why not. On top of that I think I might make it a selector so that you can choose what behavior the orbs have - collide (default), bounce or passthrough.

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It's all about POWER. I used to get a similar sort of feeling when using God Mode in Doom 2 all those years ago. "Oh... you want some, do you, zombie? You want SOME? OF THIS?? *zzzffffffwiiiiii-F-POW*" I love it when the zombie head crabs fall off and catch on fire - totally unintended but hilarious all the same :)

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The Model
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For those who keep reminding me.... Yes... I know... the shotgun model is only temporary. Here is what the model for the gun looks like. When I get time to do it, I will fix this world model then make the view model - but there are other things higher on my priority list. If anyone else wants to do it and can follow simple guidelines (being an awesome modeller helps), apply here!

I'll do the model for you, I'll PM you some links to some of the work I've done.

Not for me - for the greater good! *echos* THE GREATER GOOD. THE GREATER GOOD.

Hey first PM sent, we can "discuss" there ha.

ORIGINAL: Please post the exact message. On top of that, here's a few other things to try:

1. Are you running in Multiplayer? That's where it was designed for and I never write stuff for single player, really.
2. If multiplayer, what kind of server are you running? Dedicated or Listen (regular)
3. What other addons are you using? Try removing addons.
4. Where did you put the smac folder? It should be in your addons directory in garrysmod.

Let me know - the people must ALL be hurting something!!!

1. i play in singleplayer, but i 'll try on multi.
2.singleplayer.....
3.i have anarmy of addons....incredibly big amount....
4. yes, it's in the addons.
in the next post i will write down the exact message.

Very nice addon!
But i got a problem =\
Every time i hit mouse1 or mouse2 i get an error:


Please Help? :(


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I put the smac folder in the addon folder.
I played in multi with my bro (lan).

Well that's truly weird. It's saying that it can't call the math library's random number function. Is there anything special about your system? All legit Gmod stuff from steam? Addons etc? Thanks for the screenshot - I will have a look at possible issues at that spot soon.

Yeah every thing is legal.. =\
And Thank you for helping ^_^

Unique, versitale, customizable and flawless
So I thought I might just post here to tell you "Good job"

@the model: Does it really have to be a shotgun? I'd rather like to see something similar to the HPD or AR2

EDIT: You might wanna change the origin of the ball, so it acutally looks like it's coming from the gun
You'll also need to fix primary and secondary delay (You can fire both with seperate delays)

And well, it's just kinda boring to use

Wow, there's not many sweps I like these days, but this one is da bomb. Like some other guy said, make it where you can change if the orbs bounce off walls and stuff.

Also, it might be cool to make it where you can change the refire rate of the gun or if it's semi-auto or auto, etc.

Also, view punch. Guns don't feel manly without view punches.

thats my proble too!!!!!

holy fawk this SWEP kicks ass. and its easy to download. I dont have any problems but one. The orbs...when i would test it out i would have the forward velocity to 0...so they ended up never dissapearing. i tryed spawning npcs and physgunning them into the orbs, which sortof worked. maybe add a removetime that you can set? lastly, i like the shotgun model and the one you have planned. let me know iff you ever need testers before you release it. damn thats a lot of words. im going to shut up now.
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sorry i know this is off topic but Dr. Time Cop you watch metalocolypse? and of all the good avatars you could get from that show you pick that sumnabitch? lol

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this might help but i dont know how i did this. i had this problem so i almost gave up on it. the next day though it somehow worked. i didnt change anything. i really cant contribute but maybe that scenario can shed some light.

nope..
it still doesn't working :(