The Aurora Cannon - Facepunch

October 2008
2,257 Posts

THE AURORA CANNON
The destructive power of the combine - in your hands today!

Mostly created as a test of the OB Particles but developed into something better, the Aurora Cannon is a work in progress by Entoros. Current features include:

Four different primary fire modes:
- Explosive (shockwave effect + splash damage) and
- Shock (freeze target on hit)
- Incendiary (burn baby burn)
- Heal (help out your teammates, you maggot)
Epic explosion on secondary fire
Open the Combine Portal (and a really really big explosion)
Coolio effects from Half Life 2: Episode 2 for all attacks
Episode 2 sounds

Images

VERSION 2

VERSION 1

The combine portal being opened (kinda looks like a giant jellyfish, doesn't it?).

Video

View YouTUBE video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GC-DczePckY

Download

All right you lazy maggots, here's version two.

DISCLAIMER: THE COMBINE PORTAL WILL NOT AND CANNOT DISAPPEAR - don't blame me, blame the particle.

If you do not have Episode 2, you will be very sad!

If you want to stop the errors on secondary fire, download v2

Instructions

Primary - Fire current firemode
Primary + Use - Switch firemodes
Primary + Reload - Open the Combine Portal
Secondary - Create epic explosion

CowThing

Gold Member

November 2006
2,829 Posts

Looks pretty, did you make the effects yourself?

Entoros

October 2008
2,257 Posts

I certainly wish, but I was messing around with the built-in particles in Episode 2. It surprised me that nobody was using these yet.

nick10510

August 2008
873 Posts

Pretty jellyfish...

J05|-||_|4

June 2008
185 Posts

Holy shit, this looks awesome.

MCZorba

November 2007
76 Posts

S-S-S-Super Jizz, jizz, jizz, jizz...

What be songs name btw?

Flubadoo

August 2009
1,089 Posts

MCZorba posted:

S-S-S-Super Jizz, jizz, jizz, jizz...

What be songs name btw?

I jizzed in my pants.

jakejakke

August 2006
465 Posts

Nice job managing to make it use info_particles.

CowThing posted:

Looks pretty, did you make the effects yourself?

Nops. The effects are from Valve's Orange Box (Ep2). :)

Quidsy the Squidsy

February 2009
247 Posts

Woah, those effects are sweet!

leiftiger

November 2009
82 Posts

Really great weapon!
Everything works except for the secondary fire which gives me this lua error:

weapons\weapon_base\shared.lua:188: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'num' (a nil value)

and I think that the combine portal should disappear after a while, since it will be there until map change..
or if you could make some sort of missile to close it (like in episode 2).

Entoros

October 2008
2,257 Posts

Thanks everyone for your comments!

MCZorba posted:

S-S-S-Super Jizz, jizz, jizz, jizz...

What be songs name btw?

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/139098

leiftiger posted:

Really great weapon!
Everything works except for the secondary fire which gives me this lua error:

weapons\weapon_base\shared.lua:188: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'num' (a nil value)

and I think that the combine portal should disappear after a while, since it will be there until map change..
or if you could make some sort of missile to close it (like in episode 2).

I have no clue why you'd get that error, since the weapon is not derived from weapon_base and neither shared has 188 lines. (can someone find me the source for weapon_base?)

As for the combine portal thing, I could probably do that. The initial idea was it was an epic explosion that blew up everything on the map so you'd probably be changing anyway, but I can put that in the second release.

Flubadoo

August 2009
1,089 Posts

how do you open the portal? Anways, I also get: | weapons\weapon_base\shared.lua:188: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'num' (a nil value) | when I use secondary fire, and there is no effect for the primary fire, just a bullet hole, and the secondary fire has no effects.

Entoros

October 2008
2,257 Posts

Flubadoo posted:

how do you open the portal? Anways, I also get: | weapons\weapon_base\shared.lua:188: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'num' (a nil value) | when I use secondary fire, and there is no effect for the primary fire, just a bullet hole, and the secondary fire has no effects.

Opening the portal is primary + reload.

*edit for detail* If you want to stop the errors on secondary fire, remove line 138 of lua/weapons/weapon_ioncannon/shared.lua: "self:TakePrimaryAmmo(self.Secondary.TakeAmmo) ;"

If you aren't getting any effects, you don't have Episode 2. Can't do anything about that.

Flubadoo

August 2009
1,089 Posts

but i haz ep2!!?

Ye_Olde_Snake

September 2009
143 Posts

Looks cool ill download

Dr Pepper

October 2008
3,947 Posts

secondary fire doesnt work

Flubadoo

August 2009
1,089 Posts

Dr Pepper posted:

secondary fire doesnt work

Opening the portal is primary + reload.

If you want to stop the errors on secondary fire, remove line 138: "self:TakePrimaryAmmo(self.Secondary.TakeAmmo) ;"

This.

Laferio

February 2009
286 Posts

Nice fucking work.

matthewwebber

May 2009
86 Posts

Ownage

xLSDx

November 2009
27 Posts

Beautiful use of particles man.

riddick3(lost riddick2 pw

March 2009
261 Posts

Looks cool. I was wondering if you could make a combine portal that spawned combine soldiers?

SlayerFin

Gold Member

May 2008
2,730 Posts

Oh my god. Artistic effect.

kapergame

September 2009
1 Posts

best f****** gun i ever sa

CaMpEr_DoOd

Gold Member

December 2006
2,742 Posts

It's not bad but it could be done to have better attacks.

They seem kind of simple right now, like they're just good looking attacks but without an actual attack if you get what i mean.

Ningaglio

February 2009
566 Posts

why not make it so that when you do the portal thing, it actually does the rt camera thing in the middle. like a real portal

Entoros

October 2008
2,257 Posts

CaMpEr_DoOd posted:

It's not bad but it could be done to have better attacks.

They seem kind of simple right now, like they're just good looking attacks but without an actual attack if you get what i mean.

Well, what do you suggest? I tried to put effort into the attacks. Explode causes splash damage, shock causes your enemy to freeze for a short period of time, secondary makes a massive explosion, and the combine rift destroys everything on the map.

Ningaglio posted:

why not make it so that when you do the portal thing, it actually does the rt camera thing in the middle. like a real portal

Well, what would it point to?

Dlaor

Gold Member

June 2007
8,686 Posts

Great effects, but not so interesting after that.

Ningaglio

February 2009
566 Posts

Dlaor posted:

Great effects, but not so interesting after that.

What he said

Decylord

October 2009
83 Posts

could u make a version 2 with a custom model for the weapon?

Deshift

December 2009
8 Posts

how do you change "self:TakePrimaryAmmo(self.Secondary.TakeAmmo) ;"?

luck_or_loss

January 2007
1,761 Posts

The gun needs to play that music when you equip it.

XXSkullmanXX

May 2008
10 Posts

Really,

the SWEP just blew my mind. :D

And I wanted to say the same thing as leiftiger.

Please,could you change,that the portal remains on the map?Except that,
the swep is already perfect :) Thanks for releasing it! :D

Amez

Gold Member

June 2008
7,245 Posts

How about release a fix for the secondary fire? I'm rather lazy and don't feel like searching through code just to delete a line.

pbplayer

January 2009
155 Posts

I can't find it. It isn't in my weapons tab.

Fixed it. I still get an error involving line 188 for secondary fire. I deleted the other line 138 already.

kingsean96

September 2008
156 Posts

Beautiful, SWEP. I enjoy using it.
If I may ask, what is that water map in the video?

The man of "Wat"

January 2009
729 Posts

I would absolutely fucking worship anybody who makes a version of this weapon that has the specific effects and stuff needed to use this weapon inside.

cruiser97

April 2009
16 Posts

kingsean96 posted:

Beautiful, SWEP. I enjoy using it.
If I may ask, what is that water map in the video?

I believe it was gm_excess_waters. I just spent 10 minutes looking back through the Garry's Mod News Feed and I finally found it, posted on August 10th.

http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=75492

Flubadoo

August 2009
1,089 Posts

Deshift posted:

how do you change "self:TakePrimaryAmmo(self.Secondary.TakeAmmo) ;"?

go to the lua folder, then in weapons, then open shared.lua press ctrl+f and paste the code in there. It will find it for you. delete the full line.

bizzclaw

December 2009
27 Posts

i do not understand when you tel us to delete line 138 of the lua file, the file can be stretched in different ways changing the number of lines, and do you mean lines in which there is nothing? or only lines with text, i am very confused about the matter, and I also don't understand why when you realized this bug, didn't create a fix, or re upload it. all i ask is a fix for the current release, thank you

Flubadoo

August 2009
1,089 Posts

bizzclaw posted:

i do not understand when you tel us to delete line 138 of the lua file, the file can be stretched in different ways changing the number of lines, and do you mean lines in which there is nothing? or only lines with text, i am very confused about the matter, and I also don't understand why when you realized this bug, didn't create a fix, or re upload it. all i ask is a fix for the current release, thank you

garrysmod/garrysmod/addons/*wherever the folder of the aurora cannon is installed*/lua/weapons/shared.txt/

open shared.txt . Ignore whatever line it is in, but delete "self:TakePrimaryAmmo(self.Secondary.TakeAmmo) ;" just type it in the search of notepad and delete the line. It is not that hard.

Edit:
Screw this. I'm gonna upload a fix.

It's up! Merry Late Christmas!!!!