Automatic Firearms. Chrono Engine ABS

It's been a while since I did something similar. In base chrono engine I believe the easiest method is using two tools.

The first one (toolA) is an invisible machinegun, which has a move route full of "
commands.
toolB is your machine gun bullet

So the player holds down the button and is 'charging', which means they shoot a steady stream of bullets out. If they let up off the button, they stop firing.

Like I said it's been a while but I'm PRETTY sure multistage tools just inherit the owner out of the box.

the toolb is the event id of your machine gun bullet on your tool map

EDIT: Charging had an annoying sound so I just poll the button directly.
launcher:





bullet (just a copypasted arrow)

Can you show me what you did in the skills? I copied both events exactly and nothing seems to be happening.

Copied everything into my main project, seems to be working just fine, I really appreciate it.
If there's any way for these improvements to be made, it'll be wonderful. Just do the simple ones, you've done enough for me already.
Player can move while shooting
Instead of bursts of 7, a constant fire rate
Pose is kept while shooting
I understand some may be complicated, so please, I can deal with it, I hate being stubborn.

you can increase how long you keep shooting bullets by increasing how long the launcher sticks around

moving while firing can be accomplished by setting the pose duration on the arrow to 0.

Anything that involves splitting apart the shooting animation from being stuck in place is going to require rewriting large portions of the act code, so with base chrono engine you can pick either 'plays the tool_pose_suffix animation when shooting' or 'can shoot while moving'.

Thank you so much!!! Everything seems to be working just as I wanted it to!!
However, there's still a thing that I wanted to make, and that is making the character hold the gun while it's shooting, is there a *practical* way to make this, or do I just make the sprite hold the gun permanently?

If you're willing to settle for standing still, you just change the tool_pose_suffix to the your fire animation in the bullet event.


Otherwise you COULD do something like restructuring the move route for your machinegun event, so instead of just repeating two commands it does something like

>Change Actor Image to 'Harold_HoldingGun'
>if(Input.isPressed(Moghunter.ras_buttonWeapon)){$gamePlayer.act(71)}else{this.erase();[whatever the command is to change the actor back to harold]}
>Wait 10 frames
>if(Input.isPressed(Moghunter.ras_buttonWeapon)){$gamePlayer.act(71)}else{this.erase();[whatever the command is to change the actor back to harold]}
>Wait 10 frames>
if(Input.isPressed(Moghunter.ras_buttonWeapon)){$gamePlayer.act(71)}else{this.erase();[whatever the command is to change the actor back to harold]}
>Wait 10 frames
>if(Input.isPressed(Moghunter.ras_buttonWeapon)){$gamePlayer.act(71)}else{this.erase();[whatever the command is to change the actor back to harold]}
>Wait 10 frames
>if(Input.isPressed(Moghunter.ras_buttonWeapon)){$gamePlayer.act(71)}else{this.erase();[whatever the command is to change the actor back to harold]}
>Wait 10 frames
>if(Input.isPressed(Moghunter.ras_buttonWeapon)){$gamePlayer.act(71)}else{this.erase();[whatever the command is to change the actor back to harold]}
>Wait 10 frames
>if(Input.isPressed(Moghunter.ras_buttonWeapon)){$gamePlayer.act(71)}else{this.erase();[whatever the command is to change the actor back to harold]}
>Wait 10 frames
>if(Input.isPressed(Moghunter.ras_buttonWeapon)){$gamePlayer.act(71)}else{this.erase();[whatever the command is to change the actor back to harold]}
>Wait 10 frames
....

....
>Change Actor Image to 'Harold'

Note you'll need to have the other poses for chrono engine created for Harold_HoldingGun, so you'd need Harold_HoldingGun_idle or Harold_HoldingGun_dash or whatever.