Raycasting and revamping for Weaponry

Join Date: 2008-12-26
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#66101467Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:32 AM GMT

In ROBLOX, weaponry seems to function bulky and you can really get a good gun without using a decal or mesh like Nacht Der Unoten uses. ROBLOX needs an API for weapons and Raycasting so Gun designers will be able to build their weapons and make it easier and make it look detailed instead of the blocky arsenal in Base War. It's also been an idea from playing CoD and other FPS's that it should be able to show you when you reload, the game is partly about "bloxxing" each other, so we need some system allowing us to make detailed, non-bulky, and overall Schmexhy weapons :>

Shobobo99

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#66102017Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:39 AM GMT

Roblox lets you make anything, and shouldn't specialize in something. We have the ability to make weapons and it is good enough as it is.

iornfence

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#66102046Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:39 AM GMT

inb5cframe

wildnick7

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#66102298Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:42 AM GMT

look at rat's guns

clone001

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#66102532Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:45 AM GMT

They already have an API for guns. It's called Lua. You should learn it. ~Truth is an unpopular subject, because it is unquestionably correct.~

MattewFez

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#66103401Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:55 AM GMT

Lua is a programming language Clone, it's not for guns specifically, it can be used to raycast, but it's not for making guns look realistic.

clone001

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#66103736Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:59 AM GMT

You clearly missed my sarcasm in that post. My, it is extremely hard to perceive tone for text I'll give you that. Listen, if you want to build a fancy gun - learn to CFrame. If you want a lag-free gun then use lag-free functions and operators (Yes, I'm aware there is no such thing as "lag-free" but you get my point). ROBLOX was founded on the concept that given only a few real objects - such as bricks - you could build the rest of an entire game from the ground up using the simplest of all languages: Lua. Lua does everything you need and then some. There is no need for an API when Lua already does it perfectly per se. ~Truth is an unpopular subject, because it is unquestionably correct.~

kingkiller1000

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#66103984Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:02 AM GMT

> API for weapons and Raycasting I guess the weapons API is somewhat reasonable, but what the crud would you put in a Raycasting API?