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Dr. Prof. Science (Minomato)'s Weapons
BIG SCIENCE  [developer] 16 Aug, 2016 @ 11:19am
New Weapon Help
I'll post in here if I've got something I'm trying to do and I need suggestions or technical support.

To start, I want to do a knife weapon, and I wanted to try to do more than just a stab-spamming dagger.

I first tried it as a fist (shown as a brown, iron-plated gauntlet with a reverse-grip knife) to try to make use of the combo system: doing an uppercut with it seemed pretty cool, but it required both slots to have a fist weapon; otherwise all it could do was that short punch you can't aim, and it's hopeless against overhead targets.

If there's a way to force that uppercut while it is one-handed, that'd be dandy.

Another issue I ran into was that the offset would return to an incorrect placement after swinging, and would only return to the correct placement if the weapon was unequipped and re-equipped.

If that doesn't work out, another option would be to make it an 'axe', using something like the unrand frying pan's template, but I feel that will be very awkward unless it was something machete-sized.

If all else fails, I could just make it a dagger, but that's not as cool.
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BIG SCIENCE  [developer] 16 Aug, 2016 @ 4:39pm 
Published the weapon in this issue today, as Combat Knives (Fist).

I corrected the offset issue by making the animation use a square frame (27x27 px) instead of the compact previous version (16x20 px).

I set the Rotation and Flip values to True to give better handling and allow for aiming, and set Recoil to False to let the user run while swinging (still pauses and leaps on uppercut).
Last edited by BIG SCIENCE; 16 Aug, 2016 @ 4:42pm
Hedge Knight 16 Aug, 2016 @ 10:27pm 
hmm...tomahawk? batarangs? ooo staff that shoots like a sniper?
TROUBLE 25 Sep, 2016 @ 12:31pm 
I was browsing through the wiki a while ago, and saw some of the disabled weapons. Think you could try and bring them back to life? (Buster, Heat Cleaver, Chromosword, Eye Buster)
Arch-Magos Wicked 27 Sep, 2016 @ 10:29am 
why not try something like a laser gun that shoots energy javlins rather then laser blasts?
ALE199 18 Oct, 2016 @ 10:16am 
can you make old weapons for today standard!(or starbound standars) for exemple a BLUNDERBUSS into a PHOTOBUSS but if you whana make somting like that please keep the classic blunderbuss!
TTSkyHammer 3 Dec, 2016 @ 1:41pm 
minigun, laser minigun and some energy weapons
if you can of course
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