A Null Weapon

A weapon that doesn nothing may seem pointless, and in many ways it is, but I've had problems with starting people off without a weapon when they want to change to one they've just picked up. So here is a weapon that does nothing except print a message on the users screen

Add this into the item definitions in g_item.c

 
{
"weapon_null",  // The map entity name. dont include this in a map whatever you do.
NULL, // The pickup function
Use_Weapon,  // How to use
NULL, // the drop function
Weapon_Null,   //What the use function is
"misc/w_pkup.wav",
"models/nullweapon.md2",0,
"models/nullweapon.md2", //The models stuff. nullweapon.md2 is linked to at the end of the tutorial.
"w_blaster", //Icon to be used. you could create another, you probably should
"No Weapon", //Pickup name. use this to give the item to someone at the start of the game
0,
0,
NULL,
IT_WEAPON|IT_STAY_COOP,
WEAP_BLASTER, // the model index, just an integer defined in g_local.h
NULL,
0,
""
},
 

Add

void Weapon_Null(edict_t *ent);

at the top of g_items.c after the other Weapon_* function defintions.

Add the code below at the end of p_weapon.c. you could make this a seperate file if you really wanted

void Weapon_Null(edict_t *ent){
if ((ent->client->buttons|ent->client->buttons) & (BUTTON_ATTACK|BUTTON_USE))
{
gi.centerprintf(ent,"You're not in the game yet, Select a class");
return;
}
if (ent->client->newweapon)
ChangeWeapon(ent);
}

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Resources

Get the null weapon model

Shunkworks Tutorials