Weapon Chains

As requested, here is how to have different weapons appear when you press the same number multiple times. The code here is using only the weapons which are in the basic game and because of that there is the minor problem that if you select a weapon in a chain the normal way (i.e. press 4 to select the machinegun) and then press the number allocated to a chain which the machinegun appears in, the weapon after the machine gun ,in the chain, will be selected. If you are using this code for your own weapons then this shouldn't be a problem.

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All the changes are made in a single function in G_cmds.c. the function is Cmd_Use_f Then new code is marked with

// Begin multiweapon select. Copy this code block for multiple weapon chains

and

// End of multiweapon select

If you want more than one chain, then just copy that code in again and change the weapons marked in it. Make sure that you are using the pickup names of the weapons in the comparisons. (the pickup names are defined in g_items.c)

Here is the modified Cmd_Use_f function.

void Cmd_Use_f (edict_t *ent)
{
 int index;
 gitem_t *it;
 char *s;
 
 s = gi.args();
 it = FindItem (s);
 
 
// Begin multiweapon select. Copy this code block for multiple weapon chains
 
  if (!Q_strcasecmp(s, "Blaster")) // begin multi select for blaster
  {
 if (!Q_strcasecmp(ent->client->pers.weapon->pickup_name,"Blaster")) // do you have the blaster selected?
  it=FindItem ("Rocket Launcher"); // select the next in the weapon chain
 else if (!Q_strcasecmp(ent->client->pers.weapon->pickup_name,"Rocket Launcher")) // do you have the blaster selected?
 it=FindItem ("Machinegun"); // select the next in the weapon chain
 }
 
// End of multiweapon select
 
 if (!it)
 {
 gi.cprintf (ent, PRINT_HIGH, "unknown item: %s\n", s);
 return;
 }
 if (!it->use)
 {
 gi.cprintf (ent, PRINT_HIGH, "Item is not usable.\n");
 return;
 }
 index = ITEM_INDEX(it);
 if (!ent->client->pers.inventory[index])
 {
 gi.cprintf (ent, PRINT_HIGH, "Out of item: %s\n", s);
 return;
 }
 
 it->use (ent, it);
}
 

All the code does is check to see if you are selecting the first weapon in the chain and then finding the current location in the chain, then selecting the next weapon in the chain. As it stands at the moment if you don't have the next weapon in the chain (or no ammo for it) you cant progress through the chain. I should get round to fixing this, but it'll probably change the code a fair bit. (i'm planning to use arrays)

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