[tool][wip] weapon creator

[lordrockit]

hello again,
being that i am very board, i am going to make a tool to help us all, a html based weapon creator. this will provide you with the code to make the weapon, you just have o set it up! if you want any special features or want to host the web page for me, please let me know in the comments below.
thanks in advance,
-lordrockit

[lordrockit]

i have been working on a bit now, its not hard just tedious, but i plan the weapon base, anim sheets, and sounds. very tedious work, lots of picking apart mods(second time making a weapon first time i just copied, renamed, and coverd the image with my own) so some time now and it will be ready. just remember i want your feedback and sugestions so i can make this as good as possible.

[R4V3-0N]

Even though I think looking at the coding and stuff is an important skill. I do quite like the idea off a program to assist me...

If only someone someday makes an event tool

[lordrockit]

i havent done anything with events yet so if you send me sample code for it with tons of comments, i can make a thing for it, simmiler to what im working on with text inputs and stuff to get a result. any way almost done sooooooooo much code

[lordrockit]

bout time this got done, there are some limitations with html that i had to change some things, so you have to add the quotes around the values, and replace brackets with the tag signs, but it works . http://jsfiddle.net/lordrockit/9w9v9hn9 ... ed/result/
edit DONT CLICK I JUST FORGOT ITS BROKEN SO IM EDITING THIS.
edit fixed new link http://jsfiddle.net/lordrockit/9w9v9hn9 ... ed/result/

[stylesrj]

Sweet. Does this mean I can throw in images of a weapon and make a custom weapon out of it? Because that will make it much easier than fiddling with animation sheets and not getting the gun to fire

Can't wait...

[lordrockit]

Sweet. Does this mean I can throw in images of a weapon and make a custom weapon out of it? Because that will make it much easier than fiddling with animation sheets and not getting the gun to fire

Can't wait...

you still need an animation sheet but thats easy just decide how many frames you want, multiply the width of the image by the number of frames, and then animate from there read though this http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17122 to get a general idea of how it works, also you need to know were to put the images for it to work, this also tells you that.


If you dont want your new weapon to look as dull as the standard stuff you want to add a new image and animation.
For that to work you first need to know how FTL will treat the image you give it:



Here you see the basic laser animation strip.

The gray arrow points onto the base or depowered image. If your weapon is not powered, it will show this one.
The white arrow shows the start of the charging animation. Until your weapon is fully powered FTL will go through the remaining images of the powerup animation to the Charged Image until the weapon is powered.
The Green arrow is the Charged Image. Here the weapon is off cd and ready to fire. (this image also shows in stores)
The Red Arrow is the firing image. All images between the Charged Image and firing image are the shooting animation. All images behind the firing image are the recoil animation. (just as a note: Beam weapons only use the recoil animation as the animation they shoot).

from Metzelmax's artical on how to make a weapon

[lordrockit]

lol forgot ion damage here it is finished http://jsfiddle.net/lordrockit/9w9v9hn9 ... ed/result/

[stylesrj]

I know how the animation sheets work. I've been struggling with them for some time in trying to create an ion blaster weapon

[R4V3-0N]

I know how the animation sheets work. I've been struggling with them for some time in trying to create an ion blaster weapon

I know how to make weapon animations, it's just I am not accurate at making them and in the end of the day It boils down to me putting random numbers in the areas and double checking to not accidentally miss lable something


Anyway OP I would like to help you with events but I am afraid I know nearly nothing about them. The reason why I want someone to make a tool to make events is because events is the hardest thing you can do in FTL. (not considering custom art from scratch or making audio or what have you)