Legacy:ShockBeamEffect

UT2003 :: Actor >> xEmitter >> ShockBeamEffect (Package: xWeapons)

Properties

vector HitNormal 

HunterKiller: The HitNormal is an orthogonal vector to the hit location. Like, If you are facing a wall, and you shoot it, the hit location vector is a line from you to the wall. The normal of this line is the wall. (I thought I should explain this somewhere) :)

Methods

AimAt (Vector hl, Vector hn) 

• Set HitNormal property;
• Tell the clients to create the visual effects if not a Dedicated Server;

SpawnEffects ( ) [simulated] 

In resume, this function finds where the effects should came from (like, the tip of the weapon's barrel)

• If we are in 1st person, the muzzle flash spawn point is got from the Weapon GetEffectStart function;
• In 3rd person, it uses the WeaponAttachment GetTipLocation function
• Spawn some effects in the hit location, aligned to the hit normal;

This are the effects spawned in the hit location

• ShockImpactFlare
• ShockImpactRing
• ShockImpactScorch
• ShockExplosionCore

And this is the beam itself:

• ShockBeamCoil

<uscript>

  Coil = Spawn(class'ShockBeamCoil',,, Location, Rotation);
  if (Coil != None)
   {

Coil.mSpawnVecA = mSpawnVecA;

   }

</uscript>

HunterKiller: Remembering: Location was set in the muzzle flash routines, and is the tip of the weapon. mSpawnVecA is the HitLocation. With this set, you will have a beam getting out from your weapons tip to the desired location.

Known Subclasses

• SuperShockBeamEffect
  • BlueSuperShockBeam

Comments

HunterKiller: Following Wormbo advices. ;)

Wormbo: Some more adjustments... ;) We usually use "; functionname (parameters) : description" for function declarations. Use the ... tags if you need to put really complex stuff into the description part. Stuff like "What's a HitNormal" should be explained in a place like the vector introduction on the UnrealScript Lessons page. Maybe a page for explaining details that would be a good idea? (A discussion about this can be found at Guidelines On General Style.)