Randomly spawning a different sprite

[DukeInstinct]

Either way takes about the same amount of memory. You might save a couple bytes in your dat file with the loop method.

If you want to use a loop then the second piece of code I posted should go into your create explosion function while the first piece of code I posted should go into your spawn debris function.

[Mexicouger]

NEXT QUESTION. Is there a distinct surface for a player. A distinct vector? Say you shoot a gun and you have  arichochet sound effecta You don`t want it to play whne you hit the player. So how woul dyou setup that if statement?

[DukeInstinct]

If you're using a traceline to detect what your weapon hit then you'd use:

Code:

if (trace_ent.takedamage)

To check whether it's a player/monster.

If you're using a entity that acts as a projectile then in that projectile's touch function you'd add:

Code:

if (other.takedamage)

[Mexicouger]

OK i think I get it now. I added richochet sounds and I don`t want it to play on a player. Also, sorry bout so many questions and bad spelling. My phone is retarded and blends letters. I also wa sjust messing with th erandom code and added a random func to a .nextthink function, an dnow the debris randomly disapears between 1-8 seconds. I think coding is fooking awesome. Now I did something a bit offtopic a while ago. I created a solid sprite that .thinks about shooting a weapon. he .nextthinks in 3 seconds but never nextthinks. Any help? like he will shoot the weapon when I load the map in 3 seconds, But he won`t shoot it again. I added the think funcstions and all. i put his .think = W_FirePistol  and he does the whole pistol action, but he won`t do it again.

[DukeInstinct]

There should also be an assignment to nextthink in the actual think function. So basically add:

Code:

self.nextthink=time+3;

to your think function.

[Mexicouger]

I had  a nextthink already. And time counts as 1 second right? self.nextthink = time + 5; that is 6 seconds right?

[DukeInstinct]

Nope. It's 5 seconds.

[Mexicouger]

So why must we put time + 5; then?

[DukeInstinct]

time is the amount of seconds that has elapsed since the game began.

If you just put nextthink=5; then that would mean 5 seconds after the game began. You'd most likely be past that time every call to that function so your think function would never be triggered. However, if you put nextthink=time+5; then that would mean 5 seconds after you assigned nextthink.

[Mexicouger]

Oh wow! That`s a big difference! Thanks!