Nothing special. I m a flat minded guy so i make things the easiest way i can imagine
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I will not be in my pc for 3 weeks from now, so i can write down the way it works:
1. Weapon is bought by player hero.
2. Item slot is defined. (eg: x=3),
3. Weapon Array is defined ( [player number -1]*6 +x )
4. A pre defined arrayed timer (with weapon cooldown, [eg: 1.5 sec for basic magic]) is resumed that moment. (eg: basic magic(1 to 60) where I assume player is blue and slot is 3 so timer is; basic_magic[9] with 1.5 sec cooldown )
5. Every time this timer is met, checking some conditions, (player is alive, not disabled (antigrav ability) etc...). Trigger chooses a random enemy unit with targetablity (If weapon is hero only then it will choose only hero units etc...) in range of weapon from hero position (here is 999 range). And sets this variable to a unit variable like timer. (target[9])
-note that this unit assigned to a variable to be able to detect the angle between hero and target so you will be able to create dummy caster facing that angle so it will lose no time while casting spell. And dummy caster's casting point and backswing point (dont remember exact name of it) is set to 0.
6. Create a dummy unit giving it the "dummy spell". And making it "cast spell" the unit chosen "target".
7. And of course that trigger starts with removing the recent dummy caster. So it will destroy dummy casters at start of timer.
8. Timer pauses and "dummy caster" is removed from game when player drops weapon.
Advantages:
-This will let editor to implement many improvements of weapons. Can stop firing, focus firing, increase-decrease range by only 1 variable. Some good kind of passive abilities can be implemented. Weapon oriented abilities can be implemented etc..
-Weapons will not need to be in inventory to fire. Only their data will be enough.
-Weapons can have slow, stun, poison, or many kind of stuff like that.
-This way, weapons can fire much more smooth without any stucking behaviour like lasers do have.
Disadvantages:
-This will be exactly more mass on cpu. I tried 10 weapons at a time with 0.03 sec cooldown and it was normal. But dont know more weapons. Of course no weapon will have 0.03 cooldown. Even laser have 0.1 cooldown which means I tested around 30 weapons at a time with least cooldown (laser or flamer) at a time...
-I still couldnt find a projectile spell without any efects and without onboard animation.
-Will be a lot work and take time to assign variables, datas, dummy spells etc...
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