SOLVED: Weapon Drop

[msmalik681]

I have managed to setup a weapon and the enemy can pick it up but when they are hit they do not drop the weapon for another player/enemy to pick it up again am I missing something.

I was thinking I could have a damage script spawn the weapon when hit but this should be handled by the engine can anyone help ?

 

[msmalik681]

My weapon was already the last entry in the models.txt so that did not work for me  but thanks for the suggestion.

I did come across your old post when initially looking for a answer.

 

[msmalik681]

I found the solution just had to add the line "shootnum  -1" ("shootnum  0" does not work and obviously if it is a shooting weapon you should set it to the amount of ammo you want.) into the header of the weapon item.  it is not documented anywhere that this is a mandatory field to re-spawn the item but I guess it is good you have a option not to re-spawn the weapon I guess.

I will flag this up to ilu to update the manuals "Using Weapons" sections about this.

 

[msmalik681]

Looks like this only works if the enemy who picked up the weapon.  If the weapon was applied by script nothing will be dropped so now i am using a take damage script to drop the weapon.