Adding New Weapons

[EMR]

In tutorial 60, (http://www.inside3d.com/showtutorial.php?id=60), it claims that weapon IDs don't need to be powers of two. It seems like one would not do that kind of thing if they didn't need to, so is this... true?[/code][/i]

[silverjoel]

They have to be powers of 2. Well, if you want it to work right.

[EMR]

Is there a workaround so that we can have an arbitrary number of weapons? My plan was to test all of the weapon functions I could make before re-writing the weapon switching code. The end goal was to implement a weapon switching/shooting system more like BattleField or Halo, where you swap weapons rather than hauling a whole arsenal around.

(Oh, and you might want to warn people about that tutorial if it does not actually work)...

[Downsider]

If you want a Halo-type system, and there's only two weapon slots, then you can just define two weapon slots as fields with integers for ID's, instead of bitflags for the entire inventory.

[mankrip]

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