Server Help

[Ikrit]

Hey everyone, I'm attempting to write in some better weapons stuff for TWCore and when I looked at the packet def's for weapons I noticed something weird, the there are only 9 different types of weapons but it has 5bits available for it... why does it seem to have 1 more bit than necessary and does it want the to process 01000 as 8 or 10000 as 8?

Thanks,
Ikrit

[Contempt+]

it should be 01000 or 1000
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[Ikrit]

Ok... so, an overall thing could be like 0000111000000000 for regular level 3 bullet? which would put it at a huge number ... right?

[Contempt+]

Well, there's only 1 number there. 00001110 is 14, and 00000000 is just 0.

I'm not really sure about the level 3 bullet, hopefully either you figure it out, or someone else can help. sorry man

[Mr Ekted]

Weapons types go from 0 to 8 in 5 bits (00000 to 01000). JeffP likely left an extra bit for future weapon types. A weapon field in the various structures is 16 bits long:

MM SH SH SH SH SH SL SL SB WL WL WT WT WT WT WT

MM = multi-mine
SH = # shrap
SL = shrap level
SB = shrap bounce
WL = weapon level
WT = weapon type

Note that in the packet itself (and in memory under Intel), these 2 bytes are physcially reversed (Intel order).
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[Ikrit (I should register)]

Ah, thanks Ekted the order was confusing me, I had it backwards lol.