HTWeapon: Part 5 - Dealing Damage

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Subject: HTWeapon: Part 5 - Dealing Damage
Skill Level: So easy a caveman can do it.
Run-Time: 5 minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: How to make your weapon deal damage upon firing.

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Subject: HTWeapon: Part 5 - Dealing Damage
Skill Level: So easy a caveman can do it.
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: How to make your weapon deal damage upon firing.

Step 1: Modify your weapon's defaultproperties block

[csharp]defaultproperties
{
// Weapon SkeletalMesh
Begin Object Name=FirstPersonMesh
SkeletalMesh=SkeletalMesh'ALWP_M16.Mesh.SK_WP_M16_1P'
AnimSets(0)=AnimSet'ALWP_M16.Anims.K_WP_M16_1P'
Scale=1.0
FOV=60.0
End Object

// Pickup staticmesh
Begin Object name=PickupMesh
SkeletalMesh=SkeletalMesh'ALWP_M16.Mesh.SK_WP_M16_3P'
End Object

PlayerViewOffset=(X=17,Y=10.0,Z=-8.0)

//This is what we have added here.

AmmoCount=9001
MaxAmmoCount=9001

InstantHitDamage(0)=25.0
InstantHitDamage(1)=500000.0
InstantHitMomentum(0)=1000.0
InstantHitMomentum(1)=1000000.0
}[/csharp]

Step 2: Done