Big Problem Fixed, Yahoo!!

[MajorTom]

I dunno how this escaped me earlier [?]
Apparently I just didn’t notice it and it was like this all along.
Anyhow!

The weapons on the animated x-wing fire constantly after they’ve been triggered once. But! you don’t see the bolts or see any hits from the players perspective! (As a target though you experience constant hits).

It works like this:
open sfoils, target a ship, press the trigger briefly to get one burst. After you’ve stopped firing, the target will continue to take damage at the refire_rate of the weapon you’ve fired.
You don’t see your ship fireing, There is no indication of the firing process on the player ship whatsoever! no energy consumption, nothing. you can just watch the hit points of the target deminish constantly.
I know it is firing from the x-wing because if you move so an object is between you and the target the hit points stop dimenishing. Same happens when you move out of weapon range of the target. As soon as you move back within range (or no longer have an obstacle betwwen you) the “invisible firing” continues and the targets hit points begin to dimenish again.
The only way to stop the “invisible fire” is to close the sfoils (which locks down the weapons)
If you open the Sfoils again it doesn’t resume fire at the same target or any other target again (until you pull the trigger)

I’ve tried different weapons, different pog and everything else I can think of. I can’t find what is causing it. The only thing that will prevent the effect is not to set the avatar channel for the wing animation. (in other words start the ship without the weapons locked down and don’t use the avatar switch)

I’m guessing it has something to do with the fire channel switch on the weapons and the avatar switch channel on the X-wing? (somehow they are getting mixed up? )

As soon as the space is avaliable I’ll upload the whole mod so you can see this effect for yourselves.

For now, could you please scrutinize the setup scenes and avatar stuff? any Ideas??

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