[XP] BlizzABS Ranged Weapon with Ammo

[BrokenMessiah]

Having a problem with BlizzABS.
In the Config utility,I can set a weapon to simply 'bow' and it works fine, however, when I set it to bow and arrow and assign it an item to use as ammo, when i try to use it in game it plays a sound effect to tell you it isn't working or something. I did have ammo in my inventory, it was even hot-keyed. I read the user manual but I still couldn't understand what was going wrong. Thanks in advance

[Aqua]

Did you press the hotkey to which you assigned the ammo?

[BrokenMessiah]

Ah, so thats how it worked. I figured it'd be as simple as having ammo in your inventory. Oh well. Thanks for the help

[winkio]

Yeah, I acknowledge that this system is more than a bit counterintuitive, and I'm looking into ways to improve it in future releases of Blizz-ABS.

[Blizzard]

winkio, I have an idea how to work around this issue. If you have only 1 item as ammo assigned, the weapon should use it. If a weapon can use more than 1 item of ammo, the player has to assign it to the hotkey. What do you think of that?

[winkio]

Yeah, that will work for if there is only 1 item.  But i was thinking of modifying the equip screen so that when you equipped an ammo weapon, you could choose its ammo.

[Aqua]

That might cause people to ask for help when they use custom equipment scenes.

[winkio]

Hm, good point.  Maybe I should just make a new equip screen that comes up whenever you try to use an ammo weapon without an item equipped.  That seems like a better solution.

EDIT:  Or maybe just switch ammo buttons?  It would automatically equip the next available ammo.

[Blizzard]

That sounds like a good idea. You should make that feature optional, though.