How do you set a weapon to the player programmatically?

[meszaros-lajos-gyorgy]

player.setweapon bone_weap puts the correct weapon on the player's back, but in combat mode the player does not use it. Furthermore the weapon cannot be unequipped.

There seems to be no command to assign a weapon to the player ( https://wiki.arx-libertatis.org/Script:Commands )

Can I attach the weapon to the player's hand or would that be always visible even when the weapon is holstered?

[meszaros-lajos-gyorgy]

The equip command can be used, but the weapon needs to be spawned first and the equip needs to be triggered from the weapon:

spawn item weapons/bone_weap/bone_weap marker_0001
<weapon_id>.equip player

Remaining questions before the method can be marked as fully implementable into the arena custom map:

1. how do you get the created item's id?
2. how do you check, if the player already holds a weapon?
3. how do you get the id of the weapon the player is holding?
4. can you prevent unequipping a weapon?
5. can you detect when the player unequipped a weapon and maybe get the item's id?

[meszaros-lajos-gyorgy]

Answers:

1. Using the ^last_spawned global readonly variable
2. You don't, you need to store the ^last_spawned id in a variable
3. when equipping a new weapon the old will be dragged and you can call destroy on it using the variable created at 2)
4. ?
5. ON EQUIPOUT is triggered, but the weapon id needs to be get from the variable created at 2)

[meszaros-lajos-gyorgy]

The equip command can be triggered by sending an inventoryuse event. Gluing the spawning together with equipping creates this one-liner:

spawn item "weapons/sabre_meteor/sabre_meteor" player sendevent inventoryuse ~^last_spawned~ nop

[meszaros-lajos-gyorgy]

another issue: can't equip the weapon, if the stats are no met (the sabre needs 8 strength)

[meszaros-lajos-gyorgy]

yet another issue: if the player is in combat mode, then the weapon is not being equipped. Any other ways to trigger the equip command from within the weapon?

[meszaros-lajos-gyorgy]

This is what I have so far for the player to make sure that it remembers the previously added weapon and destroying it upon changing the weapon:

// player.asl
ON INIT {
  SET £lastEquippedWeaponId "none"
  ACCEPT
}

ON CHANGE_WEAPON {
  if (£lastEquippedWeaponId != "") {
    destroy £lastEquippedWeaponId
  }
  spawn item "weapons/~^$PARAM1~/~^$PARAM1~" player
  sendevent INVENTORYUSE ~^last_spawned~ nop
  set £lastEquippedWeaponId ~^last_spawned~
  ACCEPT
}

And triggering a weapon change looks like this:

// param1:weaponType = "club"
// param2:damage = 1
sendevent change_weapon player "club 1"