Firing a projectile from a projectile creates issue

gellyware

I have a mechanic in my game where when the player hits an enemies projectile with the players projectile, it "returns" the projectile back at the boss.

In reality, what's happening is that I destroy the enemies projectile ...
then fire the same projectile the boss sent back at them from the players projectile (this looked better than sending it from the enemies projectile)
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But since the players projectile is being destroyed , it's logging the attached script errors. How can I fix this?

Slayer

@Justin Reading the documentation for fire_projectile it states that a coordinate can be a valid input for source, however when I try this , it produces "SCRIPT ERROR:" in the terminal window.

fire_projectile("ITEM_0002", coord[2, 2, 10], player);
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Is this a bug and it's supposed to work?
or am I misunderstanding what the docs mean by Source allowing a coordinate?

The reason I ask is because Gellyware's idea would work best if they could just fire the projectile from the coordinate of the projectile's last known position at the time of impact, and from reading the documentation, it would suggest that should be possible.

[if bug, I shall put forward a report if needs be.]

MadManMoody

Slayer

This happened to me as well when attempting to use a Coordinate as a source recently. Same error in the terminal as well. I worked around this by firing the projectile from an entity instead. (A tile entity)

Justin

Slayer Yeah, a coordinate is intended to work as the source in this function, so a bug report would be great. Thanks for checking, Slayer!

gellyware

MadManMoody Right, but that's not the problem. Read above, my firing entity is being destroyed and causing a script error since it no longer exists and something behind the scenes is looking for it. The fix would be either to allow for coordinates per the documentation or handle situations where the source no longer exists.