Ray or Beam weapons

Lots of rifles machine guns and projectile weapons about...but has anyone seen a good 'ray' gun which projects a beam or burst of energy. I have the one laser pistol Ive managed to find (the sun beam) and a phaser from the original series of star trek but Im looking for something I can preferably see myself firing ...the others only work from my point of view in 'mouseview'. Im amazed with all the particle effects about that there don't seem to be more 'futuristic' weapons about.

ANy recommendations anyone ?

I'm the only person in sl who likes ray guns ???????????

The problem is that Second Life's damage and collision checking system requires you to hit the target avatar with a physical object. Although it's easy to create the visual effect of a beam, you'd have to manually trace it to the target, and you couldn't inflict SL standard damage on the target with a beam because that has to be done based on an object collision. It would also be "unfair" in many combat sims, because it would be impossible to defend against with a shield.

If you have a complete combat system that skips over SL entirely, you could make a ray gun (I believe that Wyvernclaw 3.0, and its combat system, has some ray attacks)..

I'm more interested in something that looks unique and is visually impressive than actually fighting with it. I thought sl would be full of futuristic weaponry.

I have three freebie 'ray' weapons, though I cant tell you what atm, as I cant go in-world where I am. They aren't horrible either.. so I promise there is some good stuff. Maybe just do a search in world for places, filter it to only shopping, and use the keywords 'Laser Gun'

Try searching SLX for 'laser' or 'ray gun'... you'll have to wade through a lot of club lighting systems and normal guns, but there were a few guns in there that might interest you.

I tossed together one once using the freebie revolver script, just made the bullets transparent with a No-Texture. Then have your laser particle effect activated when you do the left click thingee.

Interesting. Despite having all sorts of sci fi vehicles and space ships, I have nothing that works like a phaser or laser or ray gun.

Hmmm...let's see what we can do.....

I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Maybe if I ever get as far as figuring out what courses I need to learn how to do the clever stuff in sl I shall have a go myself although to be honest I look at how scripts are written and shy off at the prospect of having to tackle that complexity.

heyas;

somebody at the yongnam show and tell had a really impressive railgun a la doom/quake. including a 300 meter long spiral tracer effect. i'm really bad at names, so i have no clue who it was. but if you stop by sunday at 2, you can ask around.

i *believe* ive seen them for sale over.... next to the central av avatar mall section.