Spell Fire, DCS2, etc

Can someone explain the differences between the scripts for melee weapons to me. Dumb question I know. But my main inquiry is can my swords, for exampe, which contain Spell Fire scripts, be used in conjunction with a DCS2 HUD and meter?
I would appreciate a bit of clarity on this, I cannot look at the scripts as they are naturally no mod, but it stands to reason they are only for the sheathing and poses, not the damage
Thank you for your attention!
Smoke
(btw. Smoke IS my RL nickname)

Hi smoke. Spell Fire uses a collision based damage system, so in effect, a sword is very much like a gun in that it shoots an invisible bullet. Spell Fire weapons could be used with DCS, as I understand it, but you would have to disable the "bullet" as DCS would see this as additional damage seperate from the sword swing (which must be done in mouselook, btw).

If your goal is to make a weapon compatible for both systems, I would think you would have to come up with a custom script to enable switching between the two systems.

Thanks, I will probably make two sets of swords then, do you know where I can get the DS2 weapons scripts?

DCS2 melee weapons don't use a specific script. Instead its meter monitors the AV controls for an arrow (or WASD) keypress while holding down the left mouse button so any weapon scripting you'd do would be for sheathing/running attack anims/particle effects/whatever. Also note that this also means that it's perfectly possible to attack someone in DCS2 without a weapon at all as the meter only cares about the controls, not any weapons per se. Now you might see weapons that are DCS2 enhanced, these do more damage and special attacks but are pretty much only sold by the DCS2 creators for obvious reasons. You can try contacting them about using something like that in your weapons in which case I wish you good luck.