SpecialWeapons Question [Solved]

[pjlasl]

I am trying to learn how to use the specialweapons property.
I have added a couple different ones and they show up in the ufopaedia, but I am not sure how to access them in the battlescape.

Can someone help?

[ohartenstein23]

"Special Weapons" are just another way to access a weapon that isn't placing a gun in a soldier's hand. To get them to appear, you need:

• To define the weapon as a specialWeapon on either an armor or on a unit for HWPs
• To add specialIconSprite or specialUseEmptyHand on the weapon's item definition

[pjlasl]

With your explanation I figured out how to put it together!

Items:
   specialUseEmptyHand: true
   specialIconSprite: 2 # 0,1 used by SPICONS.DAT

extraSprites:
  - type: SPICONS.DAT
    width: 32
    height: 24
    files:
      2: Resources/Spicons1.gif