Ammo for custom guns

After adding custom guns to our sever we then planned on adding some ammo to suit these weapons, or in turn make the weapon able to use that ammo. Unfortunately I don't really know anything about how I would go around doing this.

If someone could help or even tell me how I would go around making some ammo for these custom guns, or tell me how I can add a weapon to use the existing ammo I will be very grateful.

 

I assume the custom weapons are from a swep, locate to the swep and look for:
schema/entities/weapons, usually.

SWEP.Primary.Ammo

There you will be able to determine what the ammunition type is for the weapon for example,

SWEP.Primary.Ammo = "buckshot";

Then you want to go to your items directory in your schema and edit/create an ammunition item like this for example,

local ITEM = Clockwork.item:New("ammo_base"); This is the base used for ammunition.
ITEM.base = "ammo_base";
ITEM.name = "Buckshot Rounds";
ITEM.model = "models/items/boxbuckshot.mdl";
ITEM.weight = 0.5;
ITEM.uniqueID = "ammo_buckshot";
ITEM.ammoClass = "buckshot"; This calls the ammo class for the item.
ITEM.business = true;
ITEM.ammoAmount = 12;
ITEM.description = "A small red box filled with Buckshot on the side.";

ITEM:Register();

ITEM.uniqueID = "ammo_buckshot"; - Just a unique Identification for the item, just go from what item you are using in this case ammo_buckshot. If it's a weapon or another form of ammunition then use ammo/weapon then _Weapon or Ammo (lowercase). Up to you what you name it.

If you look in other ammunition items that you have in your schema you will see there are other types of ammunition that can be used:

buckshot - Shotguns.
357 - Magnums and the such.
pistol - Self explanatory.
rpg_round - Rocket Launchers.
smg1 - Machine-guns and such.
ar2 - Sniper ammunition/Pulse Rifle and such.
xbowbolt - Usually used for Crossbows.

But some of these are used in different ways, it all depends what the sweps ammunition class is, which you can find out from what I said above. Hopefully I explained this clear enough and correctly.

 

In addition to the above post, you can use game.AddAmmoType to add custom ammo types. Create an ent for your ammo type and you're good to go. That's what I'm doing for my custom pack.