[nyaculak]

Originally Posted by miw14

As for not using arcade drive for the shooter, what would you recommend?

You could use the victor.set(double speed) method. It works similar to the RobotDrive functions, expecting a value in the range of [-1, 1].

Better yet, you could use some object orientation magic to create a class that defines the behavior you want to see in your launcher. You can see team 53's implementation of this here.

For the future, it will help you tremendously to gain a solid working knowledge of Java and other programming languages. You'll have a much better understanding of your own code and the wpilib libraries if you learn object oriented programming.