The "How do I make a weapon do that?" thread

[Hallan Parva]

Ah well, it's better than nothing. Thanks for the help, I'll go take a look at things.

[Max]

Pits deal "Falling" damage or something, so you could make a powerarmour that protects you from everything except that

[Beed28]

Skull Barrier used A_ChangeFlag to remove the SHOOTABLE flag from your character or something like that.

Also, Gamma's fireball didn't kill you in God Mode, although being squished flat by his feet did.

[Hallan Parva]

The towers created by the fireballs do ripping damage to you in God Mode. They can kill you in a few hits.

[Beed28]

Really? That didn't happen to me. The only things I knew that could kill you in God Mode were telefrags, Quickman's lasers, Metool Daddy and Gamma stepping on you.

Nowadays, I always type in "give lmsinvincible" (which removes the SHOOTABLE flag like Skull Barrier does, only it does not give it back again) as an extra precaution after activating God Mode.

[Hallan Parva]

Alright, new question.

Does anyone know how to instantly stop a player's movement? Looking at Classes and such I noticed that all attacks that make the player "stop" actually make the player sort of slow down or skid to a halt instead of an instantaneous change to zero momentum. I also want to know how to "hold" this zero momentum for a period of time, because I know Super Arm instant-stops you when you pick up the block, yet you immediately start falling after lifting said block.

Hopefully this will be the last question for a while.

[Max]

A_Stop

[Hallan Parva]

DEEEEEEEERRRRRRRPPPPPPPPP

thanks bro

[Jennifer]

not related to weapons but whatever

Is it possible to have a player "die" (complete with the "killer" getting a message and earning a frag), but come "back to life" shortly after dying? This means that the revived player will retain any weapons / items / etc they had before dying. It's not a simple respawn or anything.

Also, is it possible for a weapon to take a frag AWAY from its victim upon a successful kill?

Just wondering, are you basing a weapon off of the Dead Ringer?

[Hallan Parva]

DEAD RINGER.

... Well, I was TRYING to do it anyway. It's just too darn complicated.

boy are you late to the party

[Hallan Parva]

nearly one-month bump

Does anyone know what causes Junk Shield to lag so badly? All I want from the weapon is the "turtle shelling" effect the sprites cause. Is there a way to duplicate the circular sprite motion without making so much lag? Again, I just want the effect; I don't need solid actors or ripping projectiles or anything players even have to interact with, for that matter.

[Russel]

it spawns 3 actors every tic and loops, none of these actors are client-sided so that's why

about your whole Dead Ringer idea, there are ways to do that

easy way: ACS for the obituary, and set a "flag" on the weapon that will spawn an explosion from the player and give a powerinvis

This may of may not work but...hey I guess it's worth a shot

[Russel]

Sorry to double post, I have a question

How do I check next weapon button in ACS?

(I have been looking for BT_ or something...vague, I know...)

[BiscuitSlash]

Me again.

I want to make my weapon move forward a bit, then stop, then home in on a player. So far it's just going forwards a bit then disappearing after about 2-3 seconds.

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actor Kamaitachiblade
{
PROJECTILE
+DONTBLAST
Radius 6
Height 5
scale 2.5
damage (21)
+FORCEXYBILLBOARD
damagetype "Kama"
speed 32
States
{
Spawn:
KAMA ABABABAB 2
KAMA A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("KamaPause",0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
stop
}
}

actor KamaPause
{
PROJECTILE
+DONTBLAST
+LOOKALLAROUND
Radius 6
Height 5
scale 2.5
damage (22)
+FORCEXYBILLBOARD
damagetype "Kama"
speed 0
States
{
Spawn:
KAMA ABABAB 2 A_Look
KAMA A 0 A_FaceTarget
KAMA A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("KamaChaser",0,0,0,37,0,0,0)
stop
}
}

actor KamaChaser : MageStaffFX2
{
PROJECTILE
+DONTBLAST
+SEEKERMISSILE
-EXTREMEDEATH
+LOOKALLAROUND
Radius 6
Height 5
scale 2.5
damage (24)
+FORCEXYBILLBOARD
damagetype "Kama"
speed 37
States
{
Spawn:
KAMA AB 3 A_MStaffTrack
KAMA A 0
loop
}
}


Yeah I did sort of look at the King Yamato quick boomerang, but I can't exactly see what it is that I need to change.

[Hallan Parva]

You need to have at least one tic of duration in the areas where you spawn things.

Alternatively, you could set the Death state to spawn the next object in the sequence.

If you set an XDeath state, then the standard Death state will only apply if the projectile doesn't hit a player.

It's how AquaGuts' charge Bubbler attack works, to prevent the infamous "Double Lead" problem of hitting twice.