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

[BiscuitSlash]

Nope, it's still doing lots of damage. The ripper flag must be there to stop it from leaving upon contact. Even when set to 0 damage it will do lots of damage. Something tells me it has something to do with the RadiusThrust doing the damage. Anyway of avoiding that?

[Korby]

Try commenting out RadiusThrust to see if it really is your problem.

[BiscuitSlash]

Well, it turns out I forgot to put "Goto pain+1" after the custom pain state, which pain.Gravity happened to be fight after. No wonder it kept pushing me down! (I'm not too sure if whether or not that derpy feeling is good or bad).

Just need to heavily edit it now. Thanks again everyone!

EDIT: Ack, it's still doing damage! I don't know what it is but there's is SOMETHING there that is being annoying. Here's the coding for the weapon and the painstate:

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actor BlowCycloneWep : MegaBuster 17005
{
Weapon.AmmoUse 2
Weapon.AmmoGive 28
Weapon.SlotNumber 2
Obituary "%o got blown around by %k's Blow Cyclone."
Inventory.Pickupmessage "Power up! Blow Cyclone!"
weapon.ammotype "BlowCycloneAmmo"
inventory.pickupsound "weapon/weaponup"
inventory.icon "BLOWIC"
+WEAPON.AMMO_OPTIONAL
Scale 2.0
States
{
Spawn:
BCYC G 1
loop
Ready:
BCYC A 0 ACS_ExecuteAlways(998,0,175)
BCYC A 1 A_WeaponReady
Goto Ready+1
Deselect:
TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 0 A_Lower
BCYC A 1
Loop
Select:
TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 0 A_Raise
BCYC A 1
Loop
Fire:
BCYC A 0 A_JumpIfNoAmmo("NoAmmo")
BCYC A 0 A_PlaySoundEx("weapon/scorchwheel","Weapon")
BCYC B 0 A_FireCustomMissile("BlowCyclone",0,1,8,0)
BCYC B 0 A_FireCustomMissile("BlowCyclone",180,0,8,0)
BCYC BCDEF 3
BCYC A 45
BCYC D 0 A_Refire
Goto Ready+1
NoAmmo:
BCYC D 1 ACS_Execute(979,0)
Goto Ready+1
}
}


actor BlowCycloneAmmo : Ammo
{
inventory.amount 1
inventory.maxamount 28
}

actor BlowCyclone : MageStaffFX2
{
PROJECTILE
+RIPPER
+SEEKERMISSILE
Damage (0)
height 26
radius 20
speed 23
//damagetype "Blow"
scale 2.5
States
{
Spawn:
BCYC H 2 //A_RadiusThrust (340000, 36, 0)
BCYC I 2 A_MStaffTrack
loop
}
}


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Pain.SpikeShock:
PLAY H 0 A_JumpIfInventory("ShockGuardForever",1,"ShockSuccess")
goto Death
ShockSuccess:
PLAY H 0
PLAY H 0
PLAY H 0 A_GiveInventory("ShockGuardTemp",1)
PLAY H 1 HealThing(1)
PLAY H 0 A_TakeInventory("ShockGuardForever",1)
goto pain+1
//End New lines.
Pain.Blow:
PLAY H 0 A_ChangeFlag("PUSHABLE",1)
PLAY H 0 HealThing(1)
PLAY H 0 A_ChangeFlag("PUSHABLE",0)
Goto pain+1
Pain.Gravity:
PLAY H 0 ThrustThingZ(0,150,1,0)
PLAY H 0 A_JumpIf(z-floorz>180,"GravityForce4")
PLAY H 0 A_JumpIf(z-floorz>128,"GravityForce3")
PLAY H 0 A_JumpIf(z-floorz>32,"GravityForce2")
PLAY H 0 A_JumpIf(z-floorz>8,"GravityForce1")
Goto pain+1
By the looks of things, this should be doing NO damage at all, right?

[Trollman]

If it doesn't do damage, then shouldn't it lack a damagetype? (Sorry if it wouldn't work or something like that I am using common sense).

[BiscuitSlash]

The damage type is only there so that in this case, it always switches the class flag to "PUSHABLE" whenever needed so that the radiusthrust can push them, but it might not even be necessary. I firstly need to nail down the problem of this thing doing damage, as even with all the damage and radiusthrust turned off, it still does random amounts of damage which can't really happen for this weapon.

[Hallan Parva]

Bump for Yo-Yo

I want to make a projectile change directions and start to fly backwards like Shadow Blade, but there's a catch: I want the direction change to be "gradual". This means I want the projectile to slowly come to a halt, then slowly speed up in the opposite direction. I don't want the projectile to just "jump" and start instantly moving backwards like Shadow Blade.

Any ideas on how to do this? :?

Thanks for passing by me, bro

[BiscuitSlash]

Well....you could try making 100 projectiles....

[Ukiyama]

Wait a minute, didn't yo-yo just go 3 forward, stop, and come back at the same speed... well anyway since shadow blade return is just it making a 180 degree turn which it is another object, I guess you could make like 7 actors of the yo yo that gradually decrease in spead then 7 more to speed back up, unless there is some flag like A_ScaleVelocity or something.

[Hallan Parva]

Wait a minute, didn't yo-yo just go 3 forward, stop, and come back at the same speed...

Nope. It started off fast, but when the Yo-Yo approached the third panel it slows down instead of suddenly stopping.

I'll try the multi-actor method, but I was looking for an easier fix. I still have nightmares over Hub Style and his 62 projectile checks.... ugh.

[Ukiyama]

My newer version of Squeeze Bomb has 12 different actors so it scales up slowly and that didn't take very long to be honest, once ya make one just copy and paste, make a few minor adjustments and it should be quick, (might not be the most efficient by any means but I think it would work just fine).

[Gummywormz]

Try playing with the already mentioned A_ScaleVelocity.

[BiscuitSlash]

So how do I make this projectile NOT do damage? (Right now with this coding it is.)

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actor BlowCycloneWep : MegaBuster 17005
{
Weapon.AmmoUse 2
Weapon.AmmoGive 28
Weapon.SlotNumber 2
Obituary "%o got blown around by %k's Blow Cyclone."
Inventory.Pickupmessage "Power up! Blow Cyclone!"
weapon.ammotype "BlowCycloneAmmo"
inventory.pickupsound "weapon/weaponup"
inventory.icon "BLOWIC"
+WEAPON.AMMO_OPTIONAL
Scale 2.0
States
{
Spawn:
BCYC G 1
loop
Ready:
BCYC A 0 ACS_ExecuteAlways(998,0,175)
BCYC A 1 A_WeaponReady
Goto Ready+1
Deselect:
TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 0 A_Lower
BCYC A 1
Loop
Select:
TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 0 A_Raise
BCYC A 1
Loop
Fire:
BCYC A 0 A_JumpIfNoAmmo("NoAmmo")
BCYC A 0 A_PlaySoundEx("weapon/scorchwheel","Weapon")
BCYC B 0 A_FireCustomMissile("BlowCyclone",0,1,8,0)
BCYC B 0 A_FireCustomMissile("BlowCyclone",180,0,8,0)
BCYC BCDEF 3
BCYC A 45
BCYC D 0 A_Refire
Goto Ready+1
NoAmmo:
BCYC D 1 ACS_Execute(979,0)
Goto Ready+1
}
}


actor BlowCycloneAmmo : Ammo
{
inventory.amount 1
inventory.maxamount 28
}

actor BlowCyclone : MageStaffFX2
{
PROJECTILE
Radius 20
Height 20
scale 2.5
damage (0)
damagetype "Blow"
+FORCEXYBILLBOARD
+RIPPER
+SEEKERMISSILE
speed 21
States
{
Spawn:
BCYC H 2
BCYC I 2 A_MStaffTrack
loop
}
}


[Max]

-SOLID

I'd reccomend RadiusThrust instead of Damagetypes (especially since your projectile is supposed to do no damage).

[BiscuitSlash]

Nope, it can still damage them, even when I set the height and radius to 0. The damage it does is usually around 40 for some reason. Does it have anything to do with that MageStaff tracking?

[xColdxFusionx]

Nope, it can still damage them, even when I set the height and radius to 0. The damage it does is usually around 40 for some reason. Does it have anything to do with that MageStaff tracking?

Thrusting someone into a wall deals damage to them. That's why enemies die when you run at them with Leaf Shield on.