A way to achive headshots (demo attached)

Post by **Caligari87** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:24 am

Here's a small wad I made demonstrating how headshots, and by extension, dismemberment, would be possible.

It's very simple, with only a facing sprite zombie (too much work to do the rest for a demo). You can shoot his torso and kill him in ~2-5 shots, or just bust a cap in his head and kill him instantly.

this is just to demonstrate how easy this is and how it should be coded in the engine. My computer time is almost up, so I'll expound on that later.

Also, I included a lot of gore. Try shooting him with a rocket.

DomRem · Post by **DomRem** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:25 am

*slaps forehead*

Please fix your zip file. There's a reason the size says "0 Bytes."

HobbsTiger1 · Post by **HobbsTiger1** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:51 am

Post by **Caligari87** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:05 pm

Look back up

Post by **Caligari87** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:07 pm

This is really pissing me off. I think it's because the library computers can't read my USB drive. I'll fix this later...

Bashe · Post by **Bashe** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:52 pm

Please fix. I'm very very interested in this!

Gendo · Post by **Gendo** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:08 am

fix it fix it! me wanna try! *drools*

Wills · Post by **Wills** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:38 pm

Fix. This sounds awesome, hopefully you can upload the real thing.

anonone · Post by **anonone** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:16 am

Man, I want to see this too.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:31 am

I'm guessing it's just keeping an invisible actor which stays on the enemies head, and when that's killed it kills the actor below it.

Post by **Ryan Cordell** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:39 am

Try that http://www.yousendit.com website or something. X_x;

ace · Post by **ace** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:49 pm

Please fix this, I MUST see this!

Post by **Caligari87** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:09 am

cutmanmike wrote:I'm guessing it's just keeping an invisible actor which stays on the enemies head, and when that's killed it kills the actor below it.

Sort of...

It uses a zombie head sprite, kept centered over a headless zombie body. This way, if you want to dismember the zombie, you can! simply remove the script reference that kills the base actor, and you can blow zombie heads off, while their bodies follow you until destroyed. Obviously, this could be extended to arms, body segments, and possibly legs if you're ambitious.

The problem is all the TIDs involved, plus the constant moving / respawning stuff (took me ages), so this should be integrated into the code. I'm musing about possible DECORATE syntax so that if it's okayed, I'll have something to present that would make it useable.

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:20 am

I had the same idea for some *cough* projects I'm working on. Like this you can create Blood-like zombies with football heads.

David Ferstat · Post by **David Ferstat** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:57 am

Grubber wrote:I had the same idea for some *cough* projects I'm working on. Like this you can create Blood-like zombies with football heads.

Now they were fun!

Mind you, a hell of a lot of Blood was fun!