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I just want to make a request: add a variable to A_CustomRailgun, in which you could modify the railgun range. This could also be good for running memory, avoiding weirdness railgun shots on very large room maps.

What do you mean by range? I'm not understanding.

I think he means a maximum distance the rail would travel, similar to what's in A_FireBullets.

Daniel wrote:This could also be good for running memory, avoiding weirdness railgun shots on very large room maps.

For this reason it's useless because the "weirdness" is caused by the value of the cvar r_maxparticles. If it's low, the railgun won't display if it's shot really far away (but the shot will still count). You should make it a higher value on the console to stop it happening.

However, a railgun range might be good for other things such as a laser weapon or something.

Cutmanmike wrote:However, a railgun range might be good for other things such as a laser weapon or something.

How about just a Beam function for that? Something like "A_Beam(texture, damage, range, use-ammo, alpha, render-mode, blah-blah)"?

Cutmanmike wrote:However, a railgun range might be good for other things such as a laser weapon or something.

How about just a Beam function for that? Something like "A_Beam(texture, damage, range, use-ammo, alpha, render-mode, blah-blah)"?

Yep, what would be really handy for the railgun functions would be range, particle graphic, particle fade time, and if it stops as soon as it hits a target instead of going right through.

Unless you're talking about ranbow-colored Railguns or something like that, Eriance, I don't see how texture would work outside of GZDoom.

Range for A_CustomRailgun could be useful for a lot of things, not just for the "bug from long range". You can even make melee laser-like weapons...

So Graf, how about it?

Interesting to see how many old railgun feature suggestions are still open. This one's yet another that's in now and can be safely closed.

Eriance wrote:How about just a Beam function for that? Something like "A_Beam(texture, damage, range, use-ammo, alpha, render-mode, blah-blah)"?

Noob...what kinda suggestion is that? :/ GTFO.

Eriance, this is just for you.

That widescreen weapon handling is glorious.

Also, AMMO TYPES

Wasn't my fault. That's how the graphics came. I was only trying to give Eriance an alternative means to a "customized" rail effect using projectiles and A_Warp.

You can easily look for the gluon gun's code and see how it's done. It was actually pretty simple (including a rotating outer beam too!) in AEons of Death.