Extended Weapon Bobbing Properties

[Xaser]

Finally decided to tackle this oft-requested feature. It's a bit more polished and extensive than Ryan's patch in the linked thread (thanks for the reference though), most notably also including a "range" multiplier for the Y axis and proper savegame support.

This patch adds the following actor properties to the Weapon class:

• Weapon.BobStyle -- The type of bobbing to use. Default is "Normal." Other types described below.
• Weapon.BobSpeed -- Bobbing speed multiplier. Affects how quickly the bobbing motion occurs. Default is 1.0.
• Weapon.BobRangeX -- Range multiplier for horizontal bobbing.
• Weapon.BobRangeY -- Same as the above, only for vertical bobbing.

Weapon.BobStyle can be any of "Normal", "Inverse", "Alpha", "InverseAlpha", "Smooth", or "InverseSmooth". "Alpha" is Doom 0.4/0.5 Alpha's linear bobbing style, "Smooth" is (naturally) a smoother version of the standard bobbing style, and the Inverse types are "vertically-flipped" versions of each. Each style is distinct -- for example, though both "Inverse" and "Alpha" bob in a similar fashion, Inverse's pattern is upside-down-U-shaped while Alpha bobs linearly, like an upside-down V.

The other properties are implemented as fixed point multipliers since they either have meaningless default values as integers (speed) or are influenced by CVARs in a way that prevents integral values from being feasible (range).

Finally, here's a zip with the patch and an example wad that replaces some of the default weapons with ones that show off a variety of different bobbing types & properties:

xa-bob.zip

Extended bobbing patch + example wad.

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[Jimmy]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Xtyfe]

holy shit dipped sticks of shit, this is awesome

[Graf Zahl]

Can't be added without changes since it completely ignores savegame compatibility handling.

I don't have time to fix this now so it'll have to wait.

[Blue Shadow]

This's very nice indeed, though, could there be a menu option (could be in the hud menu?) to change the default bobbing style?

[Xaser]

Can't be added without changes since it completely ignores savegame compatibility handling.

I noticed that the new Accuracy/Stamina settings have a few lines in the form of "if (SaveVersion > ####)" -- is this what you mean? I'll make the necessary changes once I figure how the save version numbering is done.

[Xaser]

Well, that wasn't so hard. Saving+loading between versions seems to be working fine now. Updated patch:

[NeuralStunner]

This's very nice indeed, though, could there be a menu option (could be in the hud menu?) to change the default bobbing style?

Indeed, default style and ranges. One could be rid of weaponized hypnotism on a global basis.

[Enjay]

I like the hypnotising sway.

Seriously, this is a welcome submission. I haven't really messed with weapon bobbing hacks at all but these options being a proper part of the game will make tailoring the weapon bob much more interesting.

I wonder, do the bobs differ between crouched and uncrouched and can they be scaled according to the speed that the player moves? I'm guessing probably not but those might be nice options at some point, if they're possible.

[NeuralStunner]

I think the engine somewhat scales on its own. Attempting to walk into a wall results in very little weapon movement, for example.

[Graf Zahl]

ok, that was better

[Nash]

Thank you so much for this Xaser! Now I don't have to rely on hard-coded stuff for my project anymore. :D

Any chance of you doing a tweakable "movebob" for the player? There are several open threads related to it...

[Xaser]

It's probably possible to add as a multiplier similarly to how weapon bob is done now. At one point I was also looking at adding a way to modify player acceleration as well, and those two combined might be useful for that dungeon crawler of yours.

Don't get your hopes up too soon, though. I tend to choose very randomly what to work on at any given moment.

[CaptainToenail]

Oh wow, pure sex.

I expect this to be a staple of all weapon mods now. This could be extremely handy for giant mech player classes, tanks etc. where the original bobbing is just silly. Nice one.

edit: I haven't actually tried this patch, but can you make vertical bobbing only using the above options? Like Quake's silly up and down weapon bobbing?

[Xaser]

Sure can. Just set Weapon.BobRangeX to zero and adjust Weapon.BobSpeed/Weapon.BobRangeY to suit. If you want sine-wave-like Y-bobbing, you'll be most interested in the "Smooth" BobStyle.