The "How do I..." Thread

[amv2k9]

HandGrenade.wad

How would I make the grenade in the wad I'm attaching come out from above the other sprites? When the grenade is thrown it comes out from under the hand that threw it, I want it to come from above it, so it looks like it was actually tossed.

I can't look at the code right now, but I'll give you some general pointers. Change the spawnheight in the call to A_FireCustomMissile. Also, since its a grenade, you probably want to give it some pitch, and maybe fool around with the grenade actor's Gravity property.

[insightguy]

how do you program the player actor to switch modes when you switch weapons?

anyone?

[cypherphage]

What do you mean "switch modes"?

[insightguy]

switch sprites. ex. player holding a rifle switches into player holding shotgun

[cypherphage]

A_SelectWeapon seems like what your looking for

[ChronoSeth]

No... I think he wants the player's sprites to change depending on which weapon is selected.

Which would require a whole lot of A_JumpIfInventory hacks, and even then it might not work right.

[Enjay]

Is it possible for the player HUD sprites to show the translation being used by the player? ie If I made some weapon sprites with green bits on them somewhere, could I make it so that the green bits changed to the colour that the player sprite has been set to in the options menu?

I think the answer is no but I just thought that I'd check.

[insightguy]

@enjay:
I don't think so either. tried and failed.

@ChronoSeth:
the guy who made super skulltag seems to have acomplished that. sarge mark from brutal doom also did it.

[cypherphage]

I am pretty sure that none of the hud drawing routines allow translations; although hudmessage allows for translation I am not sure it works with images. You best bet is probably the textures lump.

If you want the player to have different sprites based upon the weapon he is holding, look into playerpawn. I believe you would have to set up a new state per weapon for each state defined in the player pawn and jump to the correct one in each state. for instance

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//...
Spawn:
    PLAY A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("ShotgunSelected",1,"ShotgunSpawn")    // a check for each weapon like this
    ...
    PLAY A 4 //the final default sprite
   loop
ShotgunSpawn: //each state needs a custom like this
   PLAS A 4
   goto Spawn:
   ...


It would be a pain, so ask yourself how worth it it is

[ChronoSeth]

@ChronoSeth:
the guy who made super skulltag seems to have acomplished that

He used a specific feature in skulltag which allows it to easily be done. It's a lot more complicated in zdoom.

[insightguy]

may i ask what that feature is?

[jpalomo]

Weapon.PreferredSkin

[Xtyfe]

I'm wondering if it's currently possible to stack armor, like how is works in quake games. For example, green armor in quake2 gives 25 armor points but can be stacked to give 50.

[ChronoSeth]

A combination of CustomInventory, BasicArmorBonus, and A_JumpIfArmorType can achieve that effect with some trial and error.

[insightguy]

I am pretty sure that none of the hud drawing routines allow translations; although hudmessage allows for translation I am not sure it works with images. You best bet is probably the textures lump.

If you want the player to have different sprites based upon the weapon he is holding, look into playerpawn. I believe you would have to set up a new state per weapon for each state defined in the player pawn and jump to the correct one in each state. for instance

Code: Select all • Expand view

//...
Spawn:
    PLAY A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("ShotgunSelected",1,"ShotgunSpawn")    // a check for each weapon like this
    ...
    PLAY A 4 //the final default sprite
   loop
ShotgunSpawn: //each state needs a custom like this
   PLAS A 4
   goto Spawn:
   ...


It would be a pain, so ask yourself how worth it it is

won't be to much of a pain for me cause I can use the same token actors for my weapons for that.