To Make Burning Fire "Burn" Player

[lightman68]

Hi...

Tsup...

I'm trying to make a Molotov Cocktail for a WAD and I'm trying to figure out how to make the fire from the Molotov burn a player even after getting out of the fire (which would mean they are burning). I've tried making all these sorts of things like custom inventories but I can't find out the solution.

I'm aiming to make the Molotov's fire burn the player for like around 2-4 seconds while taking away 2 health points every second or so. Can someone please assist, I'm stuck .

[DBThanatos]

You could just make an ACS script that does precisely that. On the other hand, you could also play with A_Warp, to create a projectile that "sticks" to player, calling a tiny A_Explode as many times as you want, and you could even spawn some fire FX to sell the idea better.

[AFADoomer]

Wouldn't it be easier to use the PoisonDamage actor property on your fire?

http://zdoom.org/wiki/Actor_properties#PoisonDamage

[lightman68]

You could just make an ACS script that does precisely that. On the other hand, you could also play with A_Warp, to create a projectile that "sticks" to player, calling a tiny A_Explode as many times as you want, and you could even spawn some fire FX to sell the idea better.

Awesomeness, thanks for the help. I'll see what I can do.

[lightman68]

Wouldn't it be easier to use the PoisonDamage actor property on your fire?

http://zdoom.org/wiki/Actor_properties#PoisonDamage

Hmm, that also might work. I'll still see what the outcome is. Thank you for the help also.