NORANDOMPUFFZ

[TheFortuneTeller]

These two flags disable the random z offset of bullet puffs.

[Nash]

YES YES YES OMG YES PLEASE YES

[Xaser]

This does make more sense to add as a flag to A_FireBullets and relevant functions, IMO. This is most definitely a useful option, though. Legit laser sights might actually become a thing now.

[TheFortuneTeller]

This does make more sense to add as a flag to A_FireBullets and relevant functions, IMO. This is most definitely a useful option, though. Legit laser sights might actually become a thing now.

That's what I'm using it for. It works perfectly.

[TheFortuneTeller]

Updated. It is now a flag for A_FireBullets and A_CustomBulletAttack.

EDIT: Also, why were those ever two different functions?

[Blox]

Well one is for weapons, while the other is used for monsters.

[TheFortuneTeller]

Yes, I see now. For some reason I posted the question and then went to find out myself. Thanks, though.

[Xtyfe]

Do rail functions have this problem too? Are they not hitscans that use puffs too? This should be considered for them as well if so

Edit - Also Player melee attacks are hitscans that use puffs, same thing too?

[TheFortuneTeller]

You are right about melee attacks. I've updated the patch and thread title.

I'm not really sure about the current situation with rail attacks, so I'll hold off on that for now.

[Graf Zahl]

added in r4170.

[Enjay]

I'm not really sure about the current situation with rail attacks, so I'll hold off on that for now.

Puffs can be allocated in [wiki]A_RailAttack[/wiki] but by default they don't normally appear. You use them to give the rail damage types in a similar way to how puffs do this for other hitscan attacks. You can opt to have them appear though. Quite how they behave when they do appear, I don't know.

[Nash]

I tried this but it doesn't seem to work. I don't have time to isolate the relevant code to demonstrate my trouble with getting it work right now so... can anyone post a simple demo that shows that this works?

I am calling A_FireBullets from an inventory item that the player auto-uses every tic (called by a looping ACS script and UseInventory()).

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Actor Z_SunScanner : ArtiEgg
{    
    +INVENTORY.QUIET
    +INVENTORY.UNDROPPABLE
    +INVENTORY.HUBPOWER
    +INVENTORY.PERSISTENTPOWER
    -INVENTORY.INVBAR
    -INVENTORY.PICKUPFLASH
    Inventory.Amount 1
    Inventory.MaxAmount 1
    States
    {
        Use:
            TNT1 A 0 A_FireBullets(ACS_NamedExecuteWithResult("Script_SunScannerHorizontal") - angle + 180,
                                    ACS_NamedExecuteWithResult("Script_SunScannerVertical"),
                                    2,
                                    0,
                                    "Z_SunScannerPuff",
                                    FBF_NORANDOM | FBF_EXPLICITANGLE | FBF_NOFLASH | FBF_NOPITCH | FBF_NORANDOMPUFFZ, 0)
            Stop
    }
}

The puff object "Z_SunScannerPuff" is still randomly jumping up and down upon collision with anything in the world.

[Blue Shadow]

I confirm; it doesn't work.

Here, run this.

[Nash]

Right. Had some spare time today so I threw this together real quick. Feature isn't working.

[TheFortuneTeller]

Some of the changes are missing in the source code update. You can look at the changelog and see that some of the lines from the patch are missing.