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Graf Zahl wrote:If you give yourself a Raven Shadowsphere in Doom and then fire the chaingun you may see something not so nice but it's an inevitable limitation.

TheDarkArchon wrote:Alpha's a float, not an integer.

Graf Zahl wrote:Theoretically ok, but since multiple weapon sprite layers are not implemented this may take a while to get to.

Also keep in mind that weapon rendering inherits its render style from the player so there's more complex issues to be considered. If you give yourself a Raven Shadowsphere in Doom and then fire the chaingun you may see something not so nice but it's an inevitable limitation.

Lioyd_Irving wrote: A_CustomFlash(str statement, int layer [, int renderstyle [, int alpha]])
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Ghastly_dragon wrote:Er, heh, unless I'm mistaken, a bool is either 0 or 1 (false and true), so 'bool renderstyle' would cause a lot of problems .

Ghastly_dragon wrote:Er, heh, unless I'm mistaken, a bool is either 0 or 1 (false and true), so 'bool renderstyle' would cause a lot of problems .

DBThanatos wrote: didnt know it could handle 1,234,567,890 sprites (joke)

Lioyd_Irving wrote:...just 1234567890 sprites...

Grimm wrote:Actually, upon thinking about it, this would be a GREAT way to save space in WAD files.

ALSO! This could allow things like bullet meters to be implemented easily. Currently you'd have to include 666 different sprites for one gun if you wanted to do something like have a bullet readout right on the gun (ala Doom 3). With this, you could just have the meter itself included and placed over the gun. (You could, of course, do this already with a_GunFlash, but then you'd have nothing to do muzzle flahses with. While that may not be a big deal with a gun with 4 different sprites or so, when guns have larger ones, trust me, it makes a HUGE difference. )

I fully support this idea.