I have a system set up whereby when certain monsters are killed, they set themselves solid, unshootable, height 1 and health 1.
They enter a state looping waiting to be "killed" again when a missile hits them (a script will set all such objects on the map to be shootable, remove the CORPSE flag and give them a sensible height just before it happens).
However, I cannot get the missile to interact with them Yet if I use a script to explicitly damage them, it works fine.
The issue is that it must be the missile that triggers their "final" death, as the script would simply do it for all of them at the same time. There are several missiles being fired around the map from the epicenter, and corpses further away from the epicentre should detonate later than the ones near the missile source, as the missile spread fans out.
Basically, corpses that can be destroyed if something of sufficient damage hits them.
Am I doing something really silly here to make it not work, or is there some minimally documented thing done in the engine to dead things?
Destructable corpses
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Re: Destructable corpses
The way you're wording it implies that these missiles are moving in a generally horizontal direction but your corpses are height 1. Are they even hitting?
How are you changing health? Setting health directly ("health=1;", etc.) will result in undesired side effects.
As far as I'm aware the corpse cannot be made to enter into a pain or death state without overriding DamageMobj, which I think would be the cleanest way to do this anyway.
How are you changing health? Setting health directly ("health=1;", etc.) will result in undesired side effects.
As far as I'm aware the corpse cannot be made to enter into a pain or death state without overriding DamageMobj, which I think would be the cleanest way to do this anyway.
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Re: Destructable corpses
Well this is in DECORATE rather than ZScript. I think the way I was originally trying to do it is one of the "DON'T DO THAT"'sMatt wrote:The way you're wording it implies that these missiles are moving in a generally horizontal direction but your corpses are height 1. Are they even hitting?
How are you changing health? Setting health directly ("health=1;", etc.) will result in undesired side effects.
As far as I'm aware the corpse cannot be made to enter into a pain or death state without overriding DamageMobj, which I think would be the cleanest way to do this anyway.
What I have now seems to work, so maybe I have hit on the right thing after all. Needs more testing to be sure though.