Adding a kick state that's decoupled from weapons
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Adding a kick state that's decoupled from weapons
Question is super specific, but I'm wondering if there's a way to add a kick state to the player themselves so that it doesn't rely on the player having a weapon to do it. Ideally it'd be used so that players can't cancel mid animation by dropping their weapon. Right now I have it set up so that a parent actor has all the kicking states and the child weapons inherit from it. ZScripting unfortunately can't be used for compatibility reasons, but ACS is allowed.
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Re: Adding a kick state that's decoupled from weapons
Maybe this can be used as a reference: BD Kick Attack as individual wad
Re: Adding a kick state that's decoupled from weapons
Indeed it can. It uses a script to give the player a kick weapon and a kicking item, does the kick and removes the kick item at the end which the script then sees and removes the kick weapon and swaps you back to the weapon you were using. I was actually thinking of doing something similar but didn't know how to save which weapon the player had so it knew what to switch back to. Knowing GetWeapon() is a thing is pretty helpful.
Will using stop at the end of the final state completely remove the weapon from the player's inventory? If so, you could even skip the kicking item and just detect if the player has the weapon.
Will using stop at the end of the final state completely remove the weapon from the player's inventory? If so, you could even skip the kicking item and just detect if the player has the weapon.
Re: Adding a kick state that's decoupled from weapons
[wiki]CustomInventory[/wiki] can run [wiki]A_Overlay[/wiki] so theoretically it's possible to have the kick execute without even taking your gun weapon away. You'd need to script the weapon to hide/be disabled when the CI is active, then remove the CI when the kick animation is done and restore normal weapon function.
Re: Adding a kick state that's decoupled from weapons
That's a pretty interesting solution. I find the above script works well, however (especially for Zandronum since state management is a nightmare when programming for online play), mainly because it lets me add the mighty foot as its own weapon that players can select (it's not something you'll normally be able to do, but it is a fun easter egg).