[Decorate] Charging then Loop attack

[XLightningStormL]

Messy title aside, I'm recreating the Shambler from Quake for Resurrected Nightmare, and I've come to the issue of it's attack functionality. Essentially much like Quake, the Shambler starts off by Charging the attack, then "looping it" a-la Chaingunner refire (as long as the player remains in view), after the player flees from it's "FOV" it does the standard Doom "finding the player"/See stuff etc.

So:
- Find Player
- When Player is found, it attacks.
- Section for the charge.
- Refire Section.
- Back to finding player.

Note: If you want a sprite name, just use "SHAM".

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

So... what's your question and at what point are you starting to have issues?

You can provide charging animation at the beginning of the Missile state, then the firing animation, and after A_CPosRefire you put goto Missile+# and use the number to tell which frame to jump to (skipping the charging animation). In fact, Chaingunguy does the same, except its 'charging' animation is only 1 frame long.

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  Missile:
    CPOS E 10 A_FaceTarget 
    CPOS FE 4 Bright A_CPosAttack // Jumps back here as long as target is in view<--...
    CPOS F 1 A_CPosRefire // 
    Goto Missile+1 //---...