Friendly Arch-Vile that resurrects player

superscrungus · Post by **superscrungus** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:46 pm

Hiyo. Looking to add a friendly Arch-Vile to a wad I'm making, but I'm wondering how to make it actively seek out the player to resurrect them. I'm assuming the +FRIENDLY flag in decorate and AllowRespawn in mapinfo isn't enough to get it to do so. If it's even possible, of course.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:11 am

AV's cannot resurrect players. The engine simply does not allow that.

Arctangent · Post by **Arctangent** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:23 am

Out of curiosity, what are the main obstacles with that? I imagine the big one is the fact that a player can stop inhabiting a PlayerPawn, leaving it without a controller, but I imagine that can be worked around in more specific cases with quirks of their own design ( i.e. by making the vile ignore "empty" pawns, or having pawns that can be overtaken by AI when empty but alive ). Is there anything else that's a red flag?

Ravick · Post by **Ravick** » Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:23 am

I guess it'd be hacky as kludge's hell, but I'd try to achiev that by making monsters take health from player instead of inflicting damage. The player does not actually die when it happens, so my guess would be that it could be disguised as a real death by ACS and then disgued again as a resurrection when the modded arch gives player more health. I'm not sure, however, if the player will become to normal when receiving health again.

Also, monsters seems to not target zero health players, so I'd need to use more kludges as spawing a fake actor at player's death, so the archvile may target this actor to actually walk until "dead" player location.

[edit] It'd need to be tested, however. I'm not sure it'd work at all.

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