Projectile that gives a monster Z-Velocity?

[Mini--Joe]

I'm trying to make a weapon that has multiple attacks, and one of them is an uppercut. I made the attack shoot out an invisible projectile, and I'm trying to get that projectile to launch monsters upwards. I've tried ThrustThingZ, but clearly that does not work. Any tips?

[Caligari87]

If it "clearly doesn't work" then you're likely doing something wrong, as that's pretty much the kind of thing "ThrustThingZ" is designed to do. Please post the relevant code (using the

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 and [spoiler] tags, or pastebin if necessary) so we can see what you're doing and provide some advice.

8-)

[Mini--Joe]

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                          Actor upperpunchBullet
										{
											Radius 2
											Height 2
											Speed 10
											Damage (10)
											Deathsound "skeleton/melee"
											Projectile
											States
												{
													Spawn:
														TNT1 A 1 bright 
														loop
													Death:
														TNT1 A 1 bright ThrustThingZ(0,5000,0,1)
														stop
												}
										}

Here it is.

[Blue Shadow]

What you're doing there is changing the velocity of the projectile itself, not the thing it hit. To make it work, set the [wiki=Actor_flags#HITMASTER]HITMASTER[/wiki] flag on the projectile, and use [wiki]A_ChangeVelocity[/wiki] with the desired Z velocity value while passing AAPTR_MASTER as the ptr parameter.

[Mini--Joe]

Oh sweet, thank you so much! Works perfectly.

I looked at the actor pointers and "AAPTR_LINETARGET" also seems to work even when HITMASTER is not set.

[Blue Shadow]

I can't tell you anything about AAPTR_LINETARGET in this case. So unless you get confirmation that it's fine to use, I'd recommend that you stick with the HIT flag method.