A_SkullAttack not dealing damage

[Ravick]

Hi there.

I was toying around with DECORATE, and I've noticed that two of my monsters were not making any damage with A_SkullAttack. Here go their attack frames:

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Charge:
    TNT1 A 0 ThrustThingZ (0, 10, 0, 1)
	RABB C 8 A_FaceTarget
	RABB D 4 A_SkullAttack
	//
	TNT1 AAAAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("PurpleLight", 0, 0, random (3, 5), random (-5, 5), random (-5, 5), random (1, 2), 0, 0, 0)
	RABB D 5 A_Jump ("See", 20)
	Goto Charge+3

And:

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  Missile4:
    SPRI D 10 A_FaceTarget
	SPRI E 5 A_SkullAttack
	SPRI EE 4
	//SPRI D 0 A_JumpIfTargetInLOS ("Missile4", 270, JLOSF_CLOSENOFOV | JLOSF_DEADNOJUMP, 0, 0)
	TNT1 A 0 A_MonsterRefire (127, "See") 
    goto Missile4+1

(The //commented line is an old attempt to make it seek its target while charging.)


What am I making wrong?

Thanks in advanced!

[Apeirogon]

Did you define damage property on actor which must call skull attack function? Because it uses it to determine damage, IIRC.

[Graf Zahl]

Posting code fragments won't get you much help. I also suspect a missing damage property, but without the entire code that's merely a guess.

[Ravick]

Ok... feeling dumb now... '-'

I've just realized that all the times I've toyed around with A_SkullAttack, I had used inheritance from monsters that alread had "damage" property (just like the Lost Souls), and thus I've always belived that the function itself had a default damage value.

Thanks for answering, guys.