Aiming with holding down altfire

GamingGargoyle · Post by **GamingGargoyle** » Thu May 09, 2019 12:26 pm

The method of switching aim on and off is kinda weird. So i wanted to make the iron sights method like in Far Cry 3 or BorderLands 2. I ended up really close but i got a better idea. Could it be somehow possible, that holding altfire just changes the sprite of the weapon? I got a feeling something like that could be done through Zscript but iam very unexperienced with it. Any help?

MFG38 · Post by **MFG38** » Thu May 09, 2019 12:55 pm

You don't even need ZScript - the same can be done just as efficiently in DECORATE.

GamingGargoyle · Post by **GamingGargoyle** » Thu May 09, 2019 1:01 pm

And do you know how?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu May 09, 2019 4:14 pm

MFG38 wrote:You don't even need ZScript - the same can be done just as efficiently in DECORATE.

As someone who's tried both, I can verify that this statement is false. It can be done as effectively from the user end, and since it's a player interface that doesn't need to be done with dozens of actors every tick there won't usually be a noticeable system slowdown, but the Decorate version of this is going to rely on a lot of weapon ready/refire/hold loops that are a horror to try to maintain.

I made a tutorial for some shortcuts precisely for this kind of thing.

EDIT: Come to think of it it might be possible to insert this actor into a mod, create a Decorate actor that inherits from it, then call A_JumpIf(PressingAltFire(),"ready_holdingaltfire") or something in the ready state.

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