Inverse damage falloff?

[DiR]

I am trying to make a weapon that deals less damage at close range versus longer ranges instead of the other way around, but I can't quite figure out how to implement it.

I'm only able to find a method for making a weapon do less damage as the distance gets further away but not the other way around. My current idea is for a weapon that has an inverted damage falloff where for the first 256 or so map units it deals low damage but beyond that distance it deals medium-to-high damage.

[Virathas]

If ZScript is an option, i do have a potential solution for this. I believe the weapon you'd like to make is a hitscan weapon, since for projectiles it is far easier to do:

Just add this following piece of code into the weapon code:

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	override void ModifyDamage (int damage, Name damageType, out int newdamage, bool passive, Actor inflictor, Actor source, int flags) 
	{
		if (passive)
		return;
		int Length = Owner.Distance3D(source);
		if (Length > 256.0)
		{
			newdamage = damage *2;
		}
	}

This piece of code simply doubles the damage if the distance between shooter and the target is more than 256 units, you'll need to adjust it to your own use case of course.

[DiR]

I was hoping for something that works in DECORATE and I forgot to mention it in my post since I am working with Zandronum. Thanks for the code though! I guess I can repurpose the logic if I ever come up with a solution.

At the moment I'm considering changing the pistol's hitscan attack to a FastProjectile instead since you mentioned that it's far easier with projectiles.

[Gez]

Zandronum, eh?

Well, first thing first: you will need to use [wiki=Puff]+PUFFGETSOWNER[/wiki]. That means your hitscan attack will know who shot it. You'll also need PUFFONACTORS and HITTRACER.

From there, you can run a script with [wiki]ACS_ExecuteAlways[/wiki], or [wiki]CallACS[/wiki] if Zandy supports named scripts. You can also use [wiki]GetDistance[/wiki] as one of the parameters, that'll give you the distance between the puff and its target -- meaning between the victim and its shooter.

In that ACS script, since you have the distance, you can compute damage however you want it to be. Multiply damage by distance, or even by distance squared; scale by some factor; clamp with a min and a max; whatever.

The last step is to actually inflict damage. To do that, first you'll change the script's activator to be the victim. Remember that since we used HITTRACER, the victim is in the tracer pointer. So we use [wiki]SetActivator[/wiki] with AAPTR_TRACER. And now that the activator is the victim, it can damage itself with [wiki]DamageThing[/wiki].