How does a voodoo doll know which player to follow?

[Matt]

It clearly doesn't have a working player pointer and players[x].mo wouldn't point to it, so where would this info be stored?

[7Soul]

Maybe this has the answer

[Rachael]

It clearly doesn't have a working player pointer and players[x].mo wouldn't point to it, so where would this info be stored?

actor.player is the very essence of how voodoo doll logic works, even in GZDoom. Can you post an example of it not working?

[Graf Zahl]

It clearly doesn't have a working player pointer?

You are clearly wrong here.

It works as follows:

First player instance is spawned, linked to player x and player x linked to this instance.
Second instance is spawned, linked to player x and player x linked to this instance.

Now the first instance still points to the player, but the player points to something else. Voilà, you just got a voodoo doll.

[Matt]

...welp, time to fix a bunch of code before trying to do whatever it was I was trying to do that led to this question!