Flag to prevent player sprite squish when crouching?

[Zan]

Hey, would something that prevents any visual change on the player's sprite when crouching be possible?
A flag that would no longer make the sprite distort to half its' height or something like a +PLAYERPAWN.NOCROUCHMORPH

I get the point that a squished sprite is still better representation of crouch than nothing, but I think people should be able to opt out, and simply have crouch not modify anything visual. This also ties up to possible inconsistency issues when the player sprite has more skins like for different weapons, but the engine only allows for one set of crouch sprites, so the crouch animation will only be available for one of the skins, while the rest will do the standard morph.

[Rachael]

What happens when you define "Player.CrouchSprite" to simply be the same sprite set as the one you are already using?

I am not sure if it'll work but it's something worth a try.

[wiki]Classes:PlayerPawn[/wiki]

[Matt]

I just tried this in a playerpawn's Tick() and it works:

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        if(player.getgender())crouchsprite=getspriteindex("TROOA1");
        else crouchsprite=getspriteindex("PLYCA1");
 

It didn't work when I tried it almost a year ago but I'm glad it does now!

EDIT: Wait, I hadn't checked if this works:

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        if(player.getgender()){
            sprite=getspriteindex("SARGA1");
            crouchsprite=getspriteindex("TROOA1");
        }else{
            sprite=getspriteindex("PLAYA1");
            crouchsprite=getspriteindex("PLYCA1");
        } 

[Zan]

What happens when you define "Player.CrouchSprite" to simply be the same sprite set as the one you are already using?

I am not sure if it'll work but it's something worth a try.

[wiki]Classes:PlayerPawn[/wiki]

It only works for the default states. But if I crouch in my other spawn/see states (defined for other weapons), I get the shrink effect.

[Matt]

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        if(player.getgender()){
            sprite=getspriteindex("SARGA1");
            crouchsprite=getspriteindex("TROOA1");
        }else{
            sprite=getspriteindex("PLAYA1");
            crouchsprite=getspriteindex("PLYCA1");
        }

Expected/hoped:
SARG while not crouching and non-male
TROO while crouching and non-male
PLAY/PLYC while male

Actual:
SARG while not crouching and non-male
SARG-squished while crouching and non-male
PLAY/PLYC while male

It's the same as it was when I posted that other thread.


We still have no way at all of properly replacing all the player sprites dynamically including the crouch sprites (at least without some really gross morph hack and I don't even know if that would work), so this is still an open issue.

[Graf Zahl]

That's simply because the player wasn't made for more than one sprite name. It was made even less for such sprite name hacks.