Deathcam

[P1ayer27]

What would be the simplest way of writing a script to change the player's viewpoint to whatever killed him when he dies? Or is this even possible?

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I've tried running ACS scripts in the death states of players and passing tidtohate as a script argument, and then used ChangeCamera to switch to that camera, but apparently that's not how tidtohate works...

[CommanderZ]

Search for "killcam" in this file (scripts 502 and 503).

[P1ayer27]

Ummm, that didn't really seem to work.

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EDIT: Alright, after picking apart the code for a while, I finally got it. I even commented it in case someone else wants to use it.

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#library "GLOBAL"
#include "zcommon.acs"

int KillerTID;
int KillerHealth;

Script 501 ENTER 
{
Thing_ChangeTID(0,PlayerNumber()+1001);
SetThingSpecial(0,226,503); //On death, run script 503, but make the killer the activator.
}

Script 502 RESPAWN
{
Thing_ChangeTID(0,PlayerNumber()+1001);
SetThingSpecial(0,226,503);
}

Script 503 (void)
{
KillerTID = ActivatorTID(); //Stor killer's TID and health.
KillerHealth = GetActorProperty(ActivatorTID(),APROP_Health);
}

Script 504 DEATH //The ACTUAL DEATH script.
{
Delay(1); //Make sure the variables are stored first.
if(KillerHealth>0) //Make sure the killer's alive.
{
ChangeCamera(KillerTID,0,1); //Switch to killer's view.
SetFont("BIGFONT");
HudMessage(s:"\ccKiller's Health left:\cg ", d:KillerHealth; //Display killer's health.
HUDMSG_FADEOUT,0,0,0.5,0.6,2.0,1.0);
}
KillerTID = 0; //Reset variables just in case.
KillerHealth = 0;
}