how to make a life drain gun?(regen heath, cause damage)

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Wolfbrf
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how to make a life drain gun?(regen heath, cause damage)

Post by Wolfbrf »

ok, i want to make a vampire like weapon, this gun can drain life(cause damage) and give some heath for the player.

its possible to do using only "pain state"?(A_TakeFromTarget/A_GiveToTarget).
thanks.

if someone know a monster/gun similat a it, please tel me, and i can study the codes.
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Re: how to make a life drain gun?(regen heath, cause damage)

Post by wildweasel »

There are two ways I can think of to do this. The first is having the gun give a [wiki]Classes:PowerDrain[/wiki] when equipped or attacking, since it needs to be a gun. If it were a melee attack, [wiki]A_CustomPunch[/wiki] has a life steal property built right in, of which there seems to be no close equivalent for projectile and hitscan attacks.
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Re: how to make a life drain gun?(regen heath, cause damage)

Post by Wolfbrf »

powerdrain seem to work for me.

i thinked about pain state.

////

pain.lifedrain:
POSS G 3 A_pain
POSS G 1 A_GiveToTarget(heath)
goto ready

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also, the bullet/projectile has "damagetype "lifedrain", or something like it.

powerdrain help a lot, thanks
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Re: how to make a life drain gun?(regen heath, cause damage)

Post by amv2k9 »

Code: Select all

ACTOR VampirePuff:BulletPuff
{
 +PUFFGETSOWNER
 States
 {
 XDeath:
  TNT1 A 0 A_GiveToTarget("HealthBonus")
  PUFF ABCDE 3 BRIGHT
  Stop
 }
}
The +PUFFGETSOWNER flag sets the puff's target to be the player who shot it. We use the XDeath state to give the HealthBonus because then the puff will only give health when it hits a bleeding target (assuming you only want it to give health when it hits a bleeding target).
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Re: how to make a life drain gun?(regen heath, cause damage)

Post by Okgo5555 »

So, give power drain for just the duration of the states? This would apply to the death state of the projectile as well, correct?
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