[minimod][v0.2.2] Gearbox - weapon selection mod

[Captain J]

It looks certainly advanced and efficient to use now. Thanks so much for creating this addon! Almost every mods works nicely with it except some mods with own custom weapon select screen like Lambda. But you're not supposed to be play like that, so... Good addon overall!

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- First of all, the scale meter seems does not affect the Wheel mode.

- The cursor after opening the weapon menu while wheel mode is on gets affected by the current mouse movement. For example: The vertical speed is severely slowed down because you set the vertical speed to 1.3.

- Block mode is quite compact and tidy. But would've been nice if the ammo bars on each weapon were differently colored, or add another icon to indicate which ammo type they are.


- It's about wheel mode again. If you have too much weapons like on Russian Overkill and Netronian Chaos(not advertising btw), the entire wheel gets stuffed by them. Is there any way to shrink them all?


- Plus, if the weapon doesn't have the pickup or icon sprite at all, the icon will be the first person sprite of it. Thanks to such behavior, it kinda clutters the wheel. Resizing option if the sprite size is big might be extra tidy!

- Py's weapon wheel displayed the name of the selected weapon. How about adding it to this addon as well?

And that's about it. Very useful addon!!

[m8f]

This was running on a 1080p panel in borderless full screen mode, with the video Scale Factor reduced to 0.5. The Scale setting in the Gearbox options was at 1.

Welp, I need to fix the display with non-1 scale factors. Captain J's screenshots may show the related problem, the weapons don't fit into the wheel.

First of all, the scale meter seems does not affect the Wheel mode.

Intentional, I may need to make a note for that option. The wheel needs to keep this size.

Block mode is quite compact and tidy. But would've been nice if the ammo bars on each weapon were differently colored, or add another icon to indicate which ammo type they are.

I have to think about different colors for different ammo types. It may be difficult to make it readable on user-specified background color.

It's about wheel mode again. If you have too much weapons like on Russian Overkill and Netronian Chaos(not advertising btw), the entire wheel gets stuffed by them. Is there any way to shrink them all?

You won't believe it, but I'm already working on this issue. No, the weapons won't be shrunk down. There is a certain reason for the reserved space around the wheel, and why it's exactly the radius of the wheel. It's a secret for now, I'm still not sure if I can pull this off.

Plus, if the weapon doesn't have the pickup or icon sprite at all, the icon will be the first person sprite of it. Thanks to such behavior, it kinda clutters the wheel. Resizing option if the sprite size is big might be extra tidy!

There will be possibility for patches for certain mods that would add missing icons.

Py's weapon wheel displayed the name of the selected weapon. How about adding it to this addon as well?

Will do later.

Thank you for the feedback!

[popguy12]

i tried testing this with Project Brutality to see if it would work well for people who want a weapon wheel for weapon selection, and i came across the missing sprite error that seems to have been brought up already, could you maybe point me to where the code for rendering/scaling the sprites or whatever is at? im interested in trying to pick it apart and see how it works to maybe get a patch going until you have your planned compatibility stuff in

[m8f]

I suppose the easiest way to add icons for now is to add a replacement for the weapon and define Inventory.AltHUDIcon property there.

The code that gets the icon is here, but it just uses the existing function from GZDoom.

[popguy12]

alright then, thank you, ill look into this

[mamaluigisbagel]

welp got another crash trying to select a weapon in QCDE. I was at least able to open the menu this time, but closing it by clicking caused this crash. This is with the dev build.

[Voydtt]

I'm really loving this. Only, I have a problem in that I really like both "representations", and don't want to have to choose between them

Would it be possible to have it so number keys bring down the weapon blocks, while still having the menu key bring up the weapon wheel? Could this be done with aliases?

[m8f]

welp got another crash trying to select a weapon in QCDE. I was at least able to open the menu this time, but closing it by clicking caused this crash. This is with the dev build.

I don't get this VM abort with the most recent devbuild. Either something was fixed along the way, or I don't meet the specific conditions. Can you please describe what did you do: what player class, what weapons did you have, how did you open the wheel, and what weapon did you select?

Also, that "Alias -gb_toggle_weapon_menu tried to recurse" message above the VM abort is very odd. It should not be happening. Does it happen often?

Would it be possible to have it so number keys bring down the weapon blocks, while still having the menu key bring up the weapon wheel? Could this be done with aliases?

Yep, add these lines to the end of keyconf lump:

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Alias +gb_Voydtt "gb_view_type 1; event gb_toggle_weapon_menu"
Alias -gb_Voydtt "event gb_toggle_weapon_menu_up; wait 5; gb_view_type 0"
AddMenuKey "Open Wheel for Voydtt" +gb_Voydtt

Then set Gearbox to Blocks view and assign the new key in Customize Controls.

Edit: almost forgot to add that this thing dropped in devbuilds:

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[mamaluigisbagel]

that's the first and only time I've had the "Alias -gb_toggle_weapon_menu tried to recurse" message appear.

I chose random, which gave me Serious Sam, meaning I had the Gauntlet, Starter Machinegun, Starter Shotgun, and Starter Nailgun. I opened the menu using the keybind, and I selected the Gauntlet, though it might do this for anything. If it helps, I was using the blocks layout.

EDIT: From further testing, this does not happen with the weapon wheel, and will not crash with blocks IF you select a weapon without the menu first. (in QCDE, at least for me, you start with nothing until you select the gauntlet or your starter weapon. That moment you have nothing and select a weapon is when it crashes. After you have your weapon out, it works fine.)

[Voydtt]

Yep, add these lines to the end of keyconf lump:

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Alias +gb_Voydtt "gb_view_type 1; event gb_toggle_weapon_menu"
Alias -gb_Voydtt "event gb_toggle_weapon_menu_up; wait 5; gb_view_type 0"
AddMenuKey "Open Wheel for Voydtt" +gb_Voydtt

Then set Gearbox to Blocks view and assign the new key in Customize Controls.

Awesome! Thanks!

[m8f]

in QCDE, at least for me, you start with nothing until you select the gauntlet or your starter weapon.

Aha! Found and fixed (in devbuild). There is an option in GZDoom, "Switch on pickup". You had it off, I had it on. In QCDE, the player starts with no weapon selected, indeed, but if this option is on, the player immediately switches to some weapon. Gearbox didn't expect that no weapon is selected, and misbehaved.

Gearbox will still misbehave if there is no weapons at all. We'll see if such a situation happens in reality.

[mamaluigisbagel]

ah ok, I did in fact have it off. (I'm afraid I'll be in a close-quarter fight, accidentally pick up an explosive weapon, and kill myself with it ) I'll keep reporting what I can. Like I said, I loved Weapon Menu so I want to help try to improve this one!

[Cutmanmike]

Fantastic, I was hoping something like this would appear What are the chances of getting a version of this for INVBAR inventory items? We've been using that horrible Heretic scrolling inventory for far too long!

[m8f]

What are the chances of getting a version of this for INVBAR inventory items? We've been using that horrible Heretic scrolling inventory for far too long!

Planned, will do at some point.

v0.2 is here! Download

New:

• Wheel: multiwheel - allows handling large arsenals with style
• Wheel: option to disable mouse input
• Wheel: mouse sensitivity sliders
• Wheel: position slider
• General: moved dimming out of Wheel and make it optional
• General: reaction to number keys
• General: option to select the weapon when the Toggle Menu key is released

Fixes:

• Wheel: fixed VM abort with closing the wheel twice
• Wheel: don't reset when pressing unrelated keys (allows moving while wheel is open)
• Wheel: don't let the pointer leave screen bounds
• Blocks: don't show second ammo type if it's the same as the first ammo type
• Blocks: fixed VM abort when there is only one weapon
• General: fixed VM aborts with QCDE
• General: fixed scaling issues
• General: fixed preventing cheat code input in some circumstances

[Dark-Assassin]

With the wheel menu enabled, just regular scrolling through also wants to use the mouse for input which is extremely uncomfortable. IMO mouse input should only be used when opening the menu via bind rather than weapon selection override.

Also, a VM abort happens when you try to active the menu with no weapons.

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VM execution aborted: array access out of bounds. Size = 0, current index = 0

Called from gb_BlockyView.display at gearbox-v0.2.pk3:zscript/blocky_view.zs, line 60
Called from gb_EventHandler.RenderOverlay at gearbox-v0.2.pk3:zscript/event_handler.zs, line 184