Initial pickup state for weapon actor?

[BaronGasMask]

Hey all! Working on a .pk3 that features a reloading weapon (using WildWeasel's reloading weapon tutorial) and thought of a cute idea to handle initial mag-filling and give a little personality to the weapon. I was wondering if there's an actor state that can be added in DECORATE to give the weapon a short animation and reload on first pickup only? Basically something like:

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StateName:
				TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("MyGun", "Ready") //If the player already has MyGun, then just go to Ready state as normal
				MGUN A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("45Round", 1, "ReloadWork") //If there's extra .45 rounds in inventory, auto-load them into MyGun
				MGUN B 2 //Reload cycle 1
            MGUN C 2 //Reload cycle 2
				Goto Ready

While I'm aware that there's a way to have the weapon full on initial pickup (seen here: viewtopic.php?f=39&t=56130) I thought that if I could add a way to define this state as on first pickup only, that could be kinda cool. Thoughts? Apologies, I'm very very new to modding of any kind so idk if this is actually a huge project haha.

[Jarewill]

The only way to do this as far as I know is this:

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Ready:
    TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("FirstLoad",1,"ReadyTrue") //So it happens only on first pickup when the player doesn't have this item
    TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("FirstLoad",1) //Give the item now
    //Reload sequence
    Goto ReadyTrue //Go to the real Ready state
ReadyTrue:
    MGUN A 1 A_WeaponReady
    Loop

Actor FirstLoad : Inventory {Inventory.MaxAmount 1} //The item   

[Matt]

For the other way, if you want it to work for the first time that particular weapon is picked up and not the first time the player picks up that kind of weapon, I recommend looking at this old tutorial.

I might want to suggest not doing this automatically, though, because there's nothing worse than accidentally running over a weapon in the middle of a firefight and not only being unable to shoot due to switching but also a reload sequence on top of that...