[ZSCRIPT] How do I make a monster that gibs itself & explodes when it touches a living Actor?

[yum13241]

+TOUCHY won't really work as that would make the monster die from falling 1 unit, which while hilarious, is not what I want. I want it to gib itself and cause splash damage. (using A_Explode)

How can I tell when this monster touches a living Actor?

(The monster is a suicide bomber)

[Okgo5555]

Basically, make his melee state jump to a Xdeath or custom death state that spawns a rocket explosion something like

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...
 Melee:
	POSS C 1
goto XDeath
...

  XDeath:
    POSS M 5
    POSS N 5 A_XScream
    MISL B 8 Bright A_Explode
    MISL C 6 Bright
    MISL D 4 Bright
    Stop
...    

You can make it fancier with SpawnItemEX and make a new actor that is the actual explosion if you want. This essentially gets you what you are looking for. I would change the monster's melee range to something short like 32.

[yum13241]

My suicide bomber isn't damaging the player. (This is all ZScript)

SShotgunGuy:

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Class SShotgunGuy : BaseStealthMonster { Default { Health 30; Radius 20; Height 56; Mass 100; Speed 8; PainChance 170; SeeSound "shotguy/sight"; AttackSound "shotguy/attack"; PainSound "shotguy/pain"; DeathSound "shotguy/death"; ActiveSound "shotguy/active"; Obituary "$OB_SHOTGUY2"; HitObituary "$OB_SSHOTGUY"; Tag "$FN_SHOTGUN"; DropItem "Shotgun"; RenderStyle "Fuzzy"; MeleeRange 32; } States { Spawn: SPOS AB 10 A_Look(); Loop; See: SPOS AABBCCDD 3 A_Chase(); Loop; Missile: SPOS E 10 A_FaceTarget(); SPOS F 7 Bright A_SposAttackUseAtkSound(); SPOS E 15 A_Jump(64, "Suicide"); SPOS F 7 Bright A_SposAttackUseAtkSound(); Goto See; Melee: Goto Suicide; Stop; Suicide: SPOS F 1 Bright A_SpawnItemEx("SuicideBomb", 5, 0, 30, 0, 0, 0, 0, SXF_TELEFRAG); Goto XDeath; Stop; Pain: SPOS G 3; SPOS G 3 A_Pain(); Goto See; Death: Goto Suicide; Stop; XDeath: SPOS M 5; SPOS N 5 A_XScream(); SPOS O 5 A_NoBlocking(); SPOS PQRST 5; SPOS U -1; Goto Super::Fade; } }

SuicdeBomb:

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Class SuicideBomb : BaseProjectile { Default { +ZDOOMTRANS // for those of you who use the ugly ZDoom transparency, here you go. +DEHEXPLOSION // for the ye olde DeHackEd mods. Projectile; Speed 1; Height 56; Mass 100; Damage 50; ExplosionDamage 50; SeeSound "dsempty"; DeathSound "weapons/rocklx"; } States { Spawn: Goto Death; Stop; Death: MISL B 8 Bright A_Explode(); MISL C 6 Bright; MISL D 4 Bright; Stop; } }

BaseMonster:

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Class BaseMonster : BaseActor { Default { +COUNTKILL; // Counts towards kill percentage Monster; Health 1; Radius 1; Speed 1; +FLOORCLIP BloodColor "Red"; } States { Fade: Goto Super::Fade; Stop; } }

BaseActor:

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// Base for nearly everything in my mod. Class BaseActor : Actor { Default { } States { Fade: #### # 1 A_FadeOut(0.1); //fades out the actor Stop; } }

BaseProjectile:

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// Projectiles inherit from this. Class BaseProjectile : BaseActor { Default { Projectile; Speed 1; Height 1; Mass 100; Damage 5; ExplosionDamage 20; SeeSound "dsempty"; DeathSound "weapons/rocklx"; } States { Fade: Goto Super::Fade; Stop; } }

What's going on? I spawn the explosion 5 units away from the zombie, and telefrag the player if they get in its way. Why am I taking almost no damage?

[Player701]

I think you need to add NoDelay to the state where you make the A_Explode call since it is technically the first state your actor enters, and functions in the first state are not called by default. E.g.

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Death:
    MISL B 8 NoDelay Bright A_Explode;
    ...

Note that you could just put the "Spawn:" label directly above "Death:", it'll work the same, no need for the "Goto Death"+"Stop" part.

[yum13241]

Thanks, I forgot about that Doom-ism.