Is it possible to dynamically change morph duration?

[Heisanevilgenius]

What I'm trying to do is have a morph projectile where the duration of the morph effect is based on an inventory item of the monster who fired it.

To give a similar example, I already created a projectile that uses DamageFunction (CountInv("BossLevel",AAPTR_TARGET)*3);
This makes the projectile do more damage, the more levels the boss has.

I want to do something similar but change the morph duration of a morph projectile. Please let me know if this is possible. Thanks

[Jarewill]

MorphProjectiles morph the hit actor in their DoSpecialDamage override, so you can override it in your projectile to change for how long the morph stays:

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	//Code copied directly from the MorphProjectile definition with some changes to the duration
	override int DoSpecialDamage (Actor target, int damage, Name damagetype)
	{
		int morph_dur = /* Your calculation here */
		if (target.player)
		{
			// Voodoo dolls forward this to the real player
			target.player.mo.MorphPlayer (NULL, PlayerClass, morph_dur, MorphStyle, MorphFlash, UnMorphFlash);
		}
		else
		{
			target.MorphMonster (MonsterClass, morph_dur, MorphStyle, MorphFlash, UnMorphFlash);
		}
		return -1;
	}

[Heisanevilgenius]

Brilliant! Thank you so much!