[Zscript] Bullet Casing ignores player pitch and movement

[OddYokai]

Hi everyone, as you can see in the video, the bullets ejected ignore the player's pitch and movement

VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/O2VF3TYj4tc?si=2YRpKHJeRYGt21-3


The code is:

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		MCHF B 2 BRIGHT A_FireProjectile("BulletCasing", Random(-45,-25), 0, -6,FPF_NOAUTOAIM  ,180);

How can I make it better? Bullet casing lags behind the player's movement. If the player faces up, the bullet cases do not take this into account. If the player moves , bullet casing, will fall behind

SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH!

[JUSSOMONE]

Good afternoon, recently I've just launched my marathon mod and if I not mistaken, it has a similar but a more functional code regarding what you wish for, but let me help you:

1º The bullets "lag" is due to the -6 making the casing spawn at the left side of the weapon under the sprite
2º You seem to have mismatched the Spawnheight with flags, according to the wiki here is the function:

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action Actor, Actor A_FireProjectile(class<Actor> missiletype, double angle = 0, bool useammo = true, double spawnofs_xy = 0, double spawnheight = 0, EFireCustomMissileFlags flags = 0, double pitch = 0)

As you can see the Spawnheight and flags have swapped places, so in effect, nothing will happen.

Now about making it better:

1º Instead of spawning the casing directly from the function, you could create a dummy spawner to have more control of it with the same A_FireProjectile fuction, but you will relegate the angle, spawnheight and pitch to the spawner.

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TNT1 A 0 A_FireProjectile("MyCasingSpawner", 0, 0, 8, 0)

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actor MyCasingSpawner --> THE DUMMY SPAWNER
{
    Radius 1
    Height 1
    Speed 25 --> AS THE SPEED INCREASES, SO DOES THE FRONTAL SPAWN DISTANCE WITH THE PLAYER
    PROJECTILE
    +CLIENTSIDEONLY
    States
    {
      Spawn:
        TNT1 A 1
        TNT1 A 0 A_Die
        Goto Death

      Death:
        TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnProjectile("Casing",1,0,random(-80,-110),2,random(-30,-40))
        Stop
    }
}

2º By using the A_SpawnProjectile you will have a better control of it, since it will automatically track the player movement and pitch(not sure, but seem to have worked for me), then the only thing left to do is to finally "spawn" the true casing with the sprites and custom functions such as bounce type, factor, speed, and so on.

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actor Casing
{ 
    Scale 0.10
    Radius 3
    Height 3
    Speed 7 --> CONTROLS HOW FARTHER THE CASING IS LAUNCHED FROM THE DUMMY SPAWNER
    Mass 5
    bouncetype "doom"
    BounceFactor 0.4
    seesound " "
    Bouncesound "pistol/casing"
    +DROPOFF 
    +MISSILE 
    +NOTELEPORT 
    +MOVEWITHSECTOR
    -NOGRAVITY
    +FORCEXYBILLBOARD   
    States
    {
      Spawn:
        PBLT ABCDEF 1
        Loop

      Death:
        PBLT E 500
        PBLT EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 1 A_FadeOut(0.05)
        Stop
    }
}

Even still, there is some things that I really don't understand well, but you will learn eventually with experimentation and by reading the wiki pages, hope this helps.

[OddYokai]

As you can see the Spawnheight and flags have swapped places, so in effect, nothing will happen.

I am terribly careless, how did I not notice this all this time?

Anyway.
This works perfectly, thanks!

[JUSSOMONE]

As you can see the Spawnheight and flags have swapped places, so in effect, nothing will happen.

I am terribly careless, how did I not notice this all this time?

Anyway.
This works perfectly, thanks!

Good Afternoon, glad it worked. Don't blame yourself for the mistake, it happens all the time, especially when the code gets a "little" extensive, it happened to me a lot of times so, yeah it sucks...