How to make enemy spawn enemies with an attack?
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JtoTheB
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How to make enemy spawn enemies with an attack?
I'm working on a boss fight for my mod, and I want the boss to spawn enemies on all four of his sides. I'm not entirely sure on how to do this, but if someone could help that'd be greatly appreciated.
Re: How to make enemy spawn enemies with an attack?
The pain elemental zscript seems helpful for this
https://zdoom.org/wiki/Classes:PainElemental
https://zdoom.org/wiki/A_PainAttack
the A_DualPainAttack shows how you can spawn them at specific angles.
https://zdoom.org/wiki/Classes:PainElemental
https://zdoom.org/wiki/A_PainAttack
the A_DualPainAttack shows how you can spawn them at specific angles.
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JtoTheB
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Re: How to make enemy spawn enemies with an attack?
Would it be possible to give the spawned enemies tags?
Re: How to make enemy spawn enemies with an attack?
I'm not an expert with Zscript but it is possible to track spawn actors, or you could make them spawn 4 distinct enemies that inherit from a parent actor. What exactly do you want to do with it?
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Re: How to make enemy spawn enemies with an attack?
Hi,
I think https://zdoom.org/wiki/A_SpawnItemEx is what you are looking for.
the "Item" it spawns can (afaik) be any actor. So it can spawn an enemy also.
The tid argument would also allow you to manage tags.
I think https://zdoom.org/wiki/A_SpawnItemEx is what you are looking for.
the "Item" it spawns can (afaik) be any actor. So it can spawn an enemy also.
The tid argument would also allow you to manage tags.