Decorate Question #426 - Melee Attack Related

Aquashark · Post by **Aquashark** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:47 am

Hello!

I've recently discovered the joys of DECORATE, and I've had a lot of fun making armies of monsters to do my bidding. However, whenever I'm making a monster with both a Missile and a Melee attack, I'm finding that the monster never uses the melee attack anymore. It always opts to use the projectile--even when I continually stand right next to it!

Does this have anything to do with the fact that the monster I'm making is using A_SkullAttack in his Missile state? I've tried doing lots of things, such as attempting to use an A_JumpIfCloser function to make it jump to the melee attack if the player was closer than 16 units, but that didn't seem to work at all. Any help would be much appreciated; I'm glad to learn more about the mysteries and common-sense applications within the DECORATE lump!

Here is the code, just in case...

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chaoscentral · Post by **chaoscentral** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:24 pm

Try this

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ACTOR Fiend 3269 
{              
   Health 300 
   PainChance 77 
   Speed 15 
   Radius 56 
   Height 64 
   Mass 400 
   Damage 8 
   MeleeDamage 8 
   MONSTER 
   +DROPOFF 
   +FLOORCLIP 
   SeeSound "fiend/sight" 
   AttackSound "fiend/melee" 
   PainSound "fiend/pain" 
   DeathSound "fiend/death" 
   ActiveSound "fiend/active" 
   Obituary "%o was hacked apart by a Fiend." 
   States 
   { 
   Spawn: 
      DEMI A 0 A_Jump(179, 3) 
      DEMI A 10 A_Look 
      DEMI A 10 A_PlaySound("fiend/active") 
      DEMI AAAAAAAAAA 10 A_Look 
      Loop 
   See: 
      DEMW A 0 A_SetShootable 
      DEMW AABBCCDD 4 A_Chase 
      Loop 
   Missile: 
      DEMJ A 10 A_FaceTarget 
      DEMJ A 0 A_JumpIfCloser(32, 255, 7)
      DEMJ A 0 A_UnsetShootable 
      DEMJ A 0 A_PlaySound("fiend/jump") 
      DEMJ B 6 A_SkullAttack 
      DEMJ C 20 
      DEMJ D 4 A_PlaySound("fiend/thump") 
      DEMJ D 0 A_SetShootable 
      Goto See  
      DEMS B 8 A_MeleeAttack 
      DEMS C 8 A_FaceTarget 
      DEMS D 8 A_MeleeAttack 
      Goto See 
   Pain: 
      DEMP A 2 
      DEMP A 2 A_Pain 
      Goto See 
   Death: 
      DEMD A 4 
      DEMD B 4 A_Scream 
      DEMD C 4 
      DEMD D 4 A_Fall 
      DEMD EFG 4 
      DEMD H -1 
      Stop 
   XDeath: 
      DEMH A 4 A_Fall 
      DEMH A 0 A_PlaySound("quake/gib") 
      DEMH A 4 A_CustomMissile("ChestGib", 32, 0, 0) 
      DEMH A 0 A_CustomMissile("ArmGib", 32, 0, 90) 
      DEMH A 0 A_CustomMissile("ArmGib", 32, 0, 270) 
      DEMH A 0 A_CustomMissile("ChunkGib", 32, 0, 45) 
      DEMH A 0 A_CustomMissile("ChunkGib", 32, 0, 180) 
      DEMH A 0 A_CustomMissile("ChunkGib", 32, 0, 225) 
      DEMH A 4 A_CustomMissile("ChunkGib", 32, 0, 315) 
      DEMH A -1 
      Stop 
   Raise: 
      DEMD HGFEDCBA 4 
      Goto See 
   } 
}

Deathsong12 · Post by **Deathsong12** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:40 pm

Cool! Can you post this as a wad, or at least a screenshot?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:43 pm

The problem here is that the radius of the monster is too large. Unless you are using the latest .96x version only small monsters can use melee attacks. In the latest unofficial build there's the 'meleerange' property to overcome this problem.

Aquashark · Post by **Aquashark** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:25 pm

Thank you, Graf Zahl and chaoscentral! I had never known that the radius had any bearing on the melee attack. I need to go back and read the wiki until my eyes fall out...

And Deathsong12, I'm unable to post it to a WAD, sadly. I obtained all the graphics and information from the QDOOM wad... in its text file, it explicitly states that one is not allowed to use portions of the wad in other projects.

You're not missing anything, though. It's just a Fiend from Quake... nothing incredibly exciting. (And incredibly easy to make yourself with QDOOM.wad... barring this little radius problem!) Heh, if you really want a screenshot I could take one and post it..

Deathsong12 · Post by **Deathsong12** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:09 pm

It's not too important. Just as long as you are learing decorate. While I'm posting, is there any way to set an X-offset for melee attacks? Or for cutstom punching parameters in weapons?

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:12 pm

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:14 pm

Why would you need an X offset for punching? The only thing missing really is how far the melee attack can reach.

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:16 pm

And that's not missing. (You seem to be missing a lot, OTOH

)

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:17 pm

Oh for...