Seeker missile range

[LilWhiteMouse]

I've seen the question asked a number of times, but couldn't find any answers. Is there a max range which player fired seeker missiles will home? If there is one, can I add something to change it? By the time I'm close enough for the missiles to track, I'm too close.

[Phobus]

There doesn't appear to be a max range, but for a homing missile to work, you have to have your crosshair on something first, then fire, or else it's very unlikely the projectile will track.

Of course, this only from what I know, and I've been corrected before.

[LilWhiteMouse]

It is over a target (kinda hard to miss this thing). I have a custom hitscan "laser designator" that turns a different color when it's on a shootable target. When I shoot from a long range, say 6000 units, the missiles just fly off on their spawned directions. When I get closer, like within 1000, they track the target just fine.

[Graf Zahl]

There's a maximum aiming distance (2048 map units.) For anything further away the homing target won't be set.

[LilWhiteMouse]

There's a maximum aiming distance (2048 map units.) For anything further away the homing target won't be set.

Is this a technical limitation, or just an arbitrary value that could be changed?

[Graf Zahl]

It was chosen to be the maximum distance at which autoaim works. As a result changing this would have an impact on the game. This limitation is in some global code that applies to all weapons

[LilWhiteMouse]

Curses, foiled again. Oh well, I'll just figure something else out.

[Amuscaria]

EDGE would modify this, though the makes the weapon JERK at the autoaimed target if your weapon uses a homing projectile. Maybe someone can add that to Zdoom later with some reworked coding? (THough my guess is a quick "NO")