Recoil2?

[DBThanatos]

if already in, somebody please tell me how to

like i saw in EDGE, when you fired a weapon, the camera moves alittle bit vertically, giving the feeling that you just fired a really heavy weapon, Could that be added in Zdoom decorate?? for example, when you fire an extremely heavy BFG (or something like that) and it have a recoil, you just feel like something pushed you a little back, but there is no real feeling of power fired...




DBT

[Nash]

I can think of a way to do it, but it's kind of a hack.

The Fire state would start an ACS script.

The ACS script will store the player's pitch the moment it was fired.

Then, the script will increment the player's pitch smoothly. At the end of that, decrease the player's pitch until it is the same as the pitch that was stored earlier.

[Grubber]

Or just use [wiki]A_Recoil[/wiki], which doesn't move the camera, but pushes you back.

[Matt]

You can do that in ACS? Sweet...

::imagines being finally able to implement Infiltration-style recoil into his rifle mod once he ever bothers mapping and/or when global ACS comes out::

EDIT: DB, have you tried putting A_Recoil in the flash state, one positive before and one negative after the flash? It's not that bad if you're standing still, though if you're shooting on the run the effect is negligible...

[Graf Zahl]

If you just want some view shaking you can try to play around with radius_quake.

[HotWax]

The ACS script will store the player's pitch the moment it was fired.

Then, the script will increment the player's pitch smoothly. At the end of that, decrease the player's pitch until it is the same as the pitch that was stored earlier.

The big drawback to that is there's no way to tell how the player is interacting with the recoil. Normally when firing these weapons, your natural response is to try to compensate for the back-lash effect by pushing your mouse forward while you fire to readjust your view and stay somewhat level. Because your script doesn't take that into account, you don't give the player an opportunity to correct their viewpoint so they always get the full recoil effect.

[DBThanatos]

If you just want some view shaking you can try to play around with radius_quake.

uhhh... how can i do that in a weapon??


also, i think would be nice if this was implemented in Decorate, because, yes, we can make things with scripts, but, for the people like me that still is trying to understand ACS... well, not good pronostic

DBT

[Kirby]

Well, I'm doubting that you and other people who currently don't understand ACS that well will have features added to suit your lack of knowledge

[DBThanatos]

I dont mean to sound agressive but:
if that was the case, then we all should be professional programmers to use the game, if that was the case, the to create monsters or stuff like that we shoudl open the source and edit from there and then each one of us have an unoficcial version of zdoom, i believe that decorate is an easy way to edit things in the game, that was the point of existing, and why not adding something to make it simple to use?? then why exist let's say "A_CustomMissile" if im sure that can be done also with some kind of acs??

I think this feature can be useful if added like A_recoil with a Z value, how much the camera would be moved, also the time to normalize. that is my idea.





DBT

[MasterOFDeath]

If you just want some view shaking you can try to play around with radius_quake.

Nothing like the room shaking violently and all over the place with a pistol.

[Nash]

if that was the case, then we all should be professional programmers to use the game

Life can never be fair.

[Anakin S.]

If you just want some view shaking you can try to play around with radius_quake.

uhhh... how can i do that in a weapon??


also, i think would be nice if this was implemented in Decorate, because, yes, we can make things with scripts, but, for the people like me that still is trying to understand ACS... well, not good pronostic

DBT

Just make a small earthquake that lasts a few milliseconds. You can just do something like this in the action part of a frame in decorate:

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Radius_Quake(9,35,0 /*make sure damrad is 0 or you'll hurt yourself and be disoriented*/,30,0)

Radius_Quake now uses a tid of 0 to originate the earthquake from the activator.

[wildweasel]

Anakin: While your solution might work for charging weapons like BFG's, it is rather dumb looking for most other types of weapons. I tried using your idea on my Mass Driver weapon (turning the duration from 35 to 5). It looked exceedingly stupid.

[MasterOFDeath]

Anakin: While your solution might work for charging weapons like BFG's, it is rather dumb looking for most other types of weapons. I tried using your idea on my Mass Driver weapon (turning the duration from 35 to 5). It looked exceedingly stupid.

WW-BNI right? The weapon where the alternate fire damn near forced you into the floor? I remember that.

Yeah, recoil is something to use sparingly.

[StrikerMan780]

Erm, Radius_Quake isn't in EDGE.

Anyways, I would like this feature, as I need to simulate the kickback effects of doom64's shotgun and chaingun, where it doesn't force you back, but it jerks your camera's pitch back a little, very quickly, but does not affect your aim. (maybe a Action Function Option for it to affect aim, like:)

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States
{
Fire:
SHTG A 0 A_Kick(Amount, Affectaim) So, somthing like A_Kick(5, 1)
SHTG A 7 A_Firebullets(....)
}