Disable same-species infighting?

[CaptainToenail]

How do I do this? I have a decorate monster with a hitscan attack, but they will attack each other if they hit each other.

[Jimmy]

+DONTHURTSPECIES stops them fighting over splash damage, not sure if it covers hitscans, though.

[Graf Zahl]

No, it doesn't.

[SilentRage]

I have a question along the same lines as this.

How can you make it so that monsters won't infight due to hitscan friendly fire?

I know that in Strife, the Acolytes never infight.

[Gez]

Two easy way:

1. All your monsters can have the NOTARGET flag -- that way, they'll never infight, regardless of any other setting.

2. You can use damagefactor and damage types so that your monsters are immune to their own hitscan attacks. AFADoomer used this for his Wolfenstein TC mod (look in Project), and it works well.

I'm not sure how Strife did it exactly. I see nothing in the source code that looks like a special property about this precisely...

[Unknown_Assassin]

KDiZD did something that prevent hitscan monsters from killing each other, but I don't know what.

[Matt]

KDiZD did something that prevent hitscan monsters from killing each other, but I don't know what.

DEHACKED lump:

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Misc 0
Monsters Ignore Each Other = 1

[Unknown_Assassin]

Pretty nifty and simple. I like it.

[TheDarkArchon]

A note: Hitscan monsters can still hurt and kill each other and that option disables infighting entirely.

[HotWax]

DEHACKED lump:

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Misc 0
Monsters Ignore Each Other = 1

A better method:

MAPINFO lump:

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defaultmap
noinfighting

This will only work with GZDoom and SVN.

I suspect the DEHACKED lump is rapidly approaching deprecation status, if it's not there already....

[Matt]

For some reason I can't get defaultmap to work (it's fine if I replace the line with a specific map). Am I missing something?

[HotWax]

Ah, my bad. It appears that defaultmap only applies its properties to future maps defined in the same MAPINFO. Including it by itself in a MAPINFO lump doesn't do anything because there are no map definitions to apply to.

I wonder if this could be changed to facilitate making changes like this to every map in an existing WAD without having to redefine every map in the lump...

[CaptainToenail]

So there is no simple flag to disable same species hitscan fighting, well, I think there should be...

[Unknown_Assassin]

So there is no simple flag to disable same species hitscan fighting, well, I think there should be...

Unless you are not talking about monsters getting hurt, but instead, just fighting, then use the +NOTARGET.

[CaptainToenail]

But that will mean other monsters of different species will not be able to target them...