Replicating the Chicken (or atleast fixing it)

[XutaWoo]

For fun, I thought of going through Heretic as a chicken. Of course, two aspects kept annoying me: The chicken can't pick up keys, health, or artifacts, plus you kept turning back. While this won't kill you in ZDoom (console), it's still very annoying. So I tried inherienting the ChickenPlayer and put that class in KEYCONF. It fixed the "keep turning back" issue but it didn't fix the pick-up issue. Also, the beak no longer went back while attacking, but that doesn't really matter. So, how could I replicate the chicken's behavior wtih a PlayerPawn, or remove whatever prevents it from picking up items? Another question, what does prevent it from picking up items? If I ever pick-up the Lost Soul class again, that'd be useful.

[neoworm]

Not picking up items is probably hard coded since there isnt any tag that could prevent this and custom morph classes can pickup items. So remaking whole chicken player from scratch is the only way.

[Lumpy]

I to wish I had an option for custom classes that turns on/off the ability the pick-up items. Right now I'm using a custom morpher to create a shrink-ray for a personal deathmatch mod. My mini-marine custom class cannot use the weapons he can pick-up. But it is still kinda weird running around as a gerbil sized guy, and picking up weapons 8 to 9 times bigger than myself.

[Graf Zahl]

The pickup issue is one un-set flag. However, that flag is currently not accessible in DECORATE.

[Gez]

I to wish I had an option for custom classes that turns on/off the ability the pick-up items. Right now I'm using a custom morpher to create a shrink-ray for a personal deathmatch mod. My mini-marine custom class cannot use the weapons he can pick-up. But it is still kinda weird running around as a gerbil sized guy, and picking up weapons 8 to 9 times bigger than myself.

Can't be any weirder than finding gerbil-sized weapons and backpacks when you're shrunk in Void...