Making arrows spawn above a monster's head

[Shadelight]

How would I make an arrow spawn above a monster's head, using DECORATE?

[Ryan Cordell]

A_Fire trickery? (see LWM's flaregun)

[ravage]

Try using A_SpawnItem to spawn a decorative actor that lasts for only one frame and have the monster spawn this after every frame tic; That'll give the illusion of the arrow 'following' it.

[Tormentor667]

I am using A_SpawnItem in Stronghold as well but you should consider that many spawns withing one second and many actors having this might slow down the game and heavily lag network games.

[Dark-Assassin]

A_Fire trickery? (see LWM's flaregun)

which mod?
and link?

[Ryan Cordell]

There was simply only a mod made by LittleWhiteMouse that sort of replicated Blood's flaregun.. If anyone still has Demon Wars (okay, I have it, but it'd be a waste of space to upload it here), then a ready example is there, I believe..

[Shadelight]

I am using A_SpawnItem in Stronghold as well but you should consider that many spawns withing one second and many actors having this might slow down the game and heavily lag network games.

I don't plan on having too many actors at once and it's not going to be multiplayer.

[Xaser]

Psychic's powered-up ice has it. Basically, the effect is to give a projectile the +SEEKERMISSILE flag and have its death states call A_Fire -- this causes the dead projectile to "stick" to the target. I'm sure the process is a bit different for a non-projectile entity (i.e. an arrow), though I'm sure looking at the way ArchvileFire works will shed some light on the procedure.

Still, this is a big hack that's probably not officially supported, at any rate.