Autoaim in player menu keeps turning on.

[Xanirus]

I don't know if this is related to a particular mod or not (in my case, Doom Rising) but for some reason my autoaim randomly keeps turning on with no coherent pattern. I have autoaim set to "never" in the player menu, and smart aiming in the gameplay menu to "off." Even the .ini autoaim flags are set to "0." It doesn't seem apparent with bullet/shell weapons or weapons that have instantaneous projectiles, but once in a while if I ever use a grenade type of weapon or anything that shoots actor projectiles like a rocket launcher (haven't seen it with plasma gun yet) I'll notice it sticks to something. I'll look in the player menu and it's back to "ALWAYS." I'll turn it off, save the game, several times, and all is well. If I die, or the game loads a save or the next level, it seems to turn right back to ALWAYS about 80% of the time.

Update-
Seems to of switched from OFF to ALWAYS the minute I switched to said a grenade. Turned it off, tried saving, reloading after the fact, stayed off. Shut GZDoom entirely and restarted the same save, still off. Don't see a pattern here....I'd use those autoaim flags per weapon slot commands that I saw somewhere on the wiki, but just because it's staying off, and it will probably turn back on at some point for whatever reason again....

[wildweasel]

This kind of sounds like a dumb question, but are you sure you're actually using GZDoom, or is it Skulltag instead? Doesn't Skulltag have the ability to set console commands through scripts? (It would still help, though, if you could post exactly which zdoom version you're running...)

I have no idea what else the problem could be, but I'm sure the Skulltag thing isn't the only possibility.

[Xanirus]

It's actually GZDoomSVN, v.1178. Don't know if you support that here, my bad if you don't. Just checked the site out now, it's already outdated, dang. Didn't realize it updates that fast. But the mod I'm using isn't that new.

Just saw it happen again, this time with rocket launcher. Was set to OFF before, but even within the same level/map, between a combination of reloading and savings it kicked back to ALWAYS again.

And you're the creator of Diaz right? I think I've seen the same thing with Diaz grenades (the current beta of version 3), but it's not as common....I think. The last time I played DIaz was before I noticed this bug, I thought it was just me not changing it myself.

I have however been dipping into the .wads though with SLADE, mostly with Doom Rising, a few guns with Diaz, but all I've been changing was gun sound effects, damage, reload speeds, ROF, etc, nothing to do with aiming or the core mod. I didn't even touch the grenades or rocket launchers.

What I was looking at was apparently just flags that are written into the script of the weapon itself, not console commands. I'll try to see if any mods or vanilla Doom does this.

Update:
Blargh. Vanilla Doom is fine. Diaz doesn't seem to do this anymore, ever since I changed it back to OFF. But Doom Rising....!$!%!##!

[Blue Shadow]

Do you have a link for the mod?

[Xanirus]

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=26302

Seem to of found a more specific cause. It seems to turn on as soon as you aim/fire on a specific type of monster. Once you turn it off after that point, it seems to stay off until you encounter a new monster that...."flags" the autoaim on. I can only guess that all this resets if you start a new game as well, making you have to turn it all off again.

I found this flag, +WEAPON.NOAUTOAIM, on the ZDoom wiki. "A weapon with that flag will not adjust the aim of an attack, no matter the player's autoaim settings. This is intended to be used only for projectiles affected by gravity, such as grenades, where the player will usually want to aim higher than in a straight line, though it does also affect hitscan and railgun attacks. "

http://zdoom.org/wiki/Actor_flags#WEAPON.NOAUTOAIM

I'm thinking of just putting this in. Does the location of this command matter? Like the very top of the script?

Here's the code for the rocket launcher.

---

ACTOR Doom3RocketLauncher : RocketLauncher Replaces RocketLauncher
{
Inventory.PickupMessage "Rocket Launcher"
Inventory.PickupSound "misc/weapon_pkup"
weapon.selectionorder 250
Weapon.AmmoType1 "XRockets"
Weapon.AmmoType2 "Rockets"
Weapon.AmmoGive1 0
Weapon.AmmoGive2 5
Weapon.AmmoUse1 1
Weapon.AmmoUse2 0
Weapon.Kickback 160
+AMMO_OPTIONAL
States
{
Spawn:
LAUN A -1
Loop
Ready:
D3RS ABCD 1
D3RS E 1 A_PlaySound("weapons/rocketlauncher/raise")
D3RS FGHIJ 1
D3RL A 1 A_WeaponReady
Goto Ready+10
Deselect:
D3RS EDCBA 1 A_Lower
Goto Deselect+4
Select:
D3RS A 1
D3RS AA 0 A_Raise
Loop
Fire:
D3RL A 0 A_JumpIfNoAmmo("AltFire")
D3RL A 0 A_PlaySound("weapons/rocketlauncher/fire")
D3RL A 2 A_GunFlash
D3RL B 2
D3RL C 2
D3RL D 2
D3RL E 2
D3RL F 14
D3RL EDCB 2
D3RL B 1 A_Refire
Goto Ready+10
AltFire:
D3RR A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XRockets",5,4)
D3RR A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Rockets",1,"ReloadStart")
D3RR A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XRockets",1,2)
D3RR A 0
Goto NoAmmo
D3RR A 0
Goto Ready+10
ReloadStart:
D3RR A 0 A_PlaySound("weapons/rocketlauncher/reload")
D3RR BCDEFGHI 2
D3RR J 16
D3RR K 2
D3RR L 8
D3RR KJ 2
D3RR IHGFEDCB 1
Goto ReloadCheck
ReloadCheck:
D3RR A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XRockets",5,2)
D3RR A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Rockets",1,"ReloadSystem")
D3RR A 0
Goto Ready+10
ReloadSystem:
D3RR A 0 A_TakeInventory("Rockets",1)
D3RR A 0 A_GiveInventory("XRockets",1)
Goto ReloadCheck
NoAmmo:
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Doom3PlasmaRifle",1,"SelectPlasma")
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Doom3Chaingun",1,"SelectChaingun")
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Doom3Machinegun",1,"SelectMachinegun")
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Doom3Shotgun",1,"SelectShotgun")
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Doom3BFG9000",1,"SelectBFG")
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Doom3Grenades",1,"SelectGrenades")
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Doom3Pistol",1,"SelectPistol")
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Doom3Chainsaw",1,"SelectChainsaw")
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3Fists")
Goto Deselect
SelectPlasma:
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XCells",1,3)
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Cells",1,2)
SISG A 0
Goto NoAmmo+1
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3PlasmaRifle")
Goto Deselect
SelectChaingun:
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XAmmoBelt",1,3)
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("AmmoBelt",1,2)
SISG A 0
Goto NoAmmo+2
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3Chaingun")
Goto Deselect
SelectMachinegun:
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XClip",1,3)
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("D3Clip",1,2)
SISG A 0
Goto NoAmmo+3
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3MachineGun")
Goto Deselect
SelectShotgun:
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XShells",1,3)
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Shells",1,2)
SISG A 0
Goto NoAmmo+4
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3Shotgun")
Goto Deselect
SelectBFG:
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XBFGCell",1,3)
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("BFGCell",1,2)
SISG A 0
Goto NoAmmo+5
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3BFG9000")
Goto Deselect
SelectGrenades:
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("GrenadeAmmo",1,2)
SISG A 0
Goto NoAmmo+6
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3Grenades")
Goto Deselect
SelectPistol:
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("XBullets",1,3)
SISG A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Bullets",1,2)
SISG A 0
Goto NoAmmo+7
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3Pistol")
Goto Deselect
SelectChainsaw:
SISG A 0 A_SelectWeapon("Doom3Chainsaw")
Goto Deselect
Flash:
D3RF A 2 BRIGHT
D3RF B 2 BRIGHT A_FireCustomMissile("Doom3Rocket", 0, 1, 1, 0)
D3RF C 2 BRIGHT Radius_Quake(5,4,0,1,0)
D3RF D 2 BRIGHT
D3RF E 2 BRIGHT
Stop
}
}

ACTOR Doom3Rocket
{
Radius 10
Height 8
Speed 20
Scale 0.8
Damage 20
Projectile
+RANDOMIZE
DeathSound "weapons/rocketlauncher/explode"
Obituary "$OB_MPROCKET"
States
{
Spawn:
MISL A 0
MISL A 0 A_PlaySoundEx("weapons/rocketlauncher/rocketloop","weapon",1)
MISL A 2 BRIGHT A_CustomMissile("RocketSmoke",4,0,0,0)
Loop
Death:
TNT1 A 0
TNT1 A 0 A_StopSoundEx("weapon")
TNT1 A 0 A_CustomMissile("RExplosion",0,0,180,0)
TNT1 A 2 A_Explode
TNT1 B 2 Radius_Quake(3,5,0,16,0)
Stop
}
}

ACTOR RExplosion
{
Radius 2
Height 2
Speed 0.2
Scale 0.9
RenderStyle ADD
Alpha 0.75
+NOBLOCKMAP
+DROPOFF
+MISSILE
+ACTIVATEIMPACT
+NOGRAVITY
States
{
Spawn:
BOOM A 3 BRIGHT
BOOM B 3 BRIGHT
BOOM C 3 BRIGHT
TNT1 AAAAAAAA 2 A_CustomMissile("Smoke",Random(10,30),Random(-20,20),Random(0,360),0)
Stop
}
}

ACTOR RocketSmoke
{
Radius 1
Height 1
Speed 0.2
Scale 0.2
PROJECTILE
RENDERSTYLE Translucent
Alpha 0.4
States
{
Spawn:
SMOK ABCDEFGHIJKLM 1
Stop
}
}

ACTOR RocketXSmoke
{
Radius 2
Height 2
Speed 1
RenderStyle Translucent
Alpha 0.4
+NOBLOCKMAP
+DROPOFF
+MISSILE
+ACTIVATEIMPACT
+NOGRAVITY
States
{
Spawn:
SMK2 ABCD 3
SMK2 EFGHIJKLM 2
Stop
}
}

ACTOR XRockets : Ammo
{
Inventory.Amount 5
Inventory.MaxAmount 5
Ammo.BackpackAmount 0
Ammo.BackpackMaxAmount 5
Inventory.icon "ROCKA0"
}

ACTOR Rockets : Ammo
{
Inventory.Amount 5
Inventory.MaxAmount 50
Ammo.BackpackAmount 10
Ammo.BackpackMaxAmount 100
Inventory.PickupMessage "Rockets"
Inventory.PickupSound "misc/rocket_pkup"
Inventory.Icon "ROCKA0"
Scale 0.8
States
{
Spawn:
ROCK A -1
Stop
}
}

ACTOR LargeRockets : Rockets
{

Inventory.Amount 10
States
{
Spawn:
BROK A -1
Stop
}
}

And here's the code for the grenades.

---

ACTOR Doom3Grenades : Weapon
{
Inventory.Icon "HGREA0"
Inventory.PickupSound "misc/weapon_pkup"
Weapon.SelectionOrder 200
Weapon.AmmoType "GrenadeAmmo"
Weapon.AmmoUse 1
Weapon.AmmoGive 0
Weapon.Kickback 100
States
{
Spawn:
HGRE A -1
Loop
Ready:
D3HS A 1 A_PlaySound("weapons/grenades/raise")
D3HS BCDEFGH 1
D3HG A 0 A_CheckReload
D3HG A 1 A_WeaponReady
Goto Ready+9
Deselect:
D3HS E 0 A_StopSoundEx("weapon")
D3HS EDCBA 1 A_Lower
Goto Deselect+5
Select:
D3HS A 1
D3HS AA 0 A_Raise
Loop
Fire:
D3HG B 1 A_PlaySoundEx("weapons/grenades/fire","weapon")
D3HG CDEFG 1
TNT1 A 16
TNT1 A 1 A_Refire
Goto Throw0
Hold:
TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("GrenadeHolder",50,"Explode")
TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("GrenadeHolder",40,12)
TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("GrenadeHolder",30,9)
TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("GrenadeHolder",20,6)
TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("GrenadeHolder",10,3)
TNT1 A 2 A_GiveInventory("GrenadeHolder",1)
TNT1 A 1 A_Refire
Goto Throw0
TNT1 A 2 A_GiveInventory("GrenadeHolder",1)
TNT1 A 1 A_Refire
Goto Throw1
TNT1 A 2 A_GiveInventory("GrenadeHolder",1)
TNT1 A 1 A_Refire
Goto Throw2
TNT1 A 2 A_GiveInventory("GrenadeHolder",1)
TNT1 A 1 A_Refire
Goto Throw3
TNT1 A 2 A_GiveInventory("GrenadeHolder",1)
TNT1 A 1 A_Refire
Goto Throw4
Throw0:
THRW A 0 A_TakeInventory("GrenadeHolder")
THRW ABC 1
THRW D 1 A_FireCustomMissile("Grenade0",0,1,0,16)
THRW EFG 1
TNT1 A 10
D3HS ABCDEFGH 1
Goto Ready+8
Throw1:
THRW A 0 A_TakeInventory("GrenadeHolder")
THRW ABC 1
THRW D 1 A_FireCustomMissile("Grenade1",0,1,0,16)
THRW EFG 1
TNT1 A 10
D3HS ABCDEFGH 1
Goto Ready+8
Throw2:
THRW A 0 A_TakeInventory("GrenadeHolder")
THRW ABC 1
THRW D 1 A_FireCustomMissile("Grenade2",0,1,0,22)
THRW EFG 1
TNT1 A 10
D3HS ABCDEFGH 1
Goto Ready+8
Throw3:
THRW A 0 A_TakeInventory("GrenadeHolder")
THRW ABC 1
THRW D 1 A_FireCustomMissile("Grenade3",0,1,0,28)
THRW EFG 1
TNT1 A 10
D3HS ABCDEFGH 1
Goto Ready+8
Throw4:
THRW A 0 A_TakeInventory("GrenadeHolder")
THRW ABC 1
THRW D 1 A_FireCustomMissile("Grenade4",0,1,0,34)
THRW EFG 1
TNT1 A 10
D3HS ABCDEFGH 1
Goto Ready+8
Explode:
TNT1 A 0
TNT1 A 0 A_TakeInventory("GrenadeHolder")
TNT1 A 0 A_FireCustomMissile("ExplosionSpawn",0,1,0,0)
TNT1 A 0 Thing_Damage(0,1000)
TNT1 A 10
D3HS ABCDEFGH 1
Goto Ready+8
}
}

ACTOR GrenadeHolder : Inventory
{
Inventory.MaxAmount 1
Inventory.MaxAmount 50
}

ACTOR Grenade0
{
Radius 8
Height 8
Speed 20
Damage 15
XScale 0.5
YScale 0.4
PROJECTILE
+NOBLOCKMAP
+DROPOFF
+MISSILE
+ACTIVATEIMPACT
+ACTIVATEPCROSS
+DOOMBOUNCE
-NOGRAVITY
BounceFactor 0.6
Obituary "%o caught %k's grenade."
SeeSound "weapons/grenades/bounce"
DeathSound "weapons/grenades/explode"
States
{
Spawn:
D3HW A 2 A_CustomMissile("GrenadeSmoke",0,1,0,0)
D3HW B 2 A_CustomMissile("GrenadeSmoke",0,1,0,0)
D3HW C 2 A_CustomMissile("GrenadeSmoke",0,1,0,0)
D3HW D 2 A_CustomMissile("GrenadeSmoke",0,1,0,0)
Loop
Death:
TNT1 A 0
TNT1 A 0 A_CustomMissile("Explosion",0,0,0,0)
TNT1 A 2 A_Explode
TNT1 B 2 Radius_Quake(4,5,0,16,0)
Stop
}
}

ACTOR Grenade1 : Grenade0
{
Speed 26
}

ACTOR Grenade2 : Grenade0
{
Speed 32
}

ACTOR Grenade3 : Grenade0
{
Speed 38
}

ACTOR Grenade4 : Grenade0
{
Speed 44
}

ACTOR GrenadeSmoke
{
Radius 1
Height 1
Speed 0.2
Scale 0.15
PROJECTILE
RENDERSTYLE Translucent
Alpha 0.4
States
{
Spawn:
SMK2 ABCDEFGHIJKLM 1
Stop
}
}

ACTOR Explosion
{
Radius 2
Height 2
Speed 0.2
Scale 0.8
RenderStyle ADD
Alpha 0.75
+NOBLOCKMAP
+DROPOFF
+MISSILE
+ACTIVATEIMPACT
+NOGRAVITY
States
{
Spawn:
BOOM A 3 BRIGHT
BOOM B 3 BRIGHT
BOOM C 3 BRIGHT
TNT1 AAAAAAAA 2 A_CustomMissile("Smoke",Random(10,30),Random(-20,20),Random(0,360),0)
Stop
}
}

ACTOR ExplosionSpawn
{
Speed 20
PROJECTILE
+NOCLIP
States
{
Spawn:
TNT1 AA 1 A_CustomMissile("Explosion2",0,0,random(-2,2),2,random(-2,2))
Stop
}
}

ACTOR Explosion2 : Explosion
{
SeeSound "weapons/grenades/explode"
States
{
Spawn:
BOOM A 3 BRIGHT
BOOM B 3 BRIGHT
BOOM C 3 BRIGHT
TNT1 AAAAAAAA 2 A_CustomMissile("Smoke",Random(10,30),Random(-20,20),Random(0,360),0)
Stop
}
}

ACTOR Smoke
{
Radius 2
Height 2
Speed 1
Scale 0.8
RenderStyle Translucent
Alpha 0.4
+NOBLOCKMAP
+DROPOFF
+MISSILE
+ACTIVATEIMPACT
+NOGRAVITY
States
{
Spawn:
SMK2 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ 2
Stop
}
}

ACTOR GrenadeAmmo : Ammo
{
Inventory.Icon "HGREA0"
Inventory.Amount 5
Inventory.MaxAmount 50
Ammo.BackpackAmount 10
Ammo.BackpackMaxAmount 50
Inventory.PickupSound "misc/grenade_pkup"
Inventory.PickupMessage "Grenades"
Scale 0.5
States
{
Spawn:
HGRE A -1
Stop
}
}

Update: Putting the flag in didn't matter. I know I'm typing it correctly, because it's giving me an uknown flag error if it's not. (Even though for some reason the AMMO_OPTIONAL flag in those scripts is written different in the Wiki. I figured putting the autoaim flag there was the proper place to put it, but I see no difference. I can't tell if I'm putting it in the wrong place or it's just not working, I'm no advanced coder.) However, I'm almost positive it's the particular level WAD I'm playing, (Doom 2 Reloaded) not the gameplay WAD itself. I just tried Vanilla Doom with Doom Rising, purposely missing enemies that were causing problems with rockets and grenades....and they all missed like it should of. I"m going to try and put back D2RELOADED.WAD back in, but this time put it in the top of the load order (with ZDL) and instead have the Doom Rising wads on the bottom.

[Xanirus]

If anyone is actually still trying to figure this out, I think the solution was none of what I mentioned. I completly forgot about the third autoaim option, found in gameplay settings. The player settings autoaim option still changes back to "always" like a stubborn ox, but the gameplay autoaim option seems to override any mysterious changes elsewhere, so it doesn't matter.

[randi]

It seems to turn on as soon as you aim/fire on a specific type of monster.

I realize this is about a year late, but which type of monster?

[randi]

Closed due to lack of response (not that I'm really surprised, since it's been a year).