Force to change weapon after death?

[DonaldDuck]

The reason is I want to give a playerclass a weapon, that simulates burning hands like in Strife, after he gets killed by a missile with the damagetype "fire".
Is it somehow possible?

[Ed the Bat]

Have you tried using an ACS script and the SetWeapon() command, called in the player's Death state?

[DonaldDuck]

Nope, it wont.

Guess I have to do it by HudMessage and SetFont.

[Ed the Bat]

Ah, that's right... by default, when a player dies, he lowers his weapon and can't raise another one. I forgot to take that into consideration. Sorry.

This may have some unforeseen roadblocks as well, but have you also thought about inheriting from StrifePlayer and recycling the burning-hands methods that way?

[Ravick]

Well, how does it works for Strife anyway? o.õ

Isn't there a way to mod that feature?

[Enjay]

The Strife player has some native functions relating to this, so you'd have to inherit from it if you want to use the exact same behaviour: [wiki]Classes:StrifePlayer[/wiki]

[Ravick]

Hum... with inheritance maybe just using same sprite names could do the trick.

The problem would be the few frames number.

edit: No, it would not!

http://zdoom.org/wiki/A_ItBurnsItBurns

You just need to define a custom FireHands "state"!

[ChronoSeth]

... and inherit from StrifePlayer, since A_ItBurnsItBurns is restricted to it.

[Ravick]

Yeah, but Enjay said it already before me