player view height variable

[DOOMERO-21]

add this new code for edit the player view height any time with acs like a new setplayerproperty

[FireHusky]

Alex in Wonderland!
That would be a nice feature as well!

[Ed the Bat]

This would be incredibly useful for clearing out a lot of overhead in my project, so I fully support this suggestion.
Also, in the same vein, would a property for AttackZOffset also be possible? These kinda go hand-in-hand for some things I'm hoping to do.

[DOOMERO-21]

any chance to apply this?

i was waiting since july of 2012.

[Ed the Bat]

I also would very much like to see this. Incidentally, making this an option for Set/GetPlayerProperty could also deprecate the GetActorViewHeight function, which seems to be flawed as it is, since it apparently can't accept 0 as Activator, like so many other functions.

[Ral22]

Count me as a plus one on this feature. I could make some clever and neat things using this!

[Ryan Cordell]

Think I'll give it a shot and prototype it in ToB today, see how it turns out.

[Ral22]

Think I'll give it a shot and prototype it in ToB today, see how it turns out.

Man, Ryan. Has anyone ever told you you're the best?

[Ryan Cordell]

SetPlayerProperty doesn't really influence the player's properties in any way. SetActorProperty is sooner what one would be looking for. There is, also, ACSF_GetActorViewHeight in the source, so one should wonder if "APROP_ViewHeight" should be a SetActorProperty only thing or a separate ACS function?

[Ral22]

I could gladly live with either one. If we maybe wanted to wrangle with more additions, like a setting on whether the height change is instant or goes up/down at a rate, it should be a separate function.

[Xaser]

Does anything but a player have a "viewheight" sort of variable, though? It probably only exists in the player_t struct, so it'd be undefined for any nonplayer actors. Set/GetActorProperty wouldn't really be the place for it, as such.

[Nash]

According to http://zdoom.org/wiki/Actor_properties every actor has a CameraHeight property. I don't know if the player uses the same variable or if the player's viewheight is something different?

[Ed the Bat]

SetPlayerProperty doesn't really influence the player's properties in any way. SetActorProperty is sooner what one would be looking for.

Right, right, that's the one I was thinking of. My mistake.

Does anything but a player have a "viewheight" sort of variable, though?

Looks like it.

[Xaser]

Ah, okay. I guess the tricky part though would be that the function can't readily assume a single property, since for players there's a special case. I guess this is why there's a separate function for this in the first place. Dunno off the top of my head how hard/hacky it would be to wrap this up into SetActorProperty.

[Ed the Bat]

The effect that crouching has on a player's viewheight may also need to be taken into account. So, checking this property on a crouched player may need to understand that it's 1/2 of the 'real' current viewheight.