Poison via Zscript?

[Heisanevilgenius]

Hi all. I wanted to use a projectile that has a customizable poison duration. So instead of putting "PoisonDamage X, X, X;" as a property, I could have it as a DoSpecialDamage or such, and I could make the damage and duration based on a script that can vary. I'm having a hard time finding info on this in the documentation, but I have seen discussion in other threads about variables such as PoisonDurationReceived and am just wondering how to implement that? I want to make sure I'm using Zdoom poison and not Hexen poison since they seem to be completely different functions?

Thank you.

P.S. When I first started posting in this forum I had no idea how ZScript works and from all the help I've gotten I've been able to figure out a lot of really cool stuff and now it's all clicking! I can't thank you folks enough.

Edit: Nevermind! I figured it out on my own!

Just in case anyone wants to do something similar, this was added to the projectile:

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	override int DoSpecialDamage (Actor victim, int damage, Name damagetype)
	{
		if (victim.player)
		{
			victim.PoisonDamageReceived=(formula);
			victim.PoisonDurationReceived=(formula);
			return damage;
		}
		return 0;
	}

[Blue Shadow]

Typically, you'd want to use PoisonMobj.

[Heisanevilgenius]

Thank you, that's very useful