Making Healing Weapon Item that sets the player health to 50

[Z.Franz]

Hi all, again.
I'm still working on that survival horror mod and I'm still here asking for your help on something. Damn
So, I made 2 healing items in form of weapons because that's what I was going for (bandages and herbs).
Everything works, as long as I make both items give health that gets added to the player's health pool on the "fire" state.
What I'm wondering and asking any of you kind souls is if there's a way to make the item set the player health to a fixed amount (instead of adding) without "breaking" effects happening due to "A_JumpIfHealthLower" and without making it a different item to use with the "use item" key (basically, no Hexen-type healing).
To clarify on that last point, I already set the max health of the "PlayerPawn" to 80, which is the maximum amount of health I want the player to be able to heal with the best of the 2 healing items (bandages). At 75% health or lower, until 20%, the player suffers from bleeding damage. If I set the amount of "maxhealth" to 75, modify the best healing item (bandages) to give 75 health plus 5 healthbonuses, and then modify the worst healing item (herbs) to heal 75, the bleeding won't start until the player takes damage.
In the ideal situation, the lesser healing item would set the player health to 50%, so it still suffers from the open wound, while the best one sets the player health to 80% (this last thing I was able to achieve with the aforementioned changing of "Player.MaxHealth" to 80)
Sort of like Left 4 Dead.

As always, thank you all guys. Cheers!

[Blue Shadow]

Have you tried [wiki]A_SetHealth[/wiki]?

[Z.Franz]

Yep, I tried it. On 2 out of 3 engine versions I tested it on, it crashed the game on startup saying that it's an invalid parameter or something like that.
On the only engine where it worked (GZDoom 3.0), when called, it didn't do anything.

I realized I didn't say what engine I'm developing for:
Main version is for Zandronum 1.3 - because that's the version where I've made most of the mods for my enjoyment .
I'm also making a custom version on Zandronum 3.0 and GZDoom 3.0, mainly because they are the closest thing to D-Touch, in terms of usuable DECORATE definitions(like A_GetHurt on player states for the bleeding effect).

[Blue Shadow]

Main version is for Zandronum 1.3 - because that's the version where I've made most of the mods for my enjoyment .
I'm also making a custom version on Zandronum 3.0 and GZDoom 3.0, mainly because they are the closest thing to D-Touch, in terms of usuable DECORATE definitions(like A_GetHurt on player states for the bleeding effect).

You may have to take the [wiki]ACS[/wiki] route, then, with [wiki]SetActorProperty[/wiki].

On the only engine where it worked (GZDoom 3.0), when called, it didn't do anything.

How did you use it?

[Z.Franz]

Well, damn. I was hoping I would never have to use ACS again...

Regarding A_SetHealth, If I remember correctly (I changed the code days ago), I first tried putting it in the "Fire" state of the weapon and then on the "Pickup" state of the "inventory item"(item aptly called "RestoringLittleHealth" that inherits from "Health") that actually is given to the player when the "weapon" is fired. I may have had to put it on player states, but I didn't think it was worth the time, since it wasn't working on any version of Zandronum.

[Matt]

HealThing(max(0,50-health)) should work in Decorate...

[Z.Franz]

HealThing(max(0,50-health)) should work in Decorate...

I gave it a shot, but both versions of Zandronum tell me <<Call to unknown function 'max'>> and won't load the wad.

EDIT: seems to work now that I've put it like this: "PISG D 2 HealThing(50, 50)"

[Mikk-]

Unfortunately Zandronum is a bit behind on the times, and doesn't support a number of features that GzDOOM has.

[Z.Franz]

HealThing(max(0,50-health)) should work in Decorate...

EDIT: seems to work now that I've put it like this: "PISG D 2 HealThing(50, 50)"

Ok, to close the topic, this seems to have worked on all 3 versions and doesn't corrupt savegames, so yeah!
Thank you all guys, you all were, as always, a big help!