[solved] Change weaponbob on the fly

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Is there any method of changing a weapon's bobbing properties as it's used instead of predefining them?

[Toberone]

I think you can only change the speed or intensity of it, not the style or distance, that might be decorate only. Theres a option for it in GZDoom IIRC, but you can also type in "viewbob 'x' " in the console, I use Viewbob 0.01 personally.

Edit: I apologize for poor reading comprehension. This is a bad habit.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

I think you can only change the speed or intensity of it, not the style or distance, that might be decorate only. Theres a option for it in GZDoom IIRC, but you can also type in "viewbob 'x' " in the console, I use Viewbob 0.01 personally.

I'm talking about weapon bobbing (see [wiki=Actor_properties#Weapons]Weapon.BobRangeX[/wiki], etc.), it has nothing to do with view bobbing.

[Blue Shadow]

You can change those directly with ZScript.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

You can change those directly with ZScript.

And where can I get a bit more information on how to edit properties on the fly?

[Blue Shadow]

Well, you don't edit properties. You edit the variables the properties represent (there's a difference). It's usually done in functions, [wiki=Anonymous_functions]anonymous[/wiki] or otherwise, with the assignment operator:

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class MyCoolWeapon : Weapon
{
    States
    {
    Fire:
        BLAH A 1
        {
            invoker.BobRangeX = 1.5;
        }
        Goto Ready;
    }
}

The invoker tells the engine that it's the weapon itself that you want to do the change to, not the holder of the weapon, i.e. the player.

The bob variables are defined here, along with the other weapon variables.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

I see. Thanks!

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

I don't see how to properly change bobstyle though. If I provide it as a property in Default definition, I can just write weapon.bobstyle "InverseSmooth", for example. But if I try to use invoker.BobStyle = "InverseSmooth"; in a state definition, I get "Script error: Numeric type expected". It looks like the value should be an integer but I can't find through testing which value I need, to be honest.

UPD:

Looks like it's either 1 or 2, I can't quite tell the difference between them.

[Blue Shadow]

Looking through the source, I got this:

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0 = "Normal"
1 = "Inverse"
2 = "Alpha"
3 = "InverseAlpha"
4 = "Smooth"
5 = "InverseSmooth"