pitching problem with spreading projectile originally autoaiming at an enemy

[TIIKKETMASTER]

Hi all. i am having trouble with projectiles not firing how i intend.

My goal is to make a projectile that fires with the aimed pitch (when you autoaim at an enemy) as well as having a vertical spread for that projectile after it is fired.

i tried various flag combinations to no avail, it either:
-shoots randomly based on 0 pitch
-shoots backwards ( )
-shoots the specified pitch as an absolute value

this is in decorate, and i am using either A_CustomMissile, or A_FireCustomMissile, since the others do not work in decorate.



oh and to ask a another question (to reduce spam), is there any way i could make autoaim work as long as the enemy is in front of them? like how a monster can target a player if they're in their range of view at all? Thanks!

[yum13241]

https://zdoom.org/wiki/A_FireCustomMissile

Fires a projectile from a Weapon or a CustomInventory. Optionally you can specify an angle and a spawn offset.

If used in a weapon, useammo specifies whether this attack uses ammo or not. This parameter is irrelevant if used in a custom inventory.

The following flags can optionally be used. Multiple flags can be combined by separating them with the pipe character '|'.

FPF_AIMATANGLE — Alternate autoaim behavior, relevant when playing with autoaim. Autoaiming is based off of the projectile's trajectory instead of the player's aim. If this flag is set, the engine looks at the horizontal line of fire projected for the projectile, independent of the player's aim. If the horizontal line of fire cuts close enough to a valid target (again ignoring vertical aim), that projectile will fire directly towards that target. If this flag is not set, the engine looks at the player's horizontal aim. If the horizontal line of fire cuts close enough to a valid target (ignoring vertical aim), the resulting projectile will fire with the vertical angle adjusted to aim directly at the target.
FPF_TRANSFERTRANSLATION — Transfer Translation. The projectile fired uses the same translation as the actor that fired it. In most cases, this will be the player.
FPF_NOAUTOAIM — Disables autoaim for this attack.

pitch becomes relevant with autoaim off. It adjusts the player's vertical aim by the given angle value, like the angle parameter affects the horizontal aim. A positive value makes it fire the missile higher than the player's aim, a negative value makes it fire lower.

You don't need to specify the pitch.