Q1STYLE INSTANT WEAPONS SWITCHING

[morbidtwatt]

yes ive tried so hard to get this to work in bex nope it always crashes..i setup duration speeds of the lower and raise frames of all guns to 0 and it wigs outs after 2 mins of ingame fun any ideas if it can be done with zdoom at all i canre not if you guys scipt it anyways it doesnt have to be in bex as long as its done u know

[wildweasel]

I've seen somewhat instant weapon switching in Cory Whittle's Q3-DM for ZDoom...go get it at http://www.doomworld.com/immoralconduct and see how he did it. I know it takes time to lower the weapon, but he got instant raising in there...

[randi]

Try giving the player the PROP_INSTANTWEAPONSWITCH property with ACS.

[morbidtwatt]

how would i do that im fairly new to acs still learning it tehe

btw randy awesome port man youve like made my dreams come true for doom me sucks your big toe now

[bimshwel]

Setting the deselect (or the other one, I do not recall) duration to 0 will lock up the game if a player using the weapon is killed, I assume because with no next weapon to go to, the game just loops the frame endlessly. And 0 does not agree with that sort of thing. It never has.

No longer a relevant comment, but that's when it happens if it's going to.

[Ultraviolet]

Try using a duration of 1 instead. You'll hardly notice it.

[randi]

Use a script like this:

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script 55 open
{
    SetPlayerProperty (1, YES, PROP_INSTANTWEAPONSWITCH);
}

Change the 55 to some other number if you already have a script 55.

[morbidtwatt]

what about compatibility is it possible to have my instant weapons switch patch work for any wad without me making another acs script for a foreign wad?

some doomers told me i had to make this acs script for all the maps i have including ones that werent made by me if i want to use this instant weapon switcing is this true?

[bimshwel]

Try using a duration of 1 instead. You'll hardly notice it.

That's what they are by default. I won't notice it at all.