A_RadiusThrust (radius, force, affectshooter, neg)

[Setzer]

While I was sharing my opinions in the A_Implode thread, I got to thinking about a feature that just might be useful. It's about time I actually contribute something useful to these forums, so I might as well...

I have thought of a simple new DECORATE special: A_RadiusThrust (radius, force, affectshooter, neg). Its functionality is identical to A_Explode except it deals absolutely no damage, and retains only the thrust effect you get when blasting an enemy with a rocket or similar object. Sometimes it may be desirable to have something push enemies away without sending them to their grim death.

The params are mostly self-explanatory. Radius is... well, radius.
Force is how far away to push the enemies. For ease of use, this could possily be equivalent to the force generated by the Damage parameter in A_Explode (e.g. setting the Force parameter to 128 would yield the same result as a Damage setting of 128 in A_Explode, only without the damage).
Affectshooter determines whether the thrust is applied to the player/monster firing the projectile, or just the nearby enemies. This may be desired if the player himself is used as the center of the thrust and it isn't desired to send the player sky-high as well.
Finally, the Neg parameter if set to 1 provides negative thrust similar to the suggested A_Implode, sending monsters careening towards the center of the blast. If this were to be added, a 'tractor beam' weapon would be highly possible, for both players and monsters.

In conclusion... well, I don't posess much more information to say. What are all your thoughts on this?

[Graf Zahl]

Why not? Might be useful for a gun that only shoots compressed air. Negative force is not yet handled though.

[Jimmy]

That was quick. Awesome!

[Setzer]

Wow, thanks Graf! I never expected such a quick response, so thanks for the surprise.

And I'll get by without the negative force for now. Hopefully it'll get added when the A_Implode situation is settled.

[Anakin S.]

Wow! Great! This could be useful for Force Push!

[Cutmanmike]

Bump. I take it the neg paramter was canned? It doesn't seem to work.

[Graf Zahl]

No, it doesn't.

[Cutmanmike]

So no way of having a "sucking" effect?

[Siggi]

There are plenty of wads which achieve a believable sucking effect, just look at DRE.

[Cutmanmike]

I'd really prefer not to use hacks btw

[TheDarkArchon]

There are plenty of wads which achieve a believable sucking effect, just look at DRE.

Also look at the x-rated directory at /idgames as well

[Ryan Cordell]

They don't work compared to the real thing!

[Anakin S.]

You could inherit from the Loremaster's projectile like the Harpoon gun in WRW.