Custom Pain elemental atack

CacoDemonz · Post by **CacoDemonz** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:45 pm

There is a way to make pain elemental shoots a different kind of monster?.
I tried this:

PAIN F 5 bright A_CustomMissile("smallcaco", 35, 0, 0)

but when he shoots the small caco (my monster) it just spawn in front of the pain elemental and 1/2 second later, the small caco dies:

I know i can replace the lost soul whit any monster, but since ZDooM 2.1.3 crash alot of times, all my stuff its made for the ver 2.1.1

Offtopic:
O also, can anyone giveme a link where i can find info about making my custom HuD and, its possible put the doomguy´s face in my custom hud?

Krillancello · Post by **Krillancello** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:04 pm

I know that you can do a bit of a 'hack-job' for a static HUD. There was a discussion about this my first time here (I've left and returned a couple times).

Phobus · Post by **Phobus** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:05 pm

IIRC you can use A_PainAttack and just change the thing spawned, though it gets fired out like a lost soul, I think.

Post by **Enjay** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:13 pm

I think the Wiki makes it pretty clear

http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?title=A_PainAttack

CacoDemonz · Post by **CacoDemonz** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:20 pm

Thank you very much!
Also thanks for the info about the hud, ill check it later

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:27 am

Is there any reason A_PainAttack wasn't made generic like A_CustomMissile?
Because it would be handy if you could set angles, height and pitch for the monsters it shoots.

Out of curiosity I made a mancubus use A_DualPainAttack, but the Lost Souls appear too far on either side of it. Being able to change the angles to something other than +45/-45 would have been useful.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:19 am

Psycho Siggi wrote:Is there any reason A_PainAttack wasn't made generic like A_CustomMissile?

One word: Dehacked. The code has to remain compatible with being used without parameters.

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:28 am

So something like A_CustomPainAttack would be possible?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:33 am

I am a little reluctant to randomly add new code pointers. IMO that should be the job of Doomscript (or whatever it is being called.)

The only problem is that it probably won't come any time soon.

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:41 am

I knew there was a reason a more expandable version had not been created when it was obvious someone had gone to the effort of making A_PainAttack a little more customizable.