Making a Rock Weapon

[XutaWoo]

How do you make a weapon the doesn't auto aim, and thrown at an arc? It's a grenade (even though I said rock) throwing attack.

[ant1991331]

Try this for a template:

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Actor Fumbler : Weapon 20012
{
  obituary "%o fumbled over %k's grenade."
  radius 20
  height 16
  inventory.pickupmessage "You got the Fumbler Grenade Launcher!"
  weapon.selectionorder 9
  weapon.kickback 100
  weapon.ammotype "FumblerAmmo"
  weapon.ammouse 1
  weapon.ammogive 8
  AttackSound "grenade/fire"
  Scale 0.25
  states
  {
  Ready:
    FUMB A 1 A_WeaponReady
    loop
  Deselect:
    FUMB A 1 A_Lower
    loop
  Select:
    FUMB A 1 A_Raise
    loop
  Fire:
    FUMB E 3
    FUMB F 0 BRIGHT A_PlayWeaponSound("grenade/fire")
    FUMB F 3 BRIGHT A_FireCustomMissile("FumblerGrenade",2,1,8,3)
    FUMB GH 3
    FUMB A 0 A_CheckReload
    FUMB ABCDEA 3
    FUMB A 2 A_ReFire
    goto Ready
  Spawn:
    FUMP A -1
    stop
  }
}

[XutaWoo]

I said throwing grenades, though.

[Matt]

You can have the grenade spawn with ThrustThingZ to start moving at a vertical angle.

For thrown grenades, you'd basically do the same with graphics for the arm throwing the grenade, and either have all instances of the ammo include the "weapon" or create a new playerclass starting out with the "weapon".

If you want to get fancy, I suspect you could use some combination of A_Refire, A_GiveInventory and A_JumpIfInventory to throw different grenades depending on how long you hold down the fire key, each grenade differing in initial force but otherwise exploding similarly.

[ant1991331]

I said throwing grenades, though.

Grenadelauncher, throwing grenades. Not much difference.

[XutaWoo]

@Vaecius: Buh? I mean using my grenade base, adding Sersious Sam 2-type grenades, which don't have animations being thrown, just appear, moving in an arc. Of course, there's no auto-aiming in that game, so they're just thrown in an arc. That's what I mean.


@ant Number-Alot: I said in an arc also. Also, I'll use that for rocket-shooting weapons, (Like Double-Cannon Rocket Launcher, Triple-Cannon Launcher) because of fact they are like grenade launchers.

[Enjay]

Making a Rock Weapon

An obvious response...


Sorry.

[XutaWoo]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
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Anyway, do you have any idea how to do this, Enjay?

[David Ferstat]

Sorry.

No you ain't.

Smart-arse.

[Matt]

I always have autoaim turned off so what you're describing is exactly what happens when I play with your grenade base, so it took me a moment to realize what you meant here...

Yeah, I have no idea how to force it off. Maybe you could just tell people to turn it off when they play your mod...?

[XutaWoo]

What about the other weapons? I want all others to autoaim (if on)...hm...Feature Suggesting time?

[Enjay]

No you ain't.

Smart-arse.

Damn, you got me.

Anyway, do you have any idea how to do this, Enjay?

No, sorry I don't. How is the aim paramter of A_FireCustomMissile supposed to work? The Wiki doesn't seem to explain it. Might that be where the answer lies?

http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?tit ... tomMissile

[Matt]

From what I understand of this explanation and my own observations, aimmode 0 means that the angle only takes efffect after the projectile is already in front of you.

[Graf Zahl]

Completely wrong.

The difference is not the launching point but the trajectory. One mode aims directly at the target the other ones aims at a trajectory parallel from the center of the shooter to the target on the z-axis.

[Matt]

EDIT: Right, autoaim.

So, in other words:

Mode 0: A line is drawn from the player to the autoaim target. The projectile's angle is adjusted so that its Z angle matches this new line. Used if all you want is to adjust for a lack of vertical aiming.

Mode 1: The projectile's line is drawn. It is adjusted, if close enough, so that it heads directly towards the target. The projectile then fires at this new angle. Used if you want to adjust for a general inability to aim (e.g., a multishot weapon that needs to affect multiple enemies at once).