A Pet German Shepherd?

[Tamashii]

i was rummaging through Tormentor667's Torment N Torture mod, and found german shepard resources. it made me think, whether its possible to have a pet on your dooming adventures. a pet shepard that maybe collected armor and weapons for you, and distracted enemies during combat. (and maybe eat corpses to refill health?) just don't use the rocket launcher on it...

well, i don't have the skills atm to program it myself but the idea i think maybe interesting for anyone who wants to use that in their mods.

[Phucket]

Ya shawt mah dawg!

[Unknown_Assassin]

Wrong section. This should go in the "ZDoom projects ideas (something like that)."

[Cutmanmike]

Possible I say. It would require a friendly monster who uses A_VileChase to detect corpses. The problem is that it would have a hard time following the player everywhere unless it had noclip, and needless to say that would be a bit weird.

[Kinsie]

Who remembers MBF?

[corysykes]

cutman couldnt you make it so it had sertion drop of hights and climbable hights?

[Cutmanmike]

That would still look weird

[corysykes]

true but it will be better than "here boy!" *dog comes merging out of wall* "look i told you to never do that bad dog bad boy!!!" *crouches behind the steilagmite* "ohh im sorry boy.... wait where am i getting with this?

[Dulle]

Oh and when the hound's health is running low,it doesn't bark anymore and begin the crying.
And what about inventory item called "dog food" that can heal the dog.
I aren't so sure that the dog will eat zombie's corpse with happy mood.
Weird yet,Mike?

[Cutmanmike]

A way you could do it is to check if the player hasn't seen the dog in so long (using [wiki]A_CheckSight[/wiki] or whatever) and then remove the dog and spawn it next to the player, but invisible and stationary. Then, using A_CheckSight again, make it appear when the player is out of view of the invisible dog.

... Dammit I hate it when people do this to me and somehow make me come up with solutions. I'll end up making this wad, just you watch!

[Tamashii]

there's an idea where if a dog's too far away from you, he'll "teleport" to near you. would that work with current zdoom scripting?

[Cutmanmike]

That's pretty much what I said in my above post, so yeah it can be done.

[Cardboard Marty]

Who remembers MBF?

Yeah, you guys should look this up. The whole "Marine's Best Friend" port was pretty much built around this concept.

[FuzzballFox]

Not sure if any of you lot (except those that browse the Skulltag forums) would have heard of Mercenaries made by -=:[xXx]:=-?
One of the pickups is a litter of 3 german shepherd pups that you can spawn, they are freindly and attack other enemies...

Just some shameless promoting...nevermind me...<_<;

[Snarboo]

Honestly, this is an idea I'd like to see used more in Doom mods, and not just having a dog sidekick. :D With some trickery, it could be possible to recreate the Mags from Phantasy Star Online. Isn't there code from the Heresiarch that allows a projectile or item to float around an actor?

In any case, having an item that follows the player and attacks enemies is a cool idea.