Special Operations: Action Tactical mod [Beta 2 Release!]

[Greenmarine]

That just ended up crashing ZDoom :/

Ok, oddly enough ... The ammo is being taken from BOTH the primary weapon and the grenade themselves. I don't know how the hell I didn't notice that before... Ugh, this is annoying to try and fix. >_<

That's because you have the "Use Ammo" flag set to 1 in the FireCustomMissile frame. After that you tell it to reduce your grenade count by one as well. Set the "Use Ammo" variable to 0 to fix that problem. As for crashing, that's because I was indeed [censored word], and your frame jump should probably skip a goto command like :

TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("grenadepickup", 1, 1)
goto Ready
GRWU AB 3

Or something like that. With the frame jump set to 2, it's just skipping to the B frame of GRWU. Though I can't think of why it would crash the game the other way - unless of course we're forgetting to remove the "tossgrenade" inventory item after canceling the attack - that would create an infinite loop of going from Ready to Throw to Ready, causing an exception.

stuff

With all due respect, I believe the real problem I caused is due to the infinite loop from not removing the inventory item that activates the grenade tossing animation!

[Matt]

I suspect it's crashing because the check for going into the GrenadeThrow state is made in the ready state before any non-zero frames are played, resulting in a zero-length loop if there is no ammo.

My last post in this thread has the workaround, or otherwise it might just be better to have a 1-tic WeaponReady call in the ready state before all these jump checks are made.

EDIT:

With all due respect, I believe the real problem I caused is due to the infinite loop from not removing the inventory item that activates the grenade tossing animation!

That too! Will edit my previous post.

[Greenmarine]

You see I am dumb, but I am not so dumb

[lizardcommando]

Alright, it looks like that code did the trick. I also figured out how to fix the ammo being taken from the primary weapon too!

So it turns I needed to comment out the Weapon.AmmoUse thing and put in the A_TakeInventory("ammo",1) for it. I just replace "ammo" with whatever ammo type the current weapon uses.

Nope, that method basically gives my primary weapons unlimited ammo. So now it's back to where the grenade ammo is completely dependant on the primary weapon's ammo. I need help figuring that problem out.

[Greenmarine]

The grenade is dependent on the primary weapon's ammo, because in the projectile spawn code you set the "UseAmmo" flag to 1. It needs to be set to zero.

GREN G 2 A_FireCustomMissile("GrenadeObj",-1,1,3,2)

The bolded number needs to be set to zero.

After that, you need to tell the animation to JumpIfInventory to check if there's any left before finishing the attack, then you need to decrease the grenade ammo count by one via takeinventory after the attack has concluded. Simple as that.

[lizardcommando]

Awesome! It works now! Thank you!

[Enjay]

I thought I'd posted about this already but I don't see my post so I guess not - I love the laser guided rocket. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it before. It's superb.

[TypeSaucy]

i have to say... the laser-guided rockets is so far my favorite weapon. i don't see this as a big problem, but when i'm shooting a laser-guided rocket, and i do a 180 turn, the rocket hits you from behind.

[Enjay]

Heh, I think that should get filed under "don't do that".

[lizardcommando]

Also, don't straferun forward while using the secondary function for the Laser-Guided Rocket Launcher. You'll blow yourself up.

[Zombieguy]

Wouldn't that happen if you shot a regular rocket too? Because if the rocket is the same speed as the standard Doom rocket, then you shouldn't have any problem running past it.

[lizardcommando]

In this mod? The rocket fired with the primary mode is a little faster than the Doom rocket.

Anyways, I think it's time to release Beta 2 of this mod:

*New item, hand-grenades! Default Key is 'F' to throw grenade!
*Added new item-pickup sounds for the Laser-Point Rocket launcher.
*The cell and cellpack have been changed to proper graphics.
*Tweaked the spread and strength for the Combat Shotgun.

The biggest feature added in this version would be the hand grenades.


Hand Grenades
Just like in Call of Duty 4, you can throw a grenades while using any weapon. These things bounce pretty far so be careful when you toss it, otherwise they might bounce back and kill you!

Random Gameplay video!


Here's the beta: http://files.drdteam.org/index.php/file ... ops-b2.zip

[Matt]

Why a new key and not just using the item that appears in your inventory?

And why are the weapon sounds in stereo?

[lizardcommando]

I plan on having recovery and support items appear in the inventory and grenades be their own separate thing. The sounds were originally in stereo. Is it a bad thing to have it in stereo?

[Matt]

IIRC it does interfere with the engine being able to play a locatable sound ingame.

In any event, I only really noticed this with the shotgun always sounding like it was being fired somewhere to my left.