Impact Pointer Flags

[Major Cooke]

Split the pull request for hit pointer changing.

Figured, it'd be easier to get this submission included if it was it's own pull request instead of bogging one pull request down. I'm more in heavier need of this at the moment than the reflective flags.

[Fishytza]

I'm sorry for seeming impatient but I get the feeling that this bug report of mine has gone unnoticed (by you).

I probably should have reported it here instead. My bad.

[Major Cooke]

No, actually, it's better if you post it in the bug reports section itself. I've just been a little busy.

[Matt]

Sweet!

So basically on the version I could do something like

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actor PyroBall : DoomImpBall replaces DoomImpBall{...
death:
TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("SetOnFire",1,AAPTR_HITTARGET)
goto super::death ...

or is it a bit more involved than that?

[Gez]

No, what you do is:

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actor pyroball : doomimpball blah blah
{ 
+HITTARGET 
...
TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("SetOnFire", 1, AAPTR_TARGET)
goto super::death
...

[Major Cooke]

What Gez said. There's no way Graf's gonna let more pointers be made, I think.

[Matt]

So just to clarify: if I use +HITTARGET for a rocket, while the A_Explode call would end up being credited to the person getting hit ("Stop hitting yourself!") the impact itself would still be credited to the shooter, right?

[Major Cooke]

You misunderstand. I don't blame you though because P_ExplodeMissile is a bit of a misnomer.

When a projectile legitimately DIES (is forced into the death state from collision), and if it has +HITTRACER, it will set the tracer field to the actor which it died upon.

A_Explode has nothing to do with it.

[Gez]

He's not talking about P_ExplodeMissile, but about [wiki]A_Explode[/wiki]. He's also not talking about HITTRACER but about HITTARGET. And he's talking specifically about the [wiki]Rocket[/wiki] which happens to call A_Explode in its Death state, so A_Explode has a lot to do with it in this case.

[Matt]

I can see the cause of the misunderstanding given what a modder versus a coder might be looking at more often!

So to rephrase, if I had

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actor BullyRocket : Rocket replaces Rocket {+hittarget}

would that mean that if I shot at my DM opponent and they survived or dodged the impact but died from the blast it would count as their suicide, while if my opponent died from the impact itself it would be a kill in favour of me? Or would it all be suicide?

[Major Cooke]

Only if it actually hit them. If it's blast damage without actually physically impacting them first before performing any other code pointer functionality (i.e. causing its blast radius damage), it wont count as suicide. You would still get the kill credit for it.