[Deprecated] Quake-style strafe tilting

[Matt]

This is useful for cases where a function needs to keep some state between invocations, and you don't want to use global variables. Beware, however, this feature should be used very sparingly - it makes your code not thread-safe and harder to understand.

Not sure why you wouldn't want to use a global variable for that though. Something memory-related?

[Zadango]

Daaamn! I've been awaiting this since long! Good work here, Nash!

[MaxED]

search for "static" on ZDoom wiki, it won't find anything relevant

You are doing it wrong...

[Gollgagh]

Can anyone help with increasing the amount that the screen will tilt, I want to make it more intense, someone posted about this previously and someone mentioned a limiter, so I've been going through the code and upping values but it doesn't seem to be working, not sure which part of the code I should change, hopefully someone can give me a hint. Thought I would of figured this out by now but it's got me pretty beat :/

I know this is an ancient post, and you probably have it figured out by now, but the real limiter in the code is 'strafemod'. The "limits" near the bottom of the code should conceivably keep the tilt from completely upside flipping out, but lines 91

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	strafemod = GetPlayerInput(-1, INPUT_SIDEMOVE) / 50;

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	if (strafemod < 0 && strafe >= strafemod)

and 110

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	if (strafemod > 0 && strafe <= strafemod)

in conjunction are what will limit how far your tilt goes. Personally, I have mine divided by 40 instead of 50.

[Shadelight]

search for "static" on ZDoom wiki, it won't find anything relevant

You are doing it wrong...

Was this post really necessary?

[Onar4241]

Was this post really necessary?

I'm not speaking for everyone, but yes it was, because many people have an annoying tendency to just drop 2 words: "Not working" instead of doing a search themselves and find why it isn't working.

[wildweasel]

I find a little politeness goes a long way, and a good start with that is not patronizing the people that you're trying to help. I find LMGTFY links are not especially conducive to that.

[Nash]

Hey I didn't get enough free time to read the entire thread (I'll be in Germany for a month to record my band's album) but one thing that I really want to implement is cl_rollangle and make it function exactly like Quake's so that the user can modify it them selves in the console... I'll get around to it eventually!

[Ozymandias81]

Hey I didn't get enough free time to read the entire thread (I'll be in Germany for a month to record my band's album) but one thing that I really want to implement is cl_rollangle and make it function exactly like Quake's so that the user can modify it them selves in the console... I'll get around to it eventually!

Can't wait.

[hobblinharry]

what is the mouse tilt mod people keep mentioning?

[Average]

what is the mouse tilt mod people keep mentioning?

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... se#p814093

[Gollgagh]

I noticed that tilt angle wasn't being maintained mid-air (like when you strafe off of a cliff), so I added one more ground-check for the reset view section in my personal version:

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// reset view
// when no movement keys are pressed or if player starts to move slow
if(CheckPlayerOnGround()) {
	if (!KeyDown(BT_MOVELEFT) && !KeyDown(BT_MOVERIGHT) && GetPlayerInput(-1, INPUT_SIDEMOVE) == 0 || GetPlayerMoveSpeed(0) < 1.1) {
		if (strafe < 0)
			strafe += strafespeed;

		if (strafe > 0)
			strafe -= strafespeed;
	}
}

I know Quake also does reset the view if you change your strafe direction mid-air, but it also completely stops current horizontal movement if you do that; since Doom does not have this behavior (changing direction mid-air is pretty hard), I didn't bother trying to put that in.

[Pookaball]

Hey guys, I've read the entire thread and tried to load the mod by dragging it over GZDoom.exe and it doesn't seem to work! Apparently, there is ACS scripting involved, which I unfortunately know nothing about! Could anyone please explain what I should do to get this mod running?

[Devianteist]

Hey guys, I've read the entire thread and tried to load the mod by dragging it over GZDoom.exe and it doesn't seem to work! Apparently, there is ACS scripting involved, which I unfortunately know nothing about! Could anyone please explain what I should do to get this mod running?

Grab a 2.x version of GZDoom from here; http://devbuilds.drdteam.org/gzdoom/

[Pookaball]

Thanks, I can't believe the solution was so simple!
EDIT: Oh my god, I have been waiting for such a mod ever since I found out you can do something with motion bob in GZDoom! Up until now I was limited to "stillbob" and "movebob", but now moving in Doom is near to how one could expect to move in real life I guess! Thanks to everyone in this thread!
*autoloads mod until the end of his life