Issues with custom death animation

[HellBlade64]

Still working on my Hard Doom mod. Next issue in line:

I'm trying to add a custom violent death animation for the player where they are torn in half by an explosion.
The effect I'm trying to achieve is (and so far the actors are set up) is that the disembodied torso is launched backwards from the legs.
What I am having trouble with is getting the torso to fly backwards and land.
So far I have gotten it to separate from the legs correctly, but the torso just kind of flops to the ground.

[Jarewill]

Do you mind showing your current code?

And what exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to:
1) Spawn a torso actor and make it fly backwards without moving the player camera, or
2) Spawn a legs actor and make the player camera fly backwards?

[HellBlade64]

Do you mind showing your current code?

And what exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to:
1) Spawn a torso actor and make it fly backwards without moving the player camera, or
2) Spawn a legs actor and make the player camera fly backwards?

Sure, I'll share the current code I have jotted down for it.

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Actor MarineTorso : PlayerChunk
{
Mass 100
Radius 8
Height 8
Gravity 0.5
Speed 15
+Missile
+DoomBounce
+DropOff
States
{
Spawn:
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
PTOR A 1
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
Goto Spawn
Death:
PTOR BCD 4
PTOR E -1 A_NoBlocking
Stop
}
}

Actor TestMarine : ShotgunStart
{
States
{
  Death:
    PLEG A 2 A_PlayerScream
    PLEG B 5 A_XScream
    PLEG C 2 A_NoBlocking
	PLEG C 0 A_SkullPop("MarineTorso")
    PLEG EFG 2 A_NoBlocking
    PLEG H -1 A_NoBlocking
    Stop
  AltDeath:
    Goto Death
  XDeath:
    Goto Death
}
}

Note that "TestMarine" is a dummy marine actor I made so I could test the animation quickly without random chance getting in the way of whether I'd see it or not.
Currently the torso is dropped by A_SkullPop. Basically I'm trying to achieve a Heretic/Hexen style gibbing effect where your head gets disconnected from your body.
I want the player camera to be attached to the torso.

[Jarewill]

I compared it to Heretic's BloodySkull and added the flags that were missing and it seemed to work.
The flags in question:

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+NOBLOCKMAP
+LOWGRAVITY
+CANNOTPUSH
+SKYEXPLODE
+NOBLOCKMONST
+NOSKIN

However, I found it to be not extreme enough, so I used A_ChangeVelocity.
This doubles the torso speed:

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Spawn:
TNT1 A 0 NoDelay A_ChangeVelocity(velx*2,vely*2,velz*2,CVF_REPLACE) //Doubles current velocity
SpawnLoop:
PTOR A 1 //Why were there several copied lines if they all were the same?
PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
Loop

[HellBlade64]

Almost there!
The only thing is when the skullpop happens, the torso still has more vertical momentum than horizontal.

[Jarewill]

All that would be needed to do is change velx*2,vely*2 into a bigger number in A_ChangeVelocity.
For example velx*4,vely*4 would double the horizontal velocity even further, quadrupling it.

[HellBlade64]

I'm not sure that will work.
I misspoke in my last reply. It's not that it has no momentum ever, just when it is summoned from A_SkullPop.
If I summon the MarineTorso actor directly from the console command it flies as it normally should.
But when it comes from A_SkullPop it seems to only use the BloodySkull's physics.

[HellBlade64]

Also I'm not sure whether there's a solution for this, but the MarineTorso's armor doesn't inherit it's color from the player's custom settings and stays the default green.
Can that be changed?

[Jarewill]

Not sure what can be done about that then.
Neither about the player translations.

But I have made an experiment not using A_SkullPop:

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  XDeath:
	TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("DeadMarine",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,SXF_TRANSFERTRANSLATION) //Spawn the legs with the player translation
	PLAY H 10 A_ChangeVelocity(0,0,8)//Thrust the player up, the rocket's splash will apply horizontal velocity
	PLAY I 10 A_PlayerScream
	PLAY J 10 A_NoBlocking
	PLAY AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))
	PLAY J 1 A_CheckFloor(1) //If at floor, stop spewing blood
	Goto XDeath+4 //Jump to blood spawning
  Death2:
	PLAY KLM 10
	PLAY N -1
	Stop

However, it won't bounce around, rather it will just drop on the floor after landing.
And the player can still resurrect themselves after dying this way.

But the legs are colored at least.