[0.10.6] Gun Bonsai -- everything-compatible weapon upgrading

[Asurmen]

Hey there! On Heretic, is there a way to keep a weapon's upgrades when using a tome of power? I know that normal and upgraded weapons don't share the same weaponclass, but maybe someone has created a mod, or maybe gunbonsai already supports it? (I haven't found anything like that, but I'm asking just in case)

[stainedofmind]

Hey there! On Heretic, is there a way to keep a weapon's upgrades when using a tome of power? I know that normal and upgraded weapons don't share the same weaponclass, but maybe someone has created a mod, or maybe gunbonsai already supports it? (I haven't found anything like that, but I'm asking just in case)

I'm fairly certain you can use a BONSAIRC lump to do this. Off the top of my head, I'm not certain what the correct lines are, and I don't have time before work to test it, but if you don't have it figured out by the time I get home, I'll see if I can narrow it down.

[Asurmen]

Thanks for the reply! I made some testing and in fact... it seems it IS already keeping upgrades between normal and enhanced versions of the weapon, when you use the "weapon class" option ( Originaly, I was using the "same weapon with inheritance"). Don't know what happened exactly but when I tested it last time it wasn't working this way. Maybe it's because I started a new playthrough, or because I was using a weapon pack at that time. I'll continue testing it this way, hopefully I just made a mistake last time

[Asurmen]

And... again it doesn't work anymore! Every time I remember to check and the last tome of power I used seems to have "broken" the system. My instinct tells me that it could have something to do with weapons like the dragonclaw that change weapon type or mix them when they become enhanced (the dragonclaw gains projectiles in addition to being a hitscan weapon).

[Asurmen]

I asked ChatGPT, as I didn't even know what a BONSAIRC lump was and I created it with these lines :

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merge BlasterPowered Blaster;
merge CrossbowPowered Crossbow;
merge GauntletsPowered Gauntlets;
merge GoldWandPowered GoldWand;
merge MacePowered Mace;
merge PhoenixRodPowered PhoenixRod;
merge SkullRodPowered SkullRod;
merge StaffPowered Staff;

Does it looks like something that could work ? (I'll test it but if it's like the last time, it could work at the begining and stop after some time).

Edit : Finished E1M3, that worked so far.
Edit : Finished E2M1 and still working, so I guess it's a win Thanks for the suggestion! Hopefuly it'll help someone else someday.

[TristanH]

That stack trace is weird as hell! What pistol start mod are you using? My best guess here is that you were wielding an SPAS-15 with Rapid Fire on your way out of the level, the pistol start mod deleted it and replaced it with a Five-Seven, and Rapid Fire ended up trying to execute a psprite state from the former using the latter, or something like that.

Which definitely shouldn't happen, but I think I need to recreate it locally to figure out why it happens first.

Hey ToxicFrog. I hope everything's okay.