Simple universal third-person weapon [ZScript]

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

This code will draw a very simple flat sprite in front of your player pawn that uses the spawn sprite of your currently selected weapon. It'll also tilt relative to your pitch. All you need to do is spawn this actor and set the PlayerPawn as its master.

Use it however you like. A video can be seen here: https://twitter.com/i/status/1656619729648230402

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class HeldWeapon : Actor
{
	Default
	{
		+NOBLOCKMAP
		+WALLSPRITE
		+ROLLSPRITE
		+MASTERNOSEE
		+NOTIMEFREEZE
		scale 0.5;
	}

	override void Tick()
	{
		if (!master || !master.player)
		{
			Destroy();
			return;
		}
		
		let weap = master.player.readyweapon;
		if (!weap || master.health <= 0)
		{
			A_SetRenderstyle(alpha, STYLE_None);
		}

		else
		{
			state sspawn = GetDefaultByType(weap.GetClass()).Spawnstate;
			if (!sspawn)
				return;
		
			A_SetRenderstyle(alpha, STYLE_Normal);	
			sprite = sspawn.sprite;
			frame = sspawn.frame;

			Warp(master, 4, -master.radius, master.height * 0.52, angle: -90, flags: WARPF_NOCHECKPOSITION|WARPF_INTERPOLATE);
			A_SetRoll(master.pitch);
		}
	}
}

[cosmos10040]

This is actually pretty cool, there is a hideous destructor mod that does this same thing called bubbles but when paired with a weaponless player sprite it looks awesome. I got this working into a pk3. If anybody wants me to upload I can. Seems to work just fine, but one thing I noticed is some weapon sprite are facing the wrong way, could be due to the original frame, also muzzle sprites would be a nice thing to add.

[ramon.dexter]

Sweet! Now just make a playersprite that would work with this system...

[cosmos10040]

Sweet! Now just make a playersprite that would work with this system...

That would be nice, I know there are sprites out there.