A_DualPainAttack

justin024 · Post by **justin024** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:59 am

Big surprise that my mod will feature the d64 sprites. In order to accomidate the pain elemental shooting 2 lost souls I turned to A_CustomMissile. It works but there are lots of problems that A_PainAttack handles.

Problems decorate cannot seem to handle:
A. Sometimes Lost Souls spawn inside a wall or floor
B. Lost Souls are not limited to 20, although if you don't kill it before then you are probably screwed
C. Lost Souls spawn slightly behind the elemental

Deathsong12 · Post by **Deathsong12** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:15 am

If I am correct, we can already do this. Basing my speculations on the example decorate code packaged with .96x, I'd say that any actor with A_SkullAttack in it's frames can be spawned by A_PainAttack ("Actor"). I could be wrong.

justin024 · Post by **justin024** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:34 am

I will look into this

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:36 am

Deathsong12 wrote: I'd say that any actor with A_SkullAttack in it's frames can be spawned by A_PainAttack ("Actor"). I could be wrong.

The spawned actor doesn't even need A_SkullAttack. All you have to take care of that it doesn't do anything strange. I have already spawned monsters that do something else in their attack.

justin024 · Post by **justin024** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:09 am

It works except for not being able to control spawning relative to the monster's facing angle which also interferes with spawning 2 souls at once. Looking at some of the stuff 96x can do in decorate (especially acs type pallette transitions) I may make my mod specifically for 96x, unless 2.1.0 supports these things.

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:31 am

Randy has confirmed that the .96x stuff will be 2.1.0

justin024 · Post by **justin024** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:49 am

EDIT: I have now added A_DualPainAttack to my build of v2.0.96x. It is also modifiable like A_PainAttack in 96x (ex: A_DualPainAttack("Cacodemon"))