Poison Damage?

[Lord_of_D:]

would somebody be so kind to explain me how exactly works the poisonus damage? i was trying to make a projectile with "PoisonDamage", but zandronum always gives me error when i lanch the wad D:

[Klofkac]

The example DECORATE code would be handy.
Well, ZDoom wiki should help you.

[The Endertainer]

Depends on how you use it. If its for a projectile actor, you just put it in like so:

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Actor ####
{
	Projectile
	PoisonDamage ## //How much damage you want done over time
        The rest of your actor here......
}

If your trying to execute it through bullets (i have seen that done before), i dont know how exactly...... Also im not sure if poison damage affects monsters, if thats how your gonna use it. If all else fails, mayby set the damagetype to poison?

[Ænima]

Poison damage doesn't affect monsters (only the initial impact damage from the projectile itself).

You'd have to give the monsters a custom Pain state.

[Lord_of_D:]

its for a monster projectile, and heres the code of the projectile:

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Actor HeraldArrow3
{
  Radius 8
  Height 6
  Speed 45
  DamageType "Hero"
  PoisonDamage "15, 10, 2"
  Projectile
  +NoGravity
  +RANDOMIZE
  RenderStyle Add 
  SeeSound "baron/attack"
  DeathSound "baron/shotx"
  States
  {
  Spawn:
   ARBO EF 4 Bright
   Loop
  Death:
   ARBO GHI 6 Bright
   Stop
  }
}

it actually does no damage at all, just hits its target and nothing

[CloudFlash]

Well, you didn't put 'Damage X' in there, so it does no damage. Duh.

[Lord_of_D:]

Well, you didn't put 'Damage X' in there, so it does no damage. Duh.

the problem is what if i even put damage to it, the projectile wont give the poison effect, and if i give the other values to PoisonDamage, it gives me an error D:

[CloudFlash]

Maybe it does the poison effect but monsters dont trigger their pain state? idk much about decorate tbh

[Lord_of_D:]

Maybe it does the poison effect but monsters dont trigger their pain state? idk much about decorate tbh

is there another way of giving a poisonus effect?

[CloudFlash]

Something like

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Actor HeraldArrow3
{
  Radius 8
  Height 6
  Speed 45
  Projectile
  +NoGravity
  +RANDOMIZE
  RenderStyle Add 
  SeeSound "baron/attack"
  DeathSound "baron/shotx"
  States
  {
  Spawn:
   ARBO EF 4 Bright
   Loop
  Death:
   ARBO GHI 6 Bright A_GiveToTarget("Poison", 15)
   Stop
  }
}
Actor Poison : Inventory
{
  States
  {
  Spawn:
TNT1 A 0
   Loop
  }
}
ACTOR monster : monster is some monster.
 States
  {
  Spawn:
  See:
    BOSS AABBCCDD 3 A_Chase
   BOSS A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("poison",1,"getpoisoned")
    Loop
  Pain:
    BOSS H 2
    BOSS H 2 A_Pain
    Goto See
getpoisoned:
BOSS H 0 A_TakeInventory("Health", 5)
goto Pain
  }
}

Code is bad. But you should know what it means

[Lord_of_D:]

yeah, i think to understand it, i'll give it a try. if someone else can give another example, that would be great

[The Endertainer]

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Actor HeraldArrow3
{
  Radius 8
  Height 6
  Speed 45
  Projectile
  +NoGravity
  +RANDOMIZE
  RenderStyle Add 
  SeeSound "baron/attack"
  DeathSound "baron/shotx"
  States
  {
  Spawn:
   ARBO EF 4 Bright
   Loop
  Death:
   ARBO GHI 6 Bright
   Stop
  }
}
Actor Poison : Inventory
{
  States
  {
  Spawn:
TNT1 A 0
   Loop
  }
}
ACTOR monster : monster is some monster.
 States
  {
  Spawn:
  See:
    BOSS AABBCCDD 3 A_Chase
   BOSS A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("poison",1,"getpoisoned")
    Loop
  Pain:
    BOSS H 2
    BOSS H 2 A_Pain
    Goto See
getpoisoned:
BOSS H 0 A_TakeInventory("Health", 5)
goto Pain
  }
}

Actually that would just do 5 extra damage to the monster, not to mention he needs to finish his "see" state in order for the damage to take effect. Now im not an expert on monsters, but i wiped something up real quick (Not tested btw):

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Actor HeraldArrow3
{
  Damage ##
  Radius 8
  Height 6
  Speed 45
  Projectile
  +NoGravity
  +RANDOMIZE
  RenderStyle Add 
  SeeSound "baron/attack"
  DeathSound "baron/shotx"
  DamageType "Poison"
  States
  {
  Spawn:
   ARBO EF 4 Bright
   Loop
  Death:
   ARBO GHI 6 Bright A_GiveToTarget("Poison", 15)
   Stop
  }
}


ACTOR monster
{
 Stuff about your monster........
 Painchance "poison" 255
 States
  {
  Spawn:
  See:
    BOSS AABBCCDD 3 A_Chase
    Loop
  Pain:
    BOSS H 2
    BOSS H 2 A_Pain
    Goto See
Pain.Poison:
    TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("PoisonDamage", 1)//Make this a "powerup" that takes health over time
    BOSS H 2
    BOSS H 2 A_Pain
    Goto See
  }
}

I dont know if this is gonna work, im on a computer wich is not at home right now (no slade3 D:) so i cant test it. Another problem with poison damage is that you would have to edit every single monster in the game to give them a poison pain state. There might be another way through ACS, but im not positive.

[Lord_of_D:]

this is not a projectile for a weapon, this is a projectile what a monster shoots, so i dont really care about poisoning monsters, what i actually care is about poisoning players D:

[CloudFlash]

So just copy the parts from monster which contain anything about poisons and put them on player classes in the same states. Seriously, thinking doesn't hurt that much ._.

[Cruduxy]

Laziest way without any thinking is inheriting from http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/Classes:CStaffMissile .Well this should make the projectile poison any player hit with it.