Making Sticky Bombs

[Ivan]

I've recently tried to code a sticky bomb from Shadow Warrior (again, because of new features and old one was buggy) but now I have some new problems. The bomb will jump up and down when it's attached to a monster. I believe it had to do with trying to constantly move itself to the monster. It looks really jittery and fucked up. Here's a little test wad.

stickytest

I'd like to know if anyone had any success coding this without this issue happening, if so I'd like to use it.

[fr blood]

I've managed to make something close to this, but the projectile will stay stuck to the monster only if they are in front of you, so behind a wall it will stop following the monster.

If you want the code I can share it here.

[Ivan]

That's not quite what I want though, but thanks anyway.

[Lollipop]

IIRC there is a weapon on r667 that does something like what you described. I have forgotten which one it is though.

[CloudFlash]

Does anyone recall a gun named 'Flare gun'? I don't remember exactly what mod was it in, but I do remember it working in kinda similar way sticky bombs should work in - namely, you shot a monster and a small fire followed them for a moment before exploding and damaging the target

[Ivan]

Apparently calling A_SeekerMissile constantly when it's attached is bad, and it makes it just do a jittery move around the actor. Also, the Flare gun from Blood apparently requires the "NOAUTOAIM" to not be present at all, otherwise it won't work. This is totally weird, but I guess for a quick workaround that's good enough.

[Klofkac]

Maybe this is more ideal?

[Ivan]

Maybe this is more ideal?

Not available in Zandronum yet though.

[Klofkac]

Maybe this is more ideal?

Not available in Zandronum yet though.

Oh, it was added in ZDoom 2.6.0, damn...

[Ænima]

Yeah I think the WARPF_COPYINTERPOLATION flag would have done you good.