Reduce self damage from an explosive

[Dufferton]

I'm making a duel mod involving rocket launchers. My goal is to have the explosions of the rockets deal full damage to opponents and 50% reduced damage to the person that fired it, to encourage rocket jumping around.

Is reduced self damage possible? If so, how can I do it?

[Ænima]

Instead of one explosion action ...

EXPL A 2 A_Explode(128,128,1)


... split it into two calls, one of which has the “damage shooter” flag and the other doesn’t:

EXPL A 0 A_Explode(64,128,1)
EXPL A 2 A_Explode(64,128,0)

[Dufferton]

That works for reducing the self damage!

One problem though, now when I rocket jump, I'm not going as high.

Is there a way to make the explosion still push me at full force while dealing half damage?

[Zanieon]

Actually the engine has an internal console command for such effect which is splashfactor.

Setting that to 0.5 should give you the desired effect without any extra-code.

[Empyre]

Maybe A_RadiusThrust would help.