Quake-style backpack drop

[Ijon Tichy]

THE SHORT'N'SWEET: When you die, you drop a backpack with all your ammo and your last weapon.

You know how in Quake, when you die, you drop a backpack containing all your ammo and the weapon in your hands? You know how that's not really been available in Doom (at least, not without a proper pickup message)? Well, that's all changed.

Basically, when you die, you'll have a backpack drop from your corpse (with no momentum), which as the above few sentences said, contains all your ammo, and the weapon you were just fighting with. When you pick up it, you'll see a message such as "You got a rocket launcher, 50 bullets, 28 shells, 8 rockets". Yes, the pickup message actually reflects what's in the ammo pack. If you're familiar with DECORATE, feel free to have your mind blown now. (Well, it's just a clientside Log with heavy StrParam usage, but that removes some of the magic, now doesn't it?)

Don't run this with sv_weapondrop on. That'd be stupid.

No screenshots - what do want to see a screenshot of? A backpack on a dead marine? A pickup message? Yeah, um...

DOWNLOAD: http://filesmelt.com/dl/quakebpak1-1.zip

Fixed Pending Unfixable

• When playing offline, every time a bot picks up an ammo pack, you see the pickup message

[Ivan]

Very cool, I take it A_SetBlend is actually in Zandronum now ?

[Ijon Tichy]

A_SetBlend's been in since 98d, and if it's still in there, it's just there so that a state doesn't get dummied out
(the pickup flash is FadeRange)

[Synert]

oh holy shit that's cool.

[Zakken]

Interesting stuff. :)

[Thetis]

Awesome!

[katZune]

heh, nice idea (was in quake but is nice)