Aiming Custom Projectiles ACS

[nambona890]

So what I'm trying to do is fire a custom projectile at a player using SpawnProjectile, but I don't know how to get it to aim at the player each time. There might be a trick with angles that I do not know about, but I would like some help please.

[Ænima]

http://zdoom.org/wiki/Thing_ProjectileAimed

[ZZYZX]

Didn't he say CUSTOM projectiles? And Thing_ProjectileAimed in ZDoom prior to 2.7.1 requires a spawnid which can't be assigned to custom actors.

[Ænima]

Didn't he say CUSTOM projectiles? And Thing_ProjectileAimed in ZDoom prior to 2.7.1 requires a spawnid which can't be assigned to custom actors.

Whoops, my bad. Sorry. I've honestly never tried to spawn a custom projectile with that function. :p


You could always just spawn a custom invisible DECORATE actor that A_FaceTarget's the player and fires your projectile instantly.

[nambona890]

Didn't he say CUSTOM projectiles? And Thing_ProjectileAimed in ZDoom prior to 2.7.1 requires a spawnid which can't be assigned to custom actors.

Whoops, my bad. Sorry. I've honestly never tried to spawn a custom projectile with that function. :p


You could always just spawn a custom invisible DECORATE actor that A_FaceTarget's the player and fires your projectile instantly.

Ok, even though it's a bit tacky doing that, i'll try it.

[nambona890]

http://puu.sh/b5sHZ/7c0fe6648a.wad Well I got it sort of done, here is the bare basis of it.

[ZzZombo]

You can just give the player an CustomInventory that will launch the projectile:

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actor PlayerMissileHelper:CustomInventory
{
	States
	{
		Pickup:
		TNT1 A 0 A_CustomMissile/A_FireCustomMissile(your params)
		stop
	}
}
//ACS
script 3000 RESPAWN//correct it as you need.
{
	GiveInventory("PlayerMissileHelper",1);
}

[nambona890]

You can just give the player an CustomInventory that will launch the projectile:

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actor PlayerMissileHelper:CustomInventory
{
	States
	{
		Pickup:
		TNT1 A 0 A_CustomMissile/A_FireCustomMissile(your params)
		stop
	}
}
//ACS
script 3000 RESPAWN//correct it as you need.
{
	GiveInventory("PlayerMissileHelper",1);
}

I was talking about have a missile fire at the player from a different source, but never mind, I got it done. It is on my latest terrywad called usewdept. Check it out when Ty puts it into newstuff.