Is size manipulation possible for a character WAD?

[Zoroark]

So, I'm sure everyone knows about how they modify your size in Egg Rock Zone Act 2 if they've played through the game... I want to know if it's possible to do that but as a character WAD feature. Is it possible to do that?

Also, I just joined the forum, so sorry if it's hard to understand my questions until I get used to posting here.

I'm going to be making my first character WAD soon, but I mostly want to find out what is possible and what is not possible first, in terms of character features. So, any ideas if this would be possible?

 

[Puppyfaic]

Yes, it is possible. I can't provide any code for it at the moment though.

 

[Knux576]

addHook("MobjSpawn", function(mo)
	mo.scaleinit = 1 // tells the script whether to initialise brak's scale (1) or not (0)
	mo.normscale = mo.scale // "normal" scale
	mo.brakscale = mo.scale*4 // "brak" scale
	mo.banim = 0 // brak attack animation currently being used
	mo.oldbuttons = 0 // stores what buttons were pressed last tic
end, MT_PLAYER)

// Function for MobjThinker hook to use, required to be in function(mobj) format
// "return false" or "return" on its own allows the normal behaviour to carry on as normal after this
// "return true" would make this stop the normal behaviour from running after this
// in this case at least we don't need to (or want to) overwrite normal player behavior, that would cause some problems!
local function HandleBrakScale(brak)
	if not brak.player //somehow this isn't even a player??
		return
	end
	
	if brak.normscale == nil or brak.brakscale == nil //EMERGENCY
		brak.normscale = brak.scale
		brak.brakscale = brak.scale*4
	end
	
	//29/03/14 - Handle scales here now, and in a much more simple manner! Far more efficient now
	if brak.skin == "brakeggman"
		if brak.scaleinit
			brak.scale = brak.brakscale // set to brak scale
			brak.scaleinit = 0
		end
	else //normal skins - switching skins is properly supported now!
		if brak.scale == brak.brakscale
			brak.scale = brak.normscale
		end
		brak.scaleinit = 1
	end
end

addHook("MobjThinker", HandleBrakScale, MT_PLAYER)

Ripped straight from Brak Eggman's lua file, just edit it to work for your character and it should work probably maybe?

EDIT: You might also want to set the SF_HIRES skin flag then set highresscale.