A_Look and viewing distance.

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Kart Krew™️

• Apr 27, 2014

• #1

So I was wondering, how can we set A_Look to work properly?
I mean , my ennemy is a bomb and if it explodes when the player is at 30000 meters from it, it will be useless.

Code:

STATE S_WaitingBomb2
SPRITENAME = PNTY
SPRITEFRAME = A
DURATION = 5
NEXT = S_WaitingBomb1
ACTION A_Look
VAR1 = 1
VAR2 = 0

even by setting VAR1 to 1, it explodes when I'm far from it!
What should I set? The explosion range is the same of a Bomb Ring tough.

 

MascaraSnake

Developer

Sonic Team Junior

• Apr 27, 2014

• #2

The distance limit is in the upper 16 bits, so you need to multiply the value by 65536.

 

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Kart Krew™️

• Apr 27, 2014

• #3

Thanks it works!
But why isn't A_RingExplode damaging players? Or is there any other action spawn an explosion and damages the player?

 

Monster Iestyn

Fangtastic

• Apr 27, 2014

• #4

A_RingExplode uses Painchance to set the damaging distance, which needs to be multiplied by FRACUNIT to be of any good.

 

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Kart Krew™️

• Apr 27, 2014

• #5

Yes, it even spawns a very big explosion but I am not damaged, even by jumping on my ennemy which explode when you manually kill it.

EDIT:

 

Last edited: Apr 27, 2014

Sryder

'That brit'

Kart Krew™️

• Apr 27, 2014

• #6

I believe A_Look set the player to it's target... and I don't think an actor using A_RingExplode can damage their target. If you can set the player to be the tracer instead it should work though. I don't think that there is an equivalent function to A_Look for tracers though, so you may need to create one with lua.

 

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Kart Krew™️

• Apr 27, 2014

• #7

This is not like if I was good at Lua :|
It is say at the wiki that any object with MF_Shootable on them can be damaged by this action tough.