How do I change the weapons a player spawns with?

[m3_mapper]

Hi, I'm trying to work on a mod with modified weapons, and I was wondering how possible it would be to alter which weapons the player would start with. For example, is there a way I could make the player start with a shotgun instead of a pistol? Could I remove the fist from the starting roster? Things like that.

[Lippeth]

You'll need to create a new/inherited player class with all the weapons, ammo and items you want to start with via Decorate or ZScript, and then add the playerclass to the gameinfo section in your mapinfo lump so the game starts with the player you created.

[Lippeth]

1 hour ago, m3_mapper said:

I got to look at the decorate stuff, and not only do I have no clue what half of it does but how to get the gameinfo section to recognise it.

In that case I recommend looking through your favorite mods that have custom classes, and seeing how they do it. If you're unsure of what something does, just type "zdoom" followed by the term you want to know more about into google and the most relevant zdoom.org link should be at the top.

 

Here's a wad that should demonstrate how it's done.

shotgun-player.zip

[Albertoni]

15 hours ago, m3_mapper said:

yea and were talking gzdoom here

 

Fair, but the correct answer was already posted, so I wrote the vanilla explanation in case someone in a pair of years has the same question but for vanilla, and finds this thread through google or something.

[ramon.dexter]

If you are looking for help for gzdoom, head over to the zdoom forums. Doomworld is focused more on vanilla and dehacked, so most people wont give you any clue regarding gzdoom.

[Doomkid]

15 hours ago, ramon.dexter said:

If you are looking for help for gzdoom, head over to the zdoom forums. Doomworld is focused more on vanilla and dehacked, so most people wont give you any clue regarding gzdoom.

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The top reply in this thread is Lippeth giving a consice a GZDoom-compatible answer, and I see decorate/UDMF questions getting answered over here all the time.. Not to say you shouldn't go to ZDoom or anything, but it just seems like a weird post given that I see "non vanilla/non oldschool" questions answered over here daily, lol

[Biz!]

gzdoom or vanilla?

[m3_mapper]

gzdoom. Everyone I've heard of uses gzdoom as their primary.

[Biz!]

There has been a rise with vanilla, a lot of people prefer source ports such as DSDA-Doom, Doom Retro, even Chocolate Doom, but back on topic I cant help you with that, another person can though.

[m3_mapper]

2 minutes ago, Redoom said:

There has been a rise with vanilla, a lot of people prefer source ports such as DSDA-Doom, Doom Retro, even Chocolate Doom, but back on topic I cant help you with that, another person can though.

who would that be?

[Biz!]

5 minutes ago, m3_mapper said:

who would that be?

about half this community

[m3_mapper]

hmm...so what exactly should I do?

[Albertoni]

For vanilla, I'm like 99% sure (never did this myself, but the options are there) you can, say, replace all the pistol sprites by the shotgun sprites, and the shooting codepointers as well. But I'm pretty sure starting with the fists and the gun in slot 2 is hardcoded.

[m3_mapper]

53 minutes ago, Albertoni said:

For vanilla, I'm like 99% sure (never did this myself, but the options are there) you can, say, replace all the pistol sprites by the shotgun sprites, and the shooting codepointers as well. But I'm pretty sure starting with the fists and the gun in slot 2 is hardcoded.

yea and were talking gzdoom here

[m3_mapper]

1 hour ago, Lippeth said:

You'll need to create a new/inherited player class with all the weapons, ammo and items you want to start with via Decorate or ZScript, and then add the playerclass to the gameinfo section in your mapinfo lump so the game starts with the player you created.

I got to look at the decorate stuff, and not only do I have no clue what half of it does but how to get the gameinfo section to recognise it.

[Razumen]

If you're using GZDoom, modifying decorate files is probably overkill and might conflict with other mods. Easiest way is probably to use an ACS script that runs when the player enters the map with the takeinventory/clearinventory and giveinventory commands.