Multiple Missle Attacks for monsters

[spaztacus]

I am trying to make a monster that has two missile attacks. Can this be done? and how? The attacks will occur based on the range the enemy is from the player.

[Mithral_Demon]

It's possible, if you look at the Annihilator (double rocket blaster), he shoots two rockets at once, so if you want to have a monster to shoot 2 types of rockets i'd say...


Set the first volley of "normal" rockets for 2 seconds (depending on how fast the reload is) which each second sends 2 rockets, and on the 2nd second it fires two "normal" and .5 second later fires your "Special" rocket.

I'm no DECORATE rocket scientist, but as said, possible.

[spaztacus]

not quite what I was looking for. Lets say I wanted a zombieman to shoot a regular gun shot at at a distance of 200 from target and a imp ball at a distance of 100 from target. Is this possible?

[GreyGhost]

It is possible. One way would be to give the zombie a melee attack state with a range to 100 - using the Imp fireball as it's melee attack and the gun when further away.

[TKOJ]

you can use the jump function when writing in DECORATE. The Revenant uses this to determine if it will fire a rocket or throw a punch.

it looks kinda like this:

states
{
Spawn:
blahblahblah
Missile:
REVN A 0 A_JumpIfCloser(100,"Melee")
REVN A 1 A_FireCustomMissile("RevenantTracer")
Melee:
REVN A 1 RevenantMelee

well thats not exactly what it looks like but you get the idea right?

http://zdoom.org/wiki/Action_functions

look at taht page