Friendly Fire / Infighting between hitscan monsters off?

Hi!

Actually the title is kinda misleading, since I already figured a way to prevent infighting.

Anyway, I'm trying to make a zombieman variant that could effectively fight in packs. The problem with the current zombieman is that when there are a few combined in a small space they kill each other before the player can even realize they ever existed.

The problem is: Is there a way of preventing damage between peers or species groups? I'm sure a lot of mappers have been frustrated with their monsters slaying each other before desired. The projectile monsters such as imps and cacodemons never harm a peer, so any ideas how to create a similar effect between hitscan monsters?

In ZDoom, you can use custom damage types, and give the monsters corresponding damage factors of 0. The Wolf 3D TC uses this IIRC.

Actor Myzombie
{
Damagetype "Mydamagetype"
Damagefactor "Mydamagetype", 0
}

I tried defining the properties as above, since a hitscan weapon utilizing monster obviously cannot have a projectile to set the damage type to. Didn't work, what am I missing here?

Hitscan damagetype must be set on the puff.

Got it to work, thanks a lot :)

Glad to hear it. :)