DieHard Wolfers

[doomjedi]

Guys, can end level HUD-"weapon" animation, (like in Duke Nukem 3D) be implemented? I'll be most useful. Then he can interact with the exit texture (or even door or scenery object (giving him something) - to put a card, crystal...)

Using this I can even depict the player entering exit doors or certain areas in third person view, like in the end of wolf3d (but without changing the view angle).

All we have to do is to make another "melee/close range" weapon..so the only trick is to automatically "shoot/activate" that weapon (/hud animation) when interacting (using space) with particular texture...actually we can use such features inside levels to depict him entering teleports and such...tons of uses ...for interacting with different objects and using 3rd person view transitions.

Does anyone has an idea how to implement such?

[the_fish]

Mighty Foot?

It might be better to divorce it completely from the weapon code, and do it entirely in the DrawPlayerWeapon function. Create a global int somewhere (possibly in gamestate, if you eventually want this to be not-entirely-cosmetic, such as the foot) controlling the frame (-1 = draw weapon as normal).

Then in PlayLoop, wait until n tics have elapsed and increment the frame if it isnt zero, and reset it to zero if it exceeds the last frame. Say, 5 frames (0,1,2,3,4):

::: CODE :::

//call this every 10 tics, say...
if (notaweapon_frame != -1)
{
    notaweapon_frame++;
    if (!(notaweapon_frame % 5)) notaweapon_frame = -1;
}

Then you can add as many different animation sequences (all 5 frames long) as you like, each controlled by setting notaweapon_frame to 0, 5, 10 etc, whenever you'd want to perform an action. You might want GunAttack to reset it to -1 also.

Just how I'd do it

[doomjedi]

Thanks. That's some useful info