Zelda Classic 2.50.2

[ZoriaRPG]

Okay, so it was a dark and stormy night...I was scripting a scythe swinging attack for a boss in Freedom in Chains. The attack had a slash animation made up of about 20 gradually shrinking circle draw commands. I wanted the whole thing to have collision, so I put weapons of approximately the same size under each circle and used ghost.zh to make them only last for one frame. I assumed it would only hit Link once per frame, but in testing it was an instant kill, way more than I'd set the weapons to deal. I figured ZC combines the damage of every weapon colliding with Link in the frame he gets hurt and so I switched to scripted collision instead. With only one weapon being created under Link when he collided with the attack, it worked fine.

Clarify one thing please...

Did you set up the dummy weapons to use a ->Power setting to apply damage, or did you use the custom circular collision, and directly modify Link's HP (e.g. Link->HP -= amount) ?

The latter will always stack, per frame.

[Moosh]

Clarify one thing please...

Did you set up the dummy weapons to use a ->Power setting to apply damage, or did you use the custom circular collision, and directly modify Link's HP (e.g. Link->HP -= amount) ?

The latter will always stack, per frame.

I used weapons. If I hadn't, it'd probably kill me from lack of invincibility frames.

[ZoriaRPG]

I used weapons. If I hadn't, it'd probably kill me from lack of invincibility frames.

I'm checking, as I remember something about circular collision, and I never saw your code. Often, circular collision looks like this:

if ( CircularCollision(ew->x, ew->Y, radius1, Link->X, Link->Y, radius2) Link->HP -= val;

...but as you say you used ew->Power, my original point stands, as this may be something that needs examination.

[Moosh]

I'm checking, as I remember something about circular collision, and I never saw your code. Often, circular collision looks like this:

if ( CircularCollision(ew->x, ew->Y, radius1, Link->X, Link->Y, radius2) Link->HP -= val;

...but as you say you used ew->Power, my original point stands, as this may be something that needs examination.

It's ew->Damage, isn't it? Itemclasses are the ones that use Power I thought. But anyways, yes, I did use a weapon with ew->Damage.

Also, crossposting from the PureZC thread:

const int NPCM_SHOTCOOLDOWN = 0; //NPC->Misc used for fireball shooter cooldown

const int FIREBALL_SHOOTER_COOLDOWN = 80; //Duration of fireball shooter cooldown in frames
const int FIREBALL_SHOOTER_CHANCE = 64; //Chance of firing every frame

void UnforgivingShooters(){
	for(int i=1; i<=Screen->NumNPCs(); i++){ //Loops through every enemy, every frame. If you have an enemy loop in your global already, you'll want to combine them
		npc n = Screen->LoadNPC(i); 
		if(n->ID==NPC_SHOOTFBALL){ //Detect the fireball shooter
			if(n->Misc[NPCM_SHOTCOOLDOWN]<=FIREBALL_SHOOTER_COOLDOWN){ //Increase the shot timer until the cooldown is over
				n->Misc[NPCM_SHOTCOOLDOWN]++;
			}
			else if(Rand(FIREBALL_SHOOTER_CHANCE)==0){ //Once the cooldown has ended, has a random chance of firing a weapon every frame
				Game->PlaySound(SFX_FIREBALL);
				eweapon fball = CreateEWeaponAt(EW_FIREBALL, n->X, n->Y);
				fball->Angular = true;
				fball->Angle = DegtoRad(Angle(n->X, n->Y, Link->X, Link->Y));
				fball->Dir = AngleDir4(Angle(n->X, n->Y, Link->X, Link->Y));
				fball->Step = 150;
				fball->UseSprite(17);
				fball->Damage = n->WeaponDamage;
				n->Misc[NPCM_SHOTCOOLDOWN] = 0;
			}
		}
	}
}

I wrote a global script for the old shooter behavior in case anybody else is rustled by the change like Anarchy_Balsac was. Just set the Shooter (Fireball) enemy's weapon to none, put the function in your global script, and your shooters will once again have no mercy.