Flamethrower: custom DECORATE weapon

[Artman2004]

This is my first ever custom weapon. It's a flamethrower with limited range, custom sound effects, and custom sprites.

Download it here: First ever flamethrower.zip

 

Feel free to give some feedback.

[Kan3]

Always nice to see people making new actors :D

 

The texture and the sound are really good, love them, not a bad idea to use the archvile fire either, BUT:

• Why are you replacing the chainsaw?
• I think new custom ammo would fit better than cells
• The weapon is lacking some more "animation", like a couple more frames for the fire state (even if I didn't really miss that) and a flash state.
• You're using deprecated actions and flags (A_FireCustomMissile and FIREDAMAGE)
• The weapons is freaking overpowered, I melt a cyberdemon in a few seconds with only ~50 cells. You should drastically reduce the damage, probably give the projectile gravity and reduce the fire rate (not really reduce it, or it would look awkward as a flamethrower, but adding 1 ore 2 "dummy" projectiles with no damage in the middle of fire to alternate the real flames, so that you can maintain the fire rate, or even increase it, without making a cheating weapon).
  It would be cool to add a fire DoT, using the PoisonDamage and PoisonDamageType properties.

[Artman2004]

7 minutes ago, Kan3 said:

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Thanks for the feedback!

 

1. The flamethrower replacing the chainsaw was for testing purposes. 

2. I might add that, but I don't know how to do custom ammo yet.

3. I didn't want to code too much, so that's why.

4. I was following tutorials, and a lot of them said to use A_CustomMissile. Oops.

5. Damn, I didn't know it was THAT powerful. I'll have to nerf it.

6. I don't know how to do that, either.

 

It's my first custom weapon, and I've still got a lot to learn. 

[Kan3]

20 minutes ago, Artman2004 said:

1. The flamethrower replacing the chainsaw was for testing purposes. 

2. I might add that, but I don't know how to do custom ammo yet.

3. I didn't want to code too much, so that's why.

4. I was following tutorials, and a lot of them said to use A_CustomMissile. Oops.

5. Damn, I didn't know it was THAT powerful. I'll have to nerf it.

6. I don't know how to do that, either.

I see, very nice job for a first weapon, cause usually something breaks somewhere when you try to make something not as basic as a standard doom weapon variant x)
Not really much in reality, I bet you're going to grasp the details pretty quickly!
(No one have the will to update their tutorials I see... go for the ZDoom Wiki, search for the functions, flags, property etc. that you need there, it will direct you to the most recent stuff and point out what's deprecated.