Altering Monster Attributes

jbo1994 | 2012-03-15 23:10

I'm looking to make a mod that alters the monsters, and I need to know what the values in the "struct monstertype" section do (mostly, I need to know how to increase the rate of fire for chaingun monsters). The source says to look at the docs, but There isn't actually any information on the source in the docs. I'm also wondering how to increase the maximum ammo for weapons.

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Hero | 2012-03-16 15:11

There is, however, information on what those values do.
http://sauerbraten.org/docs/game.html#singleplayer_modes

About the maximum ammo: check in static struct itemstat in fpsgame/game.h

jbo1994 | 2012-03-18 14:25

Thanks, Hero!

Chasester_aka_you | 2012-03-20 05:35

to change the rate of fire for monsters u most speed up the time it takes between the search aim and fire states ... to do this look for the switch statement in monsters.cpp contaning N_AIM, etc. it should be about 3/4 down. you will want to modify the chagestate() function (i do believe it is called that).. if u modify the values in there than u can increase the speed of fire.

alternatively you can increase there skill level (this will do the same thing as above)

Monsters are fpsents so they have the same attributes as players, ai, etc, also they inherate from dynent, so if you add an attribute for a player than a monster will inherent it :)

Max ammo for weapons is in the struct-vector called weapon in the game.h (i think), do a find for fist

chasester

Suicizer | 2012-03-20 18:46

You could also use gamespeed, but it also effects any other things of the gameplay...

jbo1994 | 2012-03-20 22:23

the objective is to increase the default RoF without altering the player rate of fire, in order to make chaingun monsters seem like they actually have a chaingun and not a tiny pistol.

FischKopF | 2012-03-21 14:38

who cares about sauers singleplayer anyway? it's literally bullshit and nobody plays it.

Zaaikort | 2012-03-21 17:24

I do! But SP is played offline, so you can't know.

jbo1994 | 2012-03-29 00:56

How would I go about changing the player's speed?

Chasester_aka_you | 2012-05-06 23:28

look for a var named maxspeed ... each fpsent (an fpsent is any movable ent with a control (player, monster, ai ect)) so the code would go like this:

players[0]->maxspeed = 0 // this would stop the first player in the players list from moving
//or
loopv(players)
   if(!strcmp(player[i]->name, "GOD")) //NOTE: strcmp returns true if the values are not equal 0.0 dont ask
      player[i]->maxspeed = 0 //
//above code stops any player named GOD and will not let them move

player1->maxspeed = 0 //this will not allow player one to move

loopv(monsters)
   if(monsters[i]->mtype == 0) //if the monster is the first value in the monster list (baal i think)
      monsters[i]->maxspeed = 0;
//above code stops any monster of type 0

loopv(players)
   if(players[i]->AItype)
       players[i]->maxspeed = 0

//stops any player that is of type ai (is controlled by ai and not a user)

simply put maxspeed is a property of the fpsent struct (structs are simlar to classes)
other properties are:
frags
flags
pmodel //model that is rendered for that user

Jed | 2012-05-06 10:57

It's not difficult. Edit the values in monster.cpp in:

static const monstertype monstertypes[NUMMONSTERTYPES] =
{
{ gun, speed, health, freq, lag, rate, pain, loyalty, bscale, weight, painsound, diesound, *name, *mdlname, *vwepname},
};

To edit weapons, modify weapon.cpp

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