Weapon editing

[Skitso]

How can I change weapon statistics (rate of fire, damage, clip size...) in Doomsday? Thanks!

[Zach Keene]

Weapon damage is pretty much hard-coded, although you can adjust the damage of missile attacks slightly with DED editing. (See Objects.ded for example.)

By clip size I assume you mean the amount of ammo given per clip? In jDoom this is controlled by Values.ded, and in jHeretic this is determined by the "Spawn Health" parameter for each ammo object (again check jHeretic's Objects.ded for examples.)

See also the Wiki page (http://deng.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view/Editing/WebHome) on DED editing.

[Skitso]

Actually with clip size I ment maximum amount of bullets player is capable of carrying... and what about rate of fire? In deathmatch, I've noticed that plasma rifle would be much more balanced weapon if it's rate of fire would be slightly slower.

[Zach Keene]

Actually with clip size I ment maximum amount of bullets player is capable of carrying...

Ah. Fiddling with Values.ded should take care of that as well.

and what about rate of fire? In deathmatch, I've noticed that plasma rifle would be much more balanced weapon if it's rate of fire would be slightly slower.

Not sure about this; I'd assume you'd have to slow down the firing animation. Looks like you can mess with the state definitions in Objects.ded to accomplish this but I'm not the one to ask exactly how.

[Skitso]

I managed to alter the "clip" size to my liking in values.ded but the rate of fire thing still puzzles me a bit. I was able to slow super shot gun's loading animation down a bit and make the chainsaw two times quicker (deadly!) but for some reason I cannot slow down the plasma cannon... Even if I put 50 tics in every frame, nothing changes... I'm using jDRP. Any ideas?

Thanks! :)

[Skitso]

Anyone? Please tell me how to make the chaingun fire rate a bit faster and plasma gun fire rate slower.

[Vermil]

The JDRP deds also contain state definitions. It may be that said states are overruling your changes.

For instance state definitions in objects.ded are ignored if there is another ded containing identically named state definitions, being loaded.

[Skitso]

I took the jDRP off and now the changes I made changes work. Now the problem is: how to change the weapon stats in jDRP?

[Vermil]

Open up the JDRP.pk3 and look in the Data/Auto folder where you will find the JDRP models each contained in separate pk3's.

Find the pk3 for the thing you wish to edit and open it (All the player weapons have "HUD" in front of them). Then go through the folders until you find the ded for the model.

The states are at the top of the ded. You can either make your changes to them instead or delete them so Dday uses yours instead.

Though some of the states in the JDRP deds may have been slightly altered from the originals in objects.ded for some of the model effects, so there is a chance deleting them may cause minor problems with the related model.

[Skitso]

Ah... I didn't notice the HUD -ones and was editing the on level weapons sprites! Stupid me. :) Alas, Doomsday won't start when I have modified the file. The error message says that it has illegal compression method or something... what is the right compression to use? I use Winrar. Thanks!

[Slide]

Store only Compression

[Skitso]

Yeah, I figured it out already. Thanks for your help, guys. My mod is going to be astounding! ;)

[Skitso]

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