Adjusted projectile speeds across the board for more consistency.

Tweaked guided redeemer missile movement, no longer makes sharp turns.
Additional development notes so I don't forget what I should do next.

Readme.md

@@ -45,10 +45,25 @@ This mod requires GZDoom 3.4.0 or later.
 
 ## In progress
 
- - Make biorifle sludge follow ceiling and wall movement (this might be hard)
- - Add some more effects, maybe some nicer recoil on guns too
  - General polishing and bugfixing
- - Trim out unused animations
+ - Make biorifle sludge follow ceiling and wall movement (this might be hard)
+ - Add some more effects
+   - Additional particle effects on explosions
+   - Smoke on spent casings
+   - Visual recoil affecting aim (time to recycle SM's A_Swing once again)
+ - Additional model optimization and cleanup
+   - Trim out unused animations (this one is going to be very time-consuming)
+   - Unify some texture groups (umodel does some weird thing where it separates
+     unlit polys into a new group, even when they're not supposed to be)
+   - Trim out garbage triangles (e.g.: an extra triangle in the biorifle that
+     has no reason to exist (can be seen when using invisibility, looks
+     completely out of place there)
+   - Recenter the backpack mesh (it was a complete hack job to begin with)
+
+## Future plans
+
+ - Add ammo counters to Pulsegun, Minigun, Flak Cannon and Rocket Launcher once
+   scripted textures are implemented.
 
 ## Known bugs
 

zscript/biorifle.zsc

@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ Class BioGel : Actor
 		Radius 3;
 		Height 3;
 		Scale 2;
-		Speed 20;
+		Speed 18;
 		PROJECTILE;
 		-NOGRAVITY;
 		+SKYEXPLODE;

zscript/eightball.zsc

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Class UTRocket : Actor
 		DamageType 'RocketDeath';
 		Radius 2;
 		Height 2;
-		Speed 30;
+		Speed 18;
 		PROJECTILE;
 		+SKYEXPLODE;
 		+EXPLODEONWATER;
@@ -163,10 +163,16 @@ Class UTRocket : Actor
 		{
 			A_SetRoll(roll+30,SPF_INTERPOLATE);
 			Vector3 dir = vel.unit();
+			if ( waterlevel <= 0 ) vel = dir*min(vel.length()+1,32);
 			A_SetAngle(atan2(dir.y,dir.x),SPF_INTERPOLATE);
 			A_SetPitch(asin(-dir.z),SPF_INTERPOLATE);
 			if ( tracer ) A_SeekerMissile(0,2,SMF_PRECISE);
-			Spawn("UTSmoke",pos);
+			for ( int i=0; i<3; i++ )
+			{
+				let s = Spawn("UTSmoke",pos);
+				s.vel = (FRandom[Eightball](-0.2,0.2),FRandom[Eightball](-0.2,0.2),FRandom[Eightball](-0.2,0.2));
+				s.vel += vel*0.1;
+			}
 		}
 		Wait;
 	Death:
@@ -308,8 +314,8 @@ Class UTRocketLauncher : UTWeapon
 				s = FRandom[Eightball](0,0.06*(num-1));
 				Vector3 dir = (x2+cos(a)*y2*s+sin(a)*z2*s).unit();
 				p = Spawn("UTGrenade",origin);
-				p.vel = dir*p.speed*FRandom[Eightball](1.0,1.2);
-				p.vel.z += 5;
+				p.vel = x*(vel dot x)*0.4 + dir*p.speed*FRandom[Eightball](1.0,1.2);
+				p.vel.z += 6;
 				p.target = self;
 			}
 		}

zscript/flakcannon.zsc

@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ Class FlakSlug : Actor
 	override void PostBeginPlay()
 	{
 		Super.PostBeginPlay();
-		vel.z += 5;
+		vel.z += 4;
 	}
 	override void Tick()
 	{

zscript/minigun.zsc

@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ Class MinigunTracer : Actor
 	{
 		Super.Tick();
 		Vector3 dir = level.Vec3Diff(pos,dest);
-		if ( dir.length() < 200 )
+		if ( dir.length() < 160 )
 		{
 			Destroy();
 			return;
 		}
 		dir = dir.unit();
-		SetOrigin(Vec3Offset(dir.x*200,dir.y*200,dir.z*200),true);
+		SetOrigin(Vec3Offset(dir.x*160,dir.y*160,dir.z*160),true);
 		A_SetAngle(atan2(dir.y,dir.x),SPF_INTERPOLATE);
 		A_SetPitch(asin(-dir.z),SPF_INTERPOLATE);
 		A_SetRoll(roll+60,SPF_INTERPOLATE);

zscript/pulsegun.zsc

@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ Class PulseBall : Actor
 		PROJECTILE;
 		+EXPLODEONWATER;
 		+SKYEXPLODE;
-		Scale 0.2;
-		Speed 30;
+		Scale 0.19;
+		Speed 29;
 		Radius 2;
 		Height 2;
 	}

zscript/ripper.zsc

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Class Razor2 : Actor
 	{
 		Radius 2;
 		Height 2;
-		Speed 50;
+		Speed 40;	// should be 26 but it looks way too slow
 		DamageFunction Random[Ripper](30,40);
 		DamageType 'Ripper';
 		Obituary "%k ripped a chunk of meat out of %o with the Ripper.";

zscript/warheadlauncher.zsc

@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Class WarShell : Actor
 		Obituary "%o was vaporized by %k's Redeemer!!";
 		Radius 2;
 		Height 2;
-		Speed 2;
+		Speed 12;
 		DamageType 'RedeemerDeath';
 		DamageFactor 1000;
 		PROJECTILE;
@@ -279,9 +279,9 @@ Class WarShell : Actor
 			if ( waterlevel > 0 )
 			{
 				vel *= 0.98;
-				if ( vel.length() < 5 ) vel += vel.unit()*0.5;
+				if ( vel.length() < 12 ) vel += vel.unit();
 			}
-			else if ( vel.length() < 10 ) vel += vel.unit()*0.5;
+			else if ( vel.length() < 40 ) vel += vel.unit();
 		}
 	}
 	action void A_Trail()
@@ -395,13 +395,7 @@ Class GuidedWarShell : WarShell
 			A_SetAngle(destangle,SPF_INTERPOLATE);
 			A_SetPitch(destpitch,SPF_INTERPOLATE);
 			A_SetRoll(destroll,SPF_INTERPOLATE);
-			vel = vel.length()*(cos(angle)*cos(pitch),sin(angle)*cos(pitch),-sin(pitch));
-			if ( waterlevel > 0 )
-			{
-				vel *= 0.98;
-				if ( vel.length() < 5 ) vel += vel.unit()*0.5;
-			}
-			else if ( vel.length() < 10 ) vel += vel.unit()*0.5;
+			vel = (vel+(cos(angle)*cos(pitch),sin(angle)*cos(pitch),-sin(pitch))*0.8).unit()*11;
 		}
 		lagangle2 = lagangle2*0.95+lagangle*0.05;
 		lagpitch2 = lagpitch2*0.95+lagpitch*0.05;