BasicProjectile is an actor that can be inherited from to get an actor that will receive projectile team colors and acts as a projectile, colliding on terrain and other actors, making it a good starting step for a projectile.

If your projectile has a speed higher than 60, you should use [BasicFastProjectile](<https://mm8bdm.notion.site/BasicFastProjectile-46b999123b704437822c07226eff796d>) instead!

DECORATE Definition

<aside> 🚨 Wait! Stop! Before you copy this actor's definition into your mod, remember the following things:

• You do not need to copy this actor, since it is already defined.
• In fact, it's not just useless, it's actually harmful as it can cause problems.
• If you want to use it as a basis, using inheritance is the way to go.
• The actor definitions here are put on the wiki for reference purpose only. Learn from them, don't copy them into your mod. </aside>

actor BasicProjectile : ProjSpawnFuncActor
{
    PROJECTILE
    damagetype "Buster"
    Obituary "%o told %k they forgot the obituary. (BasicProjectile)"
    Speed 27
    Damage (5000)
    radius 5
    height 5
    scale 2.5
    States
    {
    Spawn:
        BUST A 1
		    wait
    }
}

Custom Properties

These are user variables that can be added to the actor for various effects. You do not need to give them a value, they just must be defined.

• var int user_NoTranslation - Disables projectile team colors on this actor

• var int user_TranslateWhiteColors - Allows projectile team colors to recolor white.

• var int user_TranslateBlackColors - Allows projectile team colors to recolor black.

• var int user_PierceRipper - Makes it so that this actor only does damage once to another actor. The actor being damaged must have [+USEDAMAGEEVENTSCRIPT](<https://wiki.zandronum.com/DECORATE#:~:text=USEDAMAGEEVENTSCRIPT>), like players already do.

  • You can fine-tune the number of times that this actor deals damage by using A_GiveInventory("PierceRipperLimit", x) in the Spawn state of the actor.

• var int user_DamageKill - Makes it so that this actor only does damage once before entering Death state. The actor that is being damaged must have [+USEDAMAGEEVENTSCRIPT](<https://wiki.zandronum.com/DECORATE#:~:text=USEDAMAGEEVENTSCRIPT>), like players already do. The actor with this flag must also have reactiontime set.

  • The amount of times that this actor can deal damage before perishing is determined by the reactiontime value. A projectile with reactiontime 3 will only be able to damage 3 times to any players before dying.

• var int user_noOwnerDamage - If the actor has the +SHOOTABLE actor flag, the [+USEDAMAGEEVENTSCRIPT](<https://wiki.zandronum.com/DECORATE#:~:text=USEDAMAGEEVENTSCRIPT>) actor flag, and a health value, this property will prevent the owner of the actor as well as their teammates from dealing damage to it.

Example

Here is the projectile actor that Hard Knuckle uses in MM8BDM.

actor HardKnuckle : BasicProjectile
{
	damagetype "HardKnuckle"
	Obituary "$OB_HARDKNUCKLE"
	
	Speed 38
	Radius 12
	Height 10
	Damage (75)
	
	States
	{
		Spawn:
			HARD A 3
			loop
		Death:
			TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("ExplosionEffect1", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SXF_WEPFXCOLOR)
			stop
	}
}

See Also

BasicBouncer

BasicFastProjectile