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Slingshot Goat

Call me... Sogeking! Hem, I mean... Slingeking!

This is not just a tongue, this is a slingshot! I can use it to grab everything at a distance and to throw it where I want!

NOTE: For easier aiming, use this mod with the First Person Camera.

Any question or problem to use this mod? Click here to read the FAQ.

FEATURES
- Slingshot Goat: Can grab objects far away and throw them where you look.

KEYBOARD CONTROLS
- [E]: Hold for long range lick, release to retract your tongue.
- [R]: Hold to charge a shot, release to fire.
- [R]: Transform the object you lick into an egg.

GAMEPAD CONTROLS
- [X]: Hold for long range lick, release to retract your tongue.
- [Y]: Hold to charge a shot, release to fire.
- [Y]: Transform the object you lick into an egg.

CHARACTERISTICS
- You lick the closest object aligned with the crosshair.
- Wait for the end of the lick animation to know if the long range lick worked.
- If you lick an object at short range, the long range lick will be cancelled.
- You can't throw the object you lick before your tongue is completely retracted.
- You will throw the item you lick.
- If you are not licking anything you will throw the first item in your inventory.
- If you have no item in your inventory you will throw a small rock.
- Small rocks dissapear 10s after being shot.
- The item will fly in the direction of the crosshair.
- The longer you charge, the faster the item will fly.
- When you reach the max possible charge, the item start to glow.
- You can collect up to 6 eggs.
- Eggs will follow you.
- If you have no item in your inventory you will throw an egg.
- Eggs explode on contact.

EASTER EGGS
- You can use the long range lick to catch moving vehicles easily.
- If the item you throw is fast enough, it will trigger explosive objects on impact.
- How to become Yoshi:Use a mutator of the original game related to Yoshi ;)

KNOWN BUGS
- Throwing living creatures from your inventory can fail partially.
- Will NOT work fine if combined with the following mods: Uncle Goat.

DEV NOTES

Originally posted by Update 1 (28/03/2015):

- Added Yoshi easter egg(s).

Originally posted by Update 2 (08/05/2015):

- Fixed compatibility with GoatZ.

Originally posted by Update 3 (19/06/2015):

- Fixed compatibility with v1.3.3.

Originally posted by Update 4 (14/11/2015):

- Fixed compatibility with GoatBread.

Originally posted by Update 5 (08/02/2016):

- Fixed compatibility with Payday.
- Fixed ability to long range lick ragdolls? (I did nothing but it looks like it's working now...)
- Fixed most bugs related to the inventory.
- Added crosshair.
- Long range lick and slingshot throw are now based on the crosshair position.
- Reworked throw force caclulation.

Originally posted by Update 6 (11/06/2016):

- Fixed compatibility with Waste of Space.

Originally posted by Update 7 (01/07/2018):

- Fixed broken crosshair on the Waste of Space map.

Originally posted by About this mod:

This mod is the combination of two huge requests that have been made a thousand times: make it possible to lick objects at a distance, and make it possible to throw objects where you look.
For the long range lick, I only had to mess around with the "tongue" properties. In the code, the tongue is represented by a an "object grabber" and it's possible to change its elasticity. So I gave it almost no strength at all when you press the lick key so that your tongue can extend to an item even if it's far away. And then I made the grabber stronger and stronger when you release the key so that the item will come back to you.
Then I made the throwing part: basically the same mechanism as the Telekinetic Goat, but I had to detect where the camera is looking instead of detecting where the goat is looking. The charging system is some basic maths to make the object fly faster depending on how long you charged the shot. Taking the first item in the inventory caused some problem as there is only a function to remove the item in the slot N of the inventory... Which means you remove an item but you don't know what item you actually removed >_< In order to grab this item and let the player throw it, I had to make a stupid detection of all the items around the goat to find the one that poped out of the inventory...