[Danukem]

I have a sprite projectile and I'm just trying to get the cstat to change while it is in flight, randomly reversing the bits for x-flipping and y-flipping to simulate it turning in the air. But the cstat seems to be on hard lock-down. Changing the cstat in EVENT_GAME does nothing. It doesn't matter whether I change it via setactor or setthisprojectile. Most frustrating, even if I add the sprite to the list processed in EVENT_ANIMATESPRITES, changing the corresponding tsprite cstat still does nothing. I don't know what else to try.

[Hendricks266]

Could you post a test case?

[Danukem]

EDIT2: Got it working. I still don't understand why I couldn't get it to work by changing tsprites, but my original solution now works because I fixed a stupid mistake (I didn't realize I had disabled event processing on the sprite in another part of the code).

EDIT: Still a problem, despite a mistake that I found and fixed. Still have no clue.

Here. This uses a tile that is already in the game but not normally as a projectile. I wonder if that could be the issue?

Spoiler

define CARXPLODE 1342
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_WORKSLIKE 34822
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_HITRADIUS 0
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_EXTRA 0
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_XREPEAT 32
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_YREPEAT 32
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_BOUNCES 2
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_VEL 400
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_DROP -256
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_TRAIL SMALLSMOKE
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_SPAWNS -1 // CARXPLODE
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_SXREPEAT 32
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_SYREPEAT 32
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_TXREPEAT 16
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_TYREPEAT 16
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_BSOUND -1 // DUKEBIKE_HIT
defineprojectile CARXPLODE PROJ_RANGE 32


// the code below should make it randomly change cstat every other tic
// i didn't bother including the ANIMATESPRITES code
gamevar temp 0 0
onevent EVENT_GAME
ife sprite[].statnum 4 ifactor CARXPLODE
ifvarand player[].player_par 1
{
  set temp 128
  ifrnd 128 orvar temp 4
  ifrnd 128 orvar temp 8
  seta[].cstat temp
  setthisprojectile[].cstat temp
}
endevent

I don't want to upload the entire project in its current state just for this problem, but you could see the projectile easily enough by using the code above and then making it shoot from something (even ifhitspace shoot CARXPLODE in the APLAYER actor might be sufficient).

[Hendricks266]

Trooper Dan, on 28 May 2016 - 01:26 PM, said:

I still don't understand why I couldn't get it to work by changing tsprites, but my original solution now works because I fixed a stupid mistake (I didn't realize I had disabled event processing on the sprite in another part of the code).

Did you forget to add 16 to the sprite's mdflags?

Trooper Dan, on 28 May 2016 - 01:26 PM, said:

I don't want to upload the entire project in its current state just for this problem,

Me neither. A test case usually implies an individual CON module that exhibits the problem and nothing more, unless the problem can only be reproduced as part of a whole.