[Mblackwell]

James, on 29 October 2012 - 01:15 AM, said:

Hey another question (might as well ask) what's the quickest way to get the x and y co-ordinates of a sector's centre? I'm working on some code that goes through at level start up and places ambient sounds on appropriate textures; doing it for walls is pretty easy but I'm a bit stumped for sectors that won't need a billion lines of code.

state scanwalls
   getsector[NUMSECTORS1].wallptr FIRSTWALL // get the firstwall of the sector
   getsector[NUMSECTORS1].wallnum NUMWALLS1 // get the number of walls in the sector

   setvar MX 0
   setvar MY 0
   setvarvar WALLPOINT FIRSTWALL 

   setvar COUNTWALLS 0

    whilevarvarn COUNTWALLS NUMWALLS1
    {
       getwall[WALLPOINT].x WALLX1
       getwall[WALLPOINT].y WALLY1
       divvarvar WALLX1 NUMWALLS1  // divide it first because the numbers might overflow 
       divvarvar WALLY1 NUMWALLS1
       addvarvar MX WALLX1  // add it all up
       addvarvar MY WALLY1
       getwall[WALLPOINT].point2 WALLPOINT // next wall

       addvar COUNTWALLS 1
           // this will kill EVENT_GAME until code execution is finished
       break
     }



ends

This is a hack I released as part of the "materials" code (which scanned sectors/walls and allowed you to mess with certain textures or spawn things). Except for odd shaped sectors that should be pretty close.

[Marcos]

Let me ask something... Is it possible to cancel the "F6" key, The "Quick save"?

[Darkus]

I have a little problem: I wanted to create a flashlight effect (a moving spotlight in polymer), if the actor that is supposed to cast light is moving, but the light that is displayed don't move (or the light does not appear)...
I tried to search on this forum and found some things, but they don't seem to work.
I don't know if that's me who doing something wrong, or it's a bug...

[Jblade]

Mblackwell, on 29 October 2012 - 06:39 AM, said:

*snip*
This is a hack I released as part of the "materials" code (which scanned sectors/walls and allowed you to mess with certain textures or spawn things). Except for odd shaped sectors that should be pretty close.

Much appreciated, I'll give this a try tommorow morning!

[Cage]

EmericaSkater & zazo: Thank you both! I understand zazo's method better, but both seem to work on a similar principle.

Is there a way to disable "visibility-flashing" effect in sectors with specified palette? I might be using 8-bit fog effects, and the fog withdraws/lessen when you shoot or when explosions go off, and it looks ridiculous!

I could just disable the flashing bit in all weapons, and do a manual check of current weapons kickback_pic and what palette is the player's current sector(And, when conditions are met, just use the FLASH command), but the explosions (actor EXPLOSION2) have hardcoded flashing behavior - I'd rather save the fuss of replacing it with a new actor (especially since it's spawned by some hardcoded ones like SEENINE/C9 etc.)

Also - how to make a Mapster32 script which would change the shade and palette of ALL sectors, walls and sprites to specific values? I'd like to have a global fog in the map and that sure would ease/speed things up. One that globally edits parallax ceilings and floors (tile #, shade and pal) would be very handy too. Mapster scripts are a totally new feature to me and I don't know where to start

[Diaz]

Cage, for the palette thing, you have the ' + P key combo. Select the whole map in 2D, then press those keys in 3D. It would be great to have a keyboard shortcut to do the same for shade, specially for setting a global ambient shade for maps that use Polymer lights only

You could also select the whole map, then press - or + until everything has min/max shade; then use + or - again to have everything shaded equally from there. I haven't tested this, though.

[Mark]

There is a command for setting all sectors to one shade. I don't recall what it is.

[Micky C]

Just highlight the sectors then go ' + s in 3D mode to change the shade of all the walls, ceilings, floors and sprites.

[Diaz]

^ I've tried that and it just changes the shade of the object under the mouse cursor.

[Micky C]

Hmm you're right...

There is a global shade divide function in the special functions menu but I don't know how useful that is. If there isn't a key combination for this, there really should be one made. IMO the ' + s should be made to work on all highlighted sectors since I'll bet it does the same thing regardless of whether or not anything is highlighted.

[Diaz]

Perhaps. Anyways, what I said above works. Just highlight everything, press - several times until everything is pitch black, then adjust from there.

[zazo]

I would like to create a projectile that works like a rpg and hitting the enemy as a arrow, not a hitradius style: what is the PROJ_WORKSLIKE value ??

[Cage]

Set the projectile's hitradius to zero and the workslike value should contain RPG flag ( 2 ) and RPG_IMPACT flag (32768), others to taste

Some help:
http://wiki.eduke32....efineprojectile
http://wiki.eduke32....FLAG_RPG_IMPACT

[zazo]

Cage, on 30 October 2012 - 10:22 AM, said:

Set the projectile's hitradius to zero and the workslike value should contain RPG flag ( 2 ) and RPG_IMPACT flag (32768), others to taste

Some help:
http://wiki.eduke32....efineprojectile
http://wiki.eduke32....FLAG_RPG_IMPACT

PROJ_WORKSLIKE 32770

[blizzart]

Hi,
I´ve just tried to use this example of code from EDuke Wiki in my mod: http://wiki.eduke32....reen_Background

But everytime I try to run the game I get several errors depending on that code. I´ve attached the log file, the GAME.CON (the new code is at the bottom of the file) and the EDUKE.CON (using Darkus` Flashlight code and the Hub map code by Trooper Dan, which I commented out for testing).

 eduke32.log (928bytes)
Number of downloads: 922
 EDUKE.CON (7.25K)
Number of downloads: 989
 GAME.CON (147.71K)
Number of downloads: 1034

[LeoD]

blizzart, on 01 November 2012 - 04:23 AM, said:

Hi,
I´ve just tried to use this example of code from EDuke Wiki in my mod: http://wiki.eduke32....reen_Background

But everytime I try to run the game I get several errors depending on that code.

Remove the quotes from 3281.

[blizzart]

LeoD, on 01 November 2012 - 05:50 AM, said:

Remove the quotes from 3281.

Thanks LeoD,
I totally missed that I had to delete the quotes.
But I have two additional questions to this code:
Is it possible to give different maps in an episode different loading screens, too?
And can I change the loading bar? I want to use another tile for it and maybe get rid of that xxxx of xxxx textures quote.

[Fox]

You can try checking the value of ifvare LEVEL to see if it works.

[zazo]

possible to remove this ugly progress bar on the loading screen ???

[Fox]

It seems it is, check out this link:

http://wiki.eduke32....ENT_GETLOADTILE

[blizzart]

I´m getting more into coding by reading more and more over the last days, but I have a question:

Is ist necessary to name gamevars TEMP or can I replace that with whatever I want (I´m just going through the Tutorial/Examole section on the wiki)?

Here is what I mean:

gamevar TEMP 0 0

and what I want to do

gamevar WHATIWANT 0 0

[XThX2]

blizzart, on 04 November 2012 - 04:29 AM, said:

I´m getting more into coding by reading more and more over the last days, but I have a question:

Is ist necessary to name gamevars TEMP or can I replace that with whatever I want (I´m just going through the Tutorial/Examole section on the wiki)?

Here is what I mean:

gamevar TEMP 0 0

and what I want to do

gamevar WHATIWANT 0 0

You can and you SHOULD. Name them to whatever you want, they just hold the value you want. Preferably, name them to something easy to remember/distinguish.

[Micky C]

I mentioned this about 6 months ago but I want to learn how to do con code (and by extension, mapster script), and back then I had absolutely no idea how code worked, except DEF files. Since then, I've taken a type of intro to programming course which mostly focused on Fortran, with a week of VBA, which was similar, and I've done very well in that course which is a good sign (good maths skills + good general language skills helped a lot).

However I've heard that con is very similar to C or something that, which is apparently very different to the two languages I mentioned above. I looked up the con guide on the wiki and while I can make a bit of sense out of it at a quick glance, it seems to assume that we already know some stuff such as where to put what code and how to get it to loop or whatever.

Basically, given what I know so far, what's the next step to getting a grasp of con, should I read up on a C guide for beginners to become more familiar with the syntax and structure?

[CruX]

^^ Just jump into it. I learned what I know by just messing around and I've got absolutely no knowledge of programming (and computers in general). Start out with simpler stuff like display code, and move up from there.

[Micky C]

Hehe, I've already made it so that the player's health is set to 50 and it quickly regenerates whenever he takes damage. Ultimately I plan to make a little "what if Duke was done today" mod which will parody DNF's gameplay, but there's a lot of stuff to figure out between now and then.. luckily I have some big holidays in about 2 weeks.

[Reaper_Man]

Regenerating health is awesome because hunting for health packs (or, worse, picking them up when you're barely missing health) fucking sucks.

[Mblackwell]

That's why I prefer inventory based health packs/medkits. A good compromise though is thresholds of health.

[OpenMaw]

Reaper_Man, on 05 November 2012 - 01:11 PM, said:

Regenerating health is awesome because hunting for health packs (or, worse, picking them up when you're barely missing health) fucking sucks.

NOPE.AVI

[Mblackwell]

You definitely won that debate.

Spoiler

/sarcasm

[OpenMaw]

Mblackwell, on 05 November 2012 - 08:35 PM, said:

You definitely won that debate.

Spoiler

/sarcasm

I would hope that it was obviously sarcasm to begin with. It would be akin to telling someone they're wrong for not liking pizza.

They're insane, but it's all a matter of taste, and or opinion.

Not that i'm saying Reaper Man is insane. Or that he hates pizza.

Spoiler

/douchebaggery