[zazo]

zazo, on 24 January 2013 - 08:36 AM, said:

the command startlevel works well, but my probleme is to jump to the next level in the current episode... is a command to detect the number of the current level and add 1 to it in the startlevel ... im very bad, i dont find this in the wiki

I found myself:

gamevar currentlevel 0 1
gamevar currentvolume 0 1

setvarvar currentlevel LEVEL
setvarvar currentvolume VOLUME
addvar currentlevel 1
startlevel currentlevel currentvolume

[Hendricks266]

zazo, on 24 January 2013 - 06:18 AM, said:

little question: a way to spawn blue, red and yellow accesscards ? the command spawn ACCESSCARD spawns only the blue card ...

// blue
spawn ACCESSCARD

// red
espawn ACCESSCARD
setactor[RETURN].pal 21

// yellow
espawn ACCESSCARD
setactor[RETURN].pal 23

[zazo]

Hendricks266, on 24 January 2013 - 10:00 AM, said:

// blue
spawn ACCESSCARD

// red
espawn ACCESSCARD
setactor[RETURN].pal 21

// yellow
espawn ACCESSCARD
setactor[RETURN].pal 23

thanks !

Arg ! eduke crash with the message "too many sprite spawned" !!
a way to avoid this by the code??

[Hendricks266]

Post the complete context of the code you are using. It is likely the code is continuously running, spawning the cards over and over. A structure change is required to fix it.

[zazo]

is there a version of editart that allows you to edit tiles numbers after 14: tiles022.art, tiles030.art, tiles050.art ... and next

[Alan]

Yeah, you have to get the version with Atomic Edition to go up to 20 I believe, and to go beyond that you need the version bundled with EDuke 2.1 IIRC.

[zazo]

Alan, on 05 February 2013 - 05:16 AM, said:

Yeah, you have to get the version with Atomic Edition to go up to 20 I believe, and to go beyond that you need the version bundled with EDuke 2.1 IIRC.

i owned

[zazo]

zazo, on 05 February 2013 - 05:27 AM, said:

i owned

thanks a lot ! although it works in dosbox, editart remains the best art editor

[zazo]

is there a place to download 3d models for eduke?
in particular: vegetation, trees ... ?

[Diaz]

Hey guys, just a quickie, cause I don't remember - was it possible to change the shrinker's hard-coded polymer light colour? If not I will just disable it, but for the weapon I currently have replacing the shrinker, it would be cool if it could glow blue instead of green.

[Plagman]

I think you'd need to disable it and add your own SE that tracks the player.

[Diaz]

Oh, nevermind, I just did it. WEAPON6_FLASHCOLOR was the var I wanted. Sorry and thanks

[Diaz]

I'm getting a strange problem with hitradius, that has probably been there for ages, even before EDuke.

I have a weapon that creates a quite big hitradius of 8000 60 100 400 550.

If an enemy with, let's say, 100 health points hasn't been "activated" (i.e. the player has not seen it) and this hitradius hits near it, it won't be killed, but damaged (sometimes not by much) instead; if the projectile hits him dead-on it will be killed. If the enemy is "activated" and is at the same distance as in the first previous case, it will be killed, which is what should happen.

Anyone knows why the hitradius effectiveness seems to decrease if enemies haven't become active?

[The Commander]

I would have suspected this was because the actor was in it's "sleeping" state and therefore wouldn't run it's "ifhitweapon bla bla code" but then that wouldn't quite explain the direct impact killing it.
But I say the problem definitely is in the "sleeping" part as you have said.

[zazo]

how to reactivate the shadows of sprites (spriteshadow) in polymer mod ?

[Danukem]

So here's my problem. For my Attrition mod, I need to define hundreds of levels, so that a large number of maps is available in the game (which are accessed via the startlevel command, not by normal level progression). But this means I have to define more episodes than I want, and those episodes appear in the episode selection screen. Currently I have 'random missions 1', 'random missions 2', and 'random missions 3' which makes the selection screen very messy.

How can I get around this problem?

[Dr. Kylstein]

Trooper Dan, on 13 March 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

So here's my problem. For my Attrition mod, I need to define hundreds of levels, so that a large number of maps is available in the game (which are accessed via the startlevel command, not by normal level progression). But this means I have to define more episodes than I want, and those episodes appear in the episode selection screen. Currently I have 'random missions 1', 'random missions 2', and 'random missions 3' which makes the selection screen very messy.

How can I get around this problem?

Have you considered just skipping the menu?

onevent EVENT_CHANGEMENU
    ifvare RETURN 100 {
        ifvare current_menu 110 {
            //don't know how to tell if the player is in a game in order to 
            //choose between these appropriately.
            setvar RETURN 0 //title menu
            //setvar RETURN 50 //in-game menu
        } else
            setvar RETURN 110
    }
endevent

It doesn't always backtrack to the right menu, and it doesn't define what level you go to (goes to E1L1 from a freshly launched game), but it's a start.

[Danukem]

Dr. Kylstein, on 13 March 2013 - 09:47 PM, said:

Have you considered just skipping the menu?

That's a potentially useful event that I didn't know about, so thanks for the suggestion. However, let's just say for now that I would prefer to have control over the regular episode display. I would like to define levels without having an episode for them, or at least not having the episode show up or be selectable in the episode select screen. Skipping the menu and having a special map immediately get launched with a CON coded menu is a possible solution but it would be far more work than I want to do.

I'm pretty sure there's a simple trick for this -- I seem to remember there being one that has been around since the dawn of time.

EDIT: It looks like I might be able to achieve the desired effect by the simple expedient of defining levels for undefined episodes. For example:

definelevelname 4 0 E1L1.map 01:45 00:53 HOLLYWOOD HOLOCAUST

when episode 4 has not been defined. But I don't know whether the level definition will actually count in that case. EDIT2: It does. So problem solved, I guess.

[Danukem]

OK here's one that should be easy but I don't see a way to do it. How can I make it NOT show the cutscene if the player selects episode 4?

[Fox]

Yeah, Eduke should allow you to define flags for episodes or levels. The options could be "Display cutscene #", "Hide from episode selection" and "Unavaiable (Shareware) episode".

[Helixhorned]

Trooper Dan, on 14 March 2013 - 12:08 AM, said:

OK here's one that should be easy but I don't see a way to do it. How can I make it NOT show the cutscene if the player selects episode 4?

Revision 3566 adds a new LOGO_FLAGS bit, 2048, to prevent that cutscene. I agree with Fox that a more convenient or general interface would be preferable though.

[Danukem]

Helixhorned, on 15 March 2013 - 09:00 AM, said:

Revision 3566 adds a new LOGO_FLAGS bit, 2048, to prevent that cutscene. I agree with Fox that a more convenient or general interface would be preferable though.

Thanks!!

[Danukem]

Just one problem:

I get this error when i try to set LOGO_FLAGS:

Quote

attrition/attcons/ATTHUD.CON:154: error: symbol `LOGO_FLAGS' is not a game variable.

Even though the wiki says it is a gamevar.

[Fox]

I use it with the gamevar command.

[Danukem]

Fox, on 15 March 2013 - 10:42 AM, said:

I use it with the gamevar command.

ah, I see. But there's still an issue. When I use:

gamevar LOGO_FLAGS 2303 1

255+2048 ... It nixes the cutscene but I also get the shareware screens and the tenscreen when quitting the game, which should not happen unless the flags for 256 and 512 are set.

[Helixhorned]

Define it as global gamevar instead, which it is conceptually anyway. LOGO_FLAGS is one of three peculiar gamevars that do not exist predefined from CON, but which are referenced from the game code. By the way, it helps to look at the log for troubleshooting: for me it says

Quote

Line 0, definelevelname: Gv_GetVar(): invalid sprite/player ID -1/-1

The strange line number and wrong command are because Gv_GetVar() isn't called from CON code, so there's nowhere to get this debug information from.

[Danukem]

Helixhorned, on 15 March 2013 - 12:51 PM, said:

Define it as global gamevar instead, which it is conceptually anyway. LOGO_FLAGS is one of three peculiar gamevars that do not exist predefined from CON, but which are referenced from the game code. By the way, it helps to look at the log for troubleshooting: for me it says

The strange line number and wrong command are because Gv_GetVar() isn't called from CON code, so there's nowhere to get this debug information from.

Uh yeah, I should have checked the log, it works now. Since the per-player gamevar declaration was partially working, I didn't consider the possibility that it was invalid.

[Fox]

I suppose that during some instances of the game, such as while checking if it should display the Shareware or Ten screens, the player doesn't exist, not even as a placeholder, so it fails to make the check if LOGO_FLAGS is a per-player variable.

What exactly LOGO_FLAG_STOPANIMSOUNDS does? I tested it, but I couldn't figure it out.

[Helixhorned]

Trooper Dan, on 15 March 2013 - 01:07 PM, said:

Uh yeah, I should have checked the log, it works now. Since the per-player gamevar declaration was partially working, I didn't consider the possibility that it was invalid.

What was probably happening is that the Gv_GetVar() call returned -1, which is often used as a "error condition" marker in C code and that value got interpreted as the logo flags. Of course, -1 has all bits set...
The broader issue though is that the CON parser/interpreter permits a lot of sloppiness on the user side when it should give decent error messages or warn instead. This case is rather benign.

Fox, on 15 March 2013 - 01:32 PM, said:

I suppose that during some instances of the game, such as while checking if it should display the Shareware or Ten screens, the player doesn't exist, not even as a placeholder, so it fails to make the check if LOGO_FLAGS is a per-player variable.

What exactly LOGO_FLAG_STOPANIMSOUNDS does? I tested it, but I couldn't figure it out.

Hendricks266, in r3545, said:

Make stopping of all sounds after completion of LOGO.ANM conditional on the newly introduced (LOGO_FLAGS & LOGO_STOPANIMSOUNDS). Modifies r3217.

[Diaz]

I'm not sure if I have asked this before, but are stayput actors hard-coded to have more strength? One of my stayput enemies (which replaces the PigCop) takes two rockets to die, while the non-stayput version takes just one.