[Dr. Kylstein]

Ilovefoxes, on Jul 22 2009, 06:17 AM, said:

2) Does the Shrinker HUD weapon glowing is stored somewhere? I mean, the crystal HUD tile seems to change it's shading. Is it stored somewhere in a structure member?

Maybe this?

[Fox]

Dr. Kylstein, on Jul 22 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

Maybe this?

That may work. I will check the values later.

[Cage]

How to scale hardcoded sprites? I've tried sizeat, setting actor's.x/yrepeat, both in actor code and using event (eventloadactor IIRC) and it still doesn't work properly - the sprite sizes when it's seen, not immediately at startup

[XThX2]

Strange, this code actually works for hardcoded sprites for me;

eventloadactor SHOTGUNAMMO
setactor[THISACTOR].xrepeat 50
setactor[THISACTOR].yrepeat 50
enda

actor SHOTGUNAMMO
   fall
   sizeat 50 50
   .
   .
   .

Well, you may try changing the actor to an user actor if this doesn't work. This is the usual method I use for resizing my enemies. (Sizeat for when the actor spawns, eventloadactor for mapload)

[Fox]

Cage, on Jul 23 2009, 08:14 AM, said:

How to scale hardcoded sprites? I've tried sizeat, setting actor's.x/yrepeat, both in actor code and using event (eventloadactor IIRC) and it still doesn't work properly - the sprite sizes when it's seen, not immediately at startup

Do it at EVENT_GAME.

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onevent EVENT_GAME
ifactor SHOTGUNAMMO
sizeat 50 50
endevent

[MIKE SIMS]

can someone help me with the nightvision rotate sprite effect? I've tried several different coordinates and codes and none seem to display sprites on screen when night vision is in use..

[Jimmy]

Use about 150 for both the X and Y dimensions, this should bring it somewhere visible on the screen.

[MIKE SIMS]

ALSO, I want to make the muzzle flashes for the weapons transparent (just the regular duke weapons for now), I know it's probably simple but I think this would be a quicker way to figure it out

[MIKE SIMS]

Captain Awesome, on Jul 26 2009, 06:17 PM, said:

Use about 150 for both the X and Y dimensions, this should bring it somewhere visible on the screen.

for some reason I got it to appear in the top left corner with x0 y0 dimensions... but when I try other dimensions it wont appear... I basically want to get it exactly where the crosshair is.

[Chip]

Is there any way to increase the speed of a model animation through cons?
I would like my character's movement animation to speed up when he moves faster but I don't want to have to result into defining the same animation loads of times accross many tile spaces.

[XThX2]

HTG_T might be of use to you. Find the number that represents the animation speed.

[Chip]

Hmm, number 3 seems to refer to "animspeed" but I'm thinking that only referes to its sprite animation speed (which has no effect on a 3D model animation speed) But I'll try it out later today.

[Fox]

Hendricks266 said:

1) Odd, it worked for me.

Phew, I have a problem with dynamicremap.

I try it the simpliest way. I put the dynamicremap command on top of DEFS, and them define SMALLSMOKE 1660. And them it doesn't work properly, here is a screenshot:



As you can see, the SMALLSMOKE has no sizeat definition (and uses 1 by default) - It's not the same as not using dynamicremap, but it is not as functional as it was before (when used to add dynamicremap command before every define).

I have attached a file with the DEFS I am using, anyone else is having this problem?

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[Danukem]

Useractors spawn at size 1 1, which is a good thing, whereas a lot of the original actors (like SMALLSMOKE) have specific hardcoded sizes depending on the situation. When tiles are moved with dynamicremap they lose some of their hardcoded properties. I remember having that problem once before with it, and I have never tried to use the command since.

[Fox]

Yeah, but I want to use it. The point is that I know it is probably an error because early syntax doesn't used to do that.

[Chip]

I've just seen "modvar" on the wiki but not too sure exactly what it does.

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modvar <gamevar> <value>
This command sets <gamevar> to <gamevar>%<value>. It's a math operation which calculates a modulus(aka reminder) of <gamevar>/<value>.

Is this some kind of "percentage" relating var - working out a percentage of a number?

[Ryan Cordell]

No, % is the symbol (in programming) for the MOD operator, that is, it returns only the remainder of the number. IE:

3%2 = 1
5%3 = 2 (*shrug*)
2%2 = 0

3%10 = 3
2%10 = 2

and such stuff. At least, that's what I remember from my programming classes. It's a bit foggy now though.
If I understand right, it simply performs that mathematical operation of the gamevar divided/modded by value.

[Chip]

Aww, I was hoping it would be a percentage work out.
Thanks for the info.

[XThX2]

I need help at making a projectile (actor based) going where the player looks. (Up/down wise) It has to do with the zvel of the actor I'm sure, that's where I get stuck. I couldn't make it use player's up/down angle to change it's zvel. (Used horiz)

		getplayer[THISACTOR].horiz horiz
		subvar horiz 100
		mulvar horiz -2048
		setactor[THISACTOR].z horiz

I used this because I read it hitscans where player looks , thought it could be useful. But it makes actors end up looking straight at the ground when I try to look down very slowly and vice versa.

Alternatively, if there's a way to make a projectile go through actors without making it an actor (I tried event_game but it didn't work, kept working like a projectile) I could use it too.

[Hendricks266]

I believe you need to set the zvel, not the z of the actor. You may also want to use zshoot.

[MIKE SIMS]

any tips for making a "health bar" HUD rather than the numeric health? or how to get the ammo on screen like I've seen in some mods (the shells)

[XThX2]

Well I used a hud like that. In my case, I had small gemstones lined up for both health and armor, and a pointer above the first gemstone.

Basically, I checked players health and placed them according to it, they won't display if their condition is false. You can, say put a health block per 5 health the player has. (Use DISPLAYREST event)

[Dr. Kylstein]

MIKE SIMS, on Jul 31 2009, 10:47 PM, said:

any tips for making a "health bar" HUD rather than the numeric health? or how to get the ammo on screen like I've seen in some mods (the shells)

How to make a health bar

[Danukem]

Dr. Kylstein, on Aug 1 2009, 08:59 AM, said:

Assuming HEALTHBAR is the name of a 2x16 tile:

gamevar temp 0 2
gamevar xvar 0 2
onevent EVENT_DISPLAYREST {
   setvar xvar 0 // set starting x coordinate
   getactor[THISACTOR].extra temp // get the player's health
   whilevarn temp 0 { // loop for each hitpoint
	   rotatesprite xvar 184 65536 0 HEALTHBAR 0 0 16 0 0 xdim ydim // draws HEALTHBAR at (xvar,184)
	   addvar xvar 2 // move to the right
	   subvar temp 1 // next hitpoint
   }
} endevent

Edit: this would be a rather large bar, however. You could "divvar temp <number>" before starting the loop to make each bar worth more points.
I might add a more thought-out version to the wiki later.

Yep, that's pretty much what I've been doing for bars in my mods (like the air left bar in DP that appears when you go under water without scuba gear, etc)

[MIKE SIMS]

Dr. Kylstein, on Aug 1 2009, 08:59 AM, said:

How to make a health bar

i love you (no homo) So I'm assuming a um.. Kill Counter would essentially work the same?

[Dr. Kylstein]

MIKE SIMS, on Aug 2 2009, 07:09 PM, said:

i love you (no homo) So I'm assuming a um.. Kill Counter would essentially work the same?

Any number you want. Just replace "getactor[THISACTOR].extra temp" and adjust BARSCALE as needed.

[Fox]

I am trying to make an projectile (RPG) hitscan what object it will hit. Although I am unable to discovery which value I should put as vertical angle.

As I could figure, to make an RPG have the same horizontal and vertical speed (an angle of 45º) the .zvel should be 16x the xvel. But this is as far as I could get... any help, please?

[Danukem]

Ilovefoxes, on Aug 4 2009, 10:42 AM, said:

I am trying to make an projectile (RPG) hitscan what object it will hit. Although I am unable to discovery which value I should put as vertical angle.

As I could figure, to make an RPG have the same horizontal and vertical speed (an angle of 45º) the .zvel should be 16x the xvel. But this is as far as I could get... any help, please?

Take the projectile's zvel and shift it 14 to the left for the hitscan parameter. I discovered that a few years ago and it seems to work fine.

[Fox]

Hah, thanks! It's quite easy, I see... =P And I was trying to understand how to make an arctan2.

[Fox]

I am trying to make an heat-seeking weapon... although every time I shoot two times and the first shot kill the enemy, the sprites is deleted and them the second shot has an invalid sprite ID. How does can I check if an ID actually exists as specific sprite?