[LAW]

As we know in Duke Nukem, RESPAWN "passes" its pal to the spawned sprite. The same thing happened in the original Redneck.

I have an enemy, which does a few things upon dying when spritepal 30, 31 or 32. It works, when that enemy is put on the ground in Build. However, when it is spawned by a RESPAWN it does nothing and judging from its spritepal dependant behaviour it has pal 0. I've come with an idea to put the foe on the conveyor belt, where it could be moved into the silent teleport. But somehow it doesn't bother the conveyor belt's motion and it doesn't fall into the teleport's chasm even though it has 'fall' command in its code. Changing 'actor' to useractor enemy' also doesn't change things.

I've tried to code it out in EVENT_GAME. Maybe my logic is wrong, but I will show, what was done:

gamevar OWNER 0 0
gamevar PAL 0 0

ifactor MAMA
getactor[THISACTOR].owner OWNER
ifvare OWNER RESPAWN getactor[OWNER].pal PAL
setactor[THISACTOR].pal PAL //OR ifvare PAL 30 spritepal 30

It doesn't work. Is there a workaround to have that enemy appear on demand and do the special actions?

[XThX2]

I think there was a thing with Duke's enemies that they had to "see" you first for their code to run, or something like that. IIRC fall is one of those. (I can remember the Enforcer's on episode 2 falling after they see you, in the first level.)

[Daedolon]

It's not true only for enemies, but any actor, including all the FEM actors.

[LAW]

But I have put a NEWBEAST clone in my Fury161r map and it was transported by a conveyor belt even though it hasn't seen the player...

[Fox]

LAW, on 08 June 2013 - 05:20 AM, said:

As we know in Duke Nukem, RESPAWN "passes" its pal to the spawned sprite.

Not really, in the bosses case it has been hard-coded to work that way. Surprisingly the Assault Tropper has been forgotten, as a result it fails to respawn Captains instead.

[LAW]

So do you have any idea what I could do, except of just putting the enemy on the ground?

[Fox]

LAW, on 08 June 2013 - 05:20 AM, said:

I've tried to code it out in EVENT_GAME. Maybe my logic is wrong, but I will show, what was done:

gamevar OWNER 0 0
gamevar PAL 0 0

ifactor MAMA
getactor[THISACTOR].owner OWNER
ifvare OWNER RESPAWN getactor[OWNER].pal PAL
setactor[THISACTOR].pal PAL //OR ifvare PAL 30 spritepal 30

It doesn't work. Is there a workaround to have that enemy appear on demand and do the special actions?

There are some problems with your code. First of all the .owner may be reseted after EVENT_EGS, so you should save it to a gamevar before.

Also shouldn't the code after "ifactor MAMA" be inside of brackets? Without it the code would attempt to change the pal of all sprites, including the RESPAWN ones.

LAW, on 08 June 2013 - 08:00 AM, said:

So do you have any idea what I could do, except of just putting the enemy on the ground?

I think it doesn't apply here since EVENT_GAME runs regardless of the actor being seen yet by player or not.

[LAW]

Fox, on 08 June 2013 - 08:02 AM, said:

EVENT_EGS

Uh, oh I have forgot about this event - it has soooo unimpressive name

So now everything works like a charm. Thanks Fox. I am a foxy gentleman and I like foxes

[Fox]

EGS = Enter Game Spawn/State?

[zazo]

I wonder if there are some improvements on the water effects for eduke: water distortion, water reflection, waves... ? something more realistic

[Plagman]

The current mirror code can combine with parallax mapping to do an OK water effect, but it's definitely not ideal; having a real water effect is something I'm planning to do at some point.

[Fox]

Won't that work only with ROR?

[Hendricks266]

Not necessarily, you would just need to set up a view portal with Polymer.

[zazo]

very great,
view portal ? miror code for floor ???
have some code or mapster keys for this ??

[Hendricks266]

There is currently no way to give Polymer the information. Same with the screenshot of E1L1 windows reflecting.

[zazo]

Hendricks266, on 17 June 2013 - 05:53 PM, said:

Not necessarily, you would just need to set up a view portal with Polymer.

how set up a view portal in mapster?

[Hendricks266]

Hendricks266, on 18 June 2013 - 08:27 AM, said:

There is currently no way to give Polymer the information. Same with the screenshot of E1L1 windows reflecting.

[zazo]

the defineprojectile only shot projectiles horizontally ? ... Possible to set a positive angle to shoot projectiles as an arc ?

[Fox]

That would require you to use zshoot.

[Jblade]

Anyway to change the speed of a rotating sector with code? I've tried modifying the GPSPEED sprite but not even event_pregame lets me do anything to it (I set up a 'ifactor GPSPEED addlog' to test and nothing shows up)

[Helixhorned]

James, on 21 June 2013 - 04:32 AM, said:

Anyway to change the speed of a rotating sector with code? I've tried modifying the GPSPEED sprite but not even event_pregame lets me do anything to it (I set up a 'ifactor GPSPEED addlog' to test and nothing shows up)

It depends on whether you only want to set up a different static rotation speed, or if you want to modify it on the fly.
In the first case, you can change the GPSPEED's lotag in EVENT_LOADACTOR or an eventloadactor block.
After premap, where these are run from, all GPSPEED sprites are deleted and their former lotags are assigned to their containing sector's .extra member. Thus, for the dynamic speed control, you could change that one in intervals. The GPSPEED lotag -> sector extra backup is somewhat of an implementation detail, but it's unlikely to ever change.
Also note that for SE0/SE1 constructions, the GPSPEEDs are placed in the SE1 (actual rotating sector) instead of the matching SE0 (pivot). Thus, you must be prepared to change all speeds belonging to one pivot to the same value.

[Jblade]

That's just the information I was looking for, much appreciated! With that information, it should be possible to somewhat mimmic Blood's ability to have doors or elevators start off slow, speed up, and then slow down again just before stopping. I'll have to get my hands dirty and try it out.

[RichardStorm]

How can i play musics, making they don't reset when loading a game ?

For example i start a boss fight and another track starts, using strattrack #... i save... when i load i get back to normal level music... how to avoid this ?

[Hendricks266]

I wrote some CON code for zykov eddy which will maintain the currently playing track, but with the downside that it will restart after every load, so I don't know how much use it will be to you. It's been on my to-do list for some time for EDuke32 to save the currently playing music in the savegame and restore it automatically, not restarting the track if it is the same. Currently it just checks the current level and episode number of the map.

[Mikko]

RichardStorm, on 29 June 2013 - 03:21 AM, said:

For example i start a boss fight and another track starts, using strattrack #... i save... when i load i get back to normal level music... how to avoid this ?

Well you should use starttrackvar instead of starttrack, and then set the currently playing track as a variable. Then to avoid the problem of reverting to the "normal level music" upon loading, you should put a check in EVENT_LOADGAME event.

[Hendricks266]

Here is how I did it for Sonic 3D:

gamevar musicVolume -1 1
gamevar musicLevel -1 1

state reset_music
    setvar musicVolume -1
    setvar musicLevel -1
ends

state trigger_music
    ifvarg musicVolume -1
        setuserdef[THISACTOR].volume_number musicVolume 

    ifvarg musicLevel -1
        starttrackvar musicLevel

    // always reset to the proper value
    setuserdef[THISACTOR].volume_number VOLUME
ends

onevent EVENT_RESETPLAYER
    state reset_music
endevent

onevent EVENT_ENTERLEVEL
    state reset_music
endevent

onevent EVENT_LOADGAME
    state trigger_music
endevent

To change a track, you would set the variables and then call state trigger_music. I used per-player variables for Sonic 3D so that something like an invincibility jingle would only affect the player with it.

[Mark]

I created an actor ( a new model ). It's default action is the animation "idle". When it is shot by the player the model runs it's other animation ( from an action command ) one time and plays a sound. But when shot at a second time or more, only the sound plays and not the animation action command. So after more research I found a "resetactioncount" command and put that in the code to hopefully reset things back to default making it ready to fully run again with the next bullet hit. No luck.

I know I should be posting the code but I don't want to give away some info contained in it and spoil the suprise for future players. I'm basically asking if I'm on the wrong trail trying to use the "resetactioncount" instead of something else.

I also figured out how to have something spawn from the actor after the hit but I have a slight problem. The item spawns at the same location as the actor that spawned it. Because of mapping issues I need the spawned item to be at a slightly higher elevation to clear an obstacle. How would I go about doing that?

[Jblade]

For the first part, try 'strength 1' in the part where you set what happens after it gets shot.

For the second part, do you need it to just spawn higher up, or away from the model altogether? If it's the former, try:

getactor[THISACTOR].z TEMP
espawn WHATYOUWANTTOSPAWN
subvar TEMP 4096 // This will move it up a bit
setactor[RETURN].z TEMP

[Mark]

Thanks. I will try those out shortly.

[Mark]

No luck on either one. Second one gave me some error message about TEMP. I suppose I'm S.O.L. without posting the code. Thanks for trying.