[Helixhorned]

Fixed in my local tree. Hendricks, are you prepared to merge minor changes in menus.c or would that throw off your work significantly?

[Jblade]

I was going to suggest moving those sounds and replacing them with blank files...but then I realised you might as well just move the new sounds into the existing difficulty sound slots and move those ones elsewhere.

edit: efb, looks like Helix already has something planned heh heh.

[Danukem]

James, on 19 April 2014 - 12:09 AM, said:

There's a new con command called screensound which plays a sound unconditionally, that might do the trick.

Thanks, but I tried that and it doesn't work in this case.

Fox, on 19 April 2014 - 12:37 AM, said:

Also you should use "ifvare THISACTOR -1" instead of checking the game mode.

I just tried that but it doesn't work. Checking game mode does what I want.

Helixhorned, on 19 April 2014 - 03:19 AM, said:

Won't work with how things are coded now, unfortunately. When the menu starts a difficulty sound, it remembers the hard-coded sound number and displays the menu for as long as that one is playing:

By the way, in the "damn I'm good" line, you have a trailing "else":

Fixed.

Helixhorned, on 19 April 2014 - 03:59 AM, said:

Fixed in my local tree. Hendricks, are you prepared to merge minor changes in menus.c or would that throw off your work significantly?

Thanks, I'll just wait for the fix to be committed then.

[Hendricks266]

Helixhorned, on 19 April 2014 - 03:59 AM, said:

Fixed in my local tree. Hendricks, are you prepared to merge minor changes in menus.c or would that throw off your work significantly?

I've been doing 99% of the work in a separate file, so commit away.

[Helixhorned]

Committed the fix to r4449.

Trooper Dan, on 19 April 2014 - 06:53 AM, said:

Fox, on 19 April 2014 - 12:37 AM, said:

Also you should use "ifvare THISACTOR -1" instead of checking the game mode.

I just tried that but it doesn't work. Checking game mode does what I want.

Yes, checking the game mode is preferable. The current actor may be invalid (i.e. -1) from other contexts, too.

[Fox]

But getplayer is an invalid operation during the main menu...

[Helixhorned]

Fox, on 19 April 2014 - 04:28 PM, said:

But getplayer is an invalid operation during the main menu...

Who says that? Acutally, I kind of agree that it ought to be invalid in a certain sense, but in point of fact, it's not. What matters is that all events in question are entered with screenpeek as the "current player" (the one that getplayer[THISACTOR] refers to). This is the case for both instances of EVENT_SOUND (from S_PlaySound() and S_PlaySound3D()), as well as DISPLAYMENU and DISPLAYMENUREST, even though the latter two aren't even active when the difficulty sound is requested to be played and thus aren't relevant to the question.

One could object to various circumstances. First, why is player[].gm a player member when it's more like a property of a running EDuke32 instance than that of a player? Also, what meaning is there to EVENT_SOUND always getting screenpeek as the current player? Personally, I consider that event local -- game state must not depend on it being executed. Anyhow, what matters in a single-player setting that the event receives a valid player index at all -- player[0] is guaranteed to be valid even when no game is running, though it may not make sense to examine the values of most of its members then.

[Fox]

I suppose .gm is a player structure because the menu being displayed or sending a message varies for each player in multiplayer.

Helixhorned, on 22 April 2014 - 02:08 PM, said:

player[0] is guaranteed to be valid even when no game is running, though it may not make sense to examine the values of most of its members then.

I always assumed that no player existed in such events since per-player variables doesn't work well. I dunno about player structures.

[Jenz/Amaka]

I want to add more different sounds when enemies spot the player. I tried to find for example "PRED_RECOG" in GAME.con, but it ain't there. Where can I find "PRED_RECOG" or what do I have to type to add my own modifications?

[Hendricks266]

It's hardcoded. This is crappy but should have the same effect.

// top level
gamevar temp 0 0
gamevar temp2 0 0
gamevar flag 0 2

// in your main actor code:

    getactor[THISACTOR].httimetosleep temp
    getactor[THISACTOR].statnum temp2
    ifvare temp 0 ifvare temp2 1 // STAT_ACTOR
    {
        ifvare flag 0
        {
            sound PRED_RECOG
            setvar flag 1
        }
    }

[Fox]

Use EVENT_SOUND, something like this (for 3 sounds):

gamevar TEMP 0 0

onevent EVENT_SOUND
  ifvare RETURN PRED_RECOG
  {
    displayrandvar TEMP 2
    ifvare TEMP 1
      setvar RETURN PRED_RECOG2
    ifvare TEMP 2
      setvar RETURN PRED_RECOG3
  }
endevent

[Jenz/Amaka]

It worked!
Thank you!

[Danukem]

@MrGlasses: you are referring to Fox's solution, right? I don't see how the code from Hendricks266 would do the job.

[Jenz/Amaka]

Trooper Dan, on 01 May 2014 - 11:57 AM, said:

@MrGlasses: you are referring to Fox's solution, right? I don't see how the code from Hendricks266 would do the job.

Yea, I used Fox's.

[1337DirtAlliance]

How do you add new Ambiance sounds???

This is what I tried to do in my Custom content folder. Do I need to define something in the con files? If so what would I need to do?

// VOC MUSIC/SOUND REPLACEMENTS

Sound { ID 400 file "CustomT/CMusic/Music/Voc/barmusic.ogg" }
Sound { ID 401 file "CustomT/CMusic/Music/Voc/Mario.ogg" }

[Hendricks266]

http://wiki.eduke32....iki/Definesound

Then you need to add them to MUSICANDSFX sprites in the locations you want each individual sound.

[1337DirtAlliance]

Nice! It works. Thanks!

[OpenMaw]

Having an issue.

NEVERMIND! Fixed dat business. Used the other form of flashlight code by Darkus which avoids this issue.

Woo.

[OpenMaw]

How does one get the player's name?

I want to display the player's name on screen as part of a new HUD i'm working on. So, whatever the name is for multiplayer, will be displayed on the screen. I can't find anything in the Wiki about this. "Name" was the closest I could find, it and it doesn't do anything.

This is what my code looks like right now:

gamevar NAME 0 1

definequote 254 PLAYERNAME  // Just standin definition.

onevent EVENT_DISPLAYREST
{
getplayer[THISACTOR].Name NAME                                       // Name
redefinequote 254 %d                                                                // Changes quote to display whatever we tell it.
qsprintf 254 254 NAME                                                              // Print does it's mapping voodoo.
gametext STARTALPHANUM 320 10 254 0 0 0 0 0 xdim ydim
}
endevent

I tried using Idplayers too, and it didn't work either. Is there just no way to do this?

[Fox]

getpname

[OpenMaw]

Fox, on 21 May 2014 - 05:06 PM, said:

getpname

You rock.

[1337DirtAlliance]

What all do I need to do to the con file(s) to add new characters? I was wanting to make three different strippers because I was seeing that doing a pal replacement to the originals was making them change with the random lights lol.. The new one appear in the game. But you can't interact or shoot them. Also for some reason even after using editart to add the stripper gif files to the tiles so they work in 8bit as well. Those aren't showing up in build. But my added wall and floor textures are that are not ported to tiles yet are.

[Hendricks266]

If you have def files, you might as well use tilefromtexture instead of messing with EDITART.

Animated gifs don't automatically become animations in ART. You have to define the tiles separately and set the ART animation value (from defs, the animtilerange command).

The CON files are a scripting language containing elements from C and assembly, so there is no simple solution to what you ask. You just need to program it, and if you don't know programming, learning is the only way.

[OpenMaw]

So i'm working on testing out an idea. I've got other things working more or less the way I want them, but there's something i'm building up to a piece at a time.

Right here, I want to project onto the screen the POV of another object. In this instance a pigcop with a palette of 200. I'm sure this will come off as a bit amusing to some of you, but i'm honestly stumped.

gamevar ptemp 0 2
gamevar ptemp2 0 2

//  ('squadmate') Camera

onevent EVENT_DISPLAYREST
{
	getactor[THISACTOR].picnum ptemp
		ifvare ptemp PIGCOP
			getactor[THISACTOR].pal ptemp2
				ifvare ptemp2 200
				getactor[THISACTOR].x x
				getactor[THISACTOR].y y
				getactor[THISACTOR].z z
				getactor[THISACTOR].ang ang
				// getactor[THISACTOR].horiz horiz
				// getactor[THISACTOR].horizoff temp
				// addvarvar horiz temp
				updatesectorz x y z sect
showviewunbiased x y z ang horiz sect 16 41 56 69
}
endevent

Obviously, this is not working. Oh, It does project a view onto the screen, but it's behind the player.

I'm almost certain I need to call the pig stuff in an EVENT_LOADACTOR and then reference it into the EVENT_DISPLAYREST stuff. I was trying that before and it either wasn't showing up, or was just showing a view from the player's feet.

Note, I commented out a few lines that weren't working (for obvious reasons, they reference a camera setup for a player position.)


So, can someone point me in the right direction?

[1337DirtAlliance]

Hendricks266, on 22 May 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:

If you have def files, you might as well use tilefromtexture instead of messing with EDITART.

Animated gifs don't automatically become animations in ART. You have to define the tiles separately and set the ART animation value (from defs, the animtilerange command).

The CON files are a scripting language containing elements from C and assembly, so there is no simple solution to what you ask. You just need to program it, and if you don't know programming, learning is the only way.

Using tilesfromtexture would be a hell of a lot faster then loading each individual tile via editart. No I know how to make the 8bit tiles oscillate in editart from when I used to design levels before. It's just weird that when I copied over the tiles file(s) to my eduke folder. Nothing changed.

Guess I need to learn how to program now. It looks a bit like php but without the ; at the end of everything lol

[Mblackwell]

Commando Nukem, on 23 May 2014 - 01:47 PM, said:

So i'm working on testing out an idea. I've got other things working more or less the way I want them, but there's something i'm building up to a piece at a time.

Right here, I want to project onto the screen the POV of another object. In this instance a pigcop with a palette of 200. I'm sure this will come off as a bit amusing to some of you, but i'm honestly stumped.

gamevar ptemp 0 2
gamevar ptemp2 0 2

//  ('squadmate') Camera

onevent EVENT_DISPLAYREST
{
	getactor[THISACTOR].picnum ptemp
		ifvare ptemp PIGCOP
			getactor[THISACTOR].pal ptemp2
				ifvare ptemp2 200
				getactor[THISACTOR].x x
				getactor[THISACTOR].y y
				getactor[THISACTOR].z z
				getactor[THISACTOR].ang ang
				// getactor[THISACTOR].horiz horiz
				// getactor[THISACTOR].horizoff temp
				// addvarvar horiz temp
				updatesectorz x y z sect
showviewunbiased x y z ang horiz sect 16 41 56 69
}
endevent

Obviously, this is not working. Oh, It does project a view onto the screen, but it's behind the player.

I'm almost certain I need to call the pig stuff in an EVENT_LOADACTOR and then reference it into the EVENT_DISPLAYREST stuff. I was trying that before and it either wasn't showing up, or was just showing a view from the player's feet.

Note, I commented out a few lines that weren't working (for obvious reasons, they reference a camera setup for a player position.)


So, can someone point me in the right direction?

DISPLAYREST is always called from the player, so it will never be true.

What you want is this

gamevar temp 0 2
gamevar camera_exist -1 1
gamevar camera_x 0 1
gamevar camera_y 0 1
gamevar camera_z 0 1
gamevar camera_horiz 0 1
gamevar camera_sect 0 1

onevent EVENT_DISPLAYREST

    ifvarn camera_exist -1        // we shouldn't display if there's no existing camera actor
        showviewunbiased camera_x camera_y camera_z camera_ang camera_horiz camera_sect 16 41 56 69

endevent

onevent EVENT_GAME
    getactor[THISACTOR].picnum temp
    ifvare temp PIGCOP
    {        
        getactor[THISACTOR].pal temp
        ifvarvare camera_exist THISACTOR ifvarn temp 200 // if the pal is altered somehow we can remove it as the camera
            setvar camera_exist -1
        else ifvare temp 200
        {
            getactor[THISACTOR].x camera_x
            getactor[THISACTOR].y camera_y
            getactor[THISACTOR].z camera_z
            subvar camera_z 8192 // offset until you get to eye level
            getactor[THISACTOR].ang camera_ang
            getactor[THISACTOR].sectnum camera_sect
            setvar camera_horiz 100
            setvarvar camera_exist THISACTOR
        }
    }
endevent

[OpenMaw]

Ohhh! Thank you. Works like a dream.


Thank you for commenting it too. I'm honestly trying to find my way through and learn CON, as much as lack the natural talent for coding.

[1337DirtAlliance]

Hendricks266, on 22 May 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:

If you have def files, you might as well use tilefromtexture instead of messing with EDITART.

Animated gifs don't automatically become animations in ART. You have to define the tiles separately and set the ART animation value (from defs, the animtilerange command).

The CON files are a scripting language containing elements from C and assembly, so there is no simple solution to what you ask. You just need to program it, and if you don't know programming, learning is the only way.

Mapster error log below

Error on line 8bit.def:11: expecting symbol, got "0}"
Error on line 8bit.def:13: expecting symbol, got "0}"

Def Code below

// Stripper00 (3504)
tilefromtexture 3504 { file "CustomT/8bit/3504.png" xoffset -2 }
tilefromtexture 3505 { file "CustomT/8bit/3505.png" xoffset -2 }
tilefromtexture 3506 { file "CustomT/8bit/3506.png" xoffset -2 }
tilefromtexture 3507 { file "CustomT/8bit/3507.png" xoffset -2 }
tilefromtexture 3508 { file "CustomT/8bit/3508.png" xoffset -2 }       <<-- Line 11
animtilerange 3404 3508 2 2
                                                                                                <<-- Line 13
tilefromtexture 3509 { file "CustomT/8bit/3509.png" xoffset 0}         // For some reason if I don't define the X they don't appear in the tiles listing.
tilefromtexture 3510 { file "CustomT/8bit/3510.png" xoffset -1 }
tilefromtexture 3511 { file "CustomT/8bit/3511.gif" xoffset 0}            

Tiles appear in mapster. But she doesn't move.

[OpenMaw]

1337DirtAlliance, on 24 May 2014 - 08:25 AM, said:

Mapster error log below

Error on line 8bit.def:11: expecting symbol, got "0}"
Error on line 8bit.def:13: expecting symbol, got "0}"

Def Code below

// Stripper00 (3504)
tilefromtexture 3504 { file "CustomT/8bit/3504.png" xoffset -2 }
tilefromtexture 3505 { file "CustomT/8bit/3505.png" xoffset -2 }
tilefromtexture 3506 { file "CustomT/8bit/3506.png" xoffset -2 }
tilefromtexture 3507 { file "CustomT/8bit/3507.png" xoffset -2 }
tilefromtexture 3508 { file "CustomT/8bit/3508.png" xoffset -2 }   	<<-- Line 11
animtilerange 3404 3508 2 2
                                                                                                <<-- Line 13
tilefromtexture 3509 { file "CustomT/8bit/3509.png" xoffset 0} 		// For some reason if I don't define the X they don't appear in the tiles listing.
tilefromtexture 3510 { file "CustomT/8bit/3510.png" xoffset -1 }
tilefromtexture 3511 { file "CustomT/8bit/3511.gif" xoffset 0}            

Tiles appear in mapster. But she doesn't move.

In the second group, you need a space between the 0 and }'s.

[1337DirtAlliance]

This is getting annoying now... I stripped out the entire 8bit folder and def and manually injected the sprites via editart and animated them and named them. "This normally works" and when I went into build there was no name for the tiles nor did they animate... No sounds are working also, only a new bar music thats not an overlay of the original surprisingly works. Every other sound doesn't work at all.


<SOLVED> But there is still minor issue

Ended up just saying eat a bag of shit to the duke folder and deleted it. Backed up my content but did a clean install of everything and now it works. Still have animation issues not working tho with the tiles defined in the def. And the spacing issue didn't change anything


Also.. I don't think any of the Warambiance work period. Because I went to upload new ones as an addition. And of course they don't work... tried to see if the normal ones worked,.. nope.