[Danukem]

Captain Awesome, on Aug 7 2009, 11:35 AM, said:

It goes through walls? That's very interesting, I didn't know if that could be achieved, could be very useful for a Red Faction/Eraser style Railgun.

Not really, because the projectile isn't going through walls, what's happening is that he is spawning it at a point past the wall (by making it spawn some distance in front of the player). Once it gets moving, it will be stopped by a wall just like any other projectile.

[Jimmy]

Oh. =( It'd be very cool if a bit could be implemented that allowed a projectile to go through walls.

[Jimmy]

Sorry to double post, but I was wondering how one would go about coding a spawner that would spawn a certain amount of something by a defined var. I know you could do the "ifvare 1, ifvare 2, etc etc" route, but that seems like a waste. Is there a simpler way?

[Danukem]

Captain Awesome, on Aug 7 2009, 08:04 PM, said:

Sorry to double post, but I was wondering how one would go about coding a spawner that would spawn a certain amount of something by a defined var. I know you could do the "ifvare 1, ifvare 2, etc etc" route, but that seems like a waste. Is there a simpler way?

[code]

whilevarn NUMSPAWNS 0
{
espawnvar SPAWNPICNUM
subvar NUMSPAWNS 1
}

[Jimmy]

Doh, I have never used this command before. Thanks.

[Fox]

Is there a way so that I can check if a user map in running without confusing with volume 0 level 7?

[XThX2]

What do you mean with "confusion" ? Is it about the music ?

[Chip]

Captain Awesome, on Aug 7 2009, 08:08 PM, said:

Oh. =( It'd be very cool if a bit could be implemented that allowed a projectile to go through walls.

Its still possible to emulate such a thing with the commands we already have. It wont be perfect but It will still work. Just have the projectile spawn a pathfind sprite that syncs its possition with the weapon but also ahead slightly. Then have that work out whether its gone through a wall or not then make it adjust the projectile accordingly so it misses the wall and travels through the void.....assuming that we can repossition a live projectile and that it doesn't pop once its out of a sector, if not then have the pathfinder travel through the wall till it reaches a sector then shoot out a new projectile.

[XThX2]

Uhm, I believe hitscan checks and movesprite in EVENT_GAME would work better. (Or simply making it an actor based projectile)

[Chip]

Either way its clearly possible.

[Fox]

XThX2, on Aug 8 2009, 05:17 PM, said:

What do you mean with "confusion" ? Is it about the music ?

I mean, I want to ser up something happen in E1L8, although not to happen in user map...

[XThX2]

Why can't you make the player skip that map and replace your map with E1L9 ? It should save you alot of time.

[Fox]

Meh, that is ugly.

[Jimmy]

Why not just put a special sprite in your E1L8, and if said sprite is not present, such and such does not happen.

[Chip]

Some time next week I'll be doing advanced paving techniques for my actors and with it advanced actor targeting including doing stuff totally different to how I've done things before.
I wont be starting the targeting stuff till the basic paving is done but here's an advance of one of my problems I'll be running into, take a look at the picture below:



My bot will be looking for actors using the findnearactor command and then seeing if he can see them using the canseesprite commands and stuff. The problem in the picture is that my Bot will find enemy number 2 each time findnearactor is used since enemy 2 is the closest target. The Bot cannot see the enemy so I need it to search for the next closest enemy........but how?
Findnearactor will always bring me the ID of the closest target so I can't use that. Each of the 3 enemies are in their own sectors so I can't have my actor quickly check his current sector for enemies, I can't have the enemies tell the Bot their locations if they can see him because enemy 3 in the picture could very well be a sniper and telling the Bot his location would allow the bot to aim his weapons accurately at a target you shouldn't even be able to see till you're much closer so I don't want it to be able to shoot accross the map all because someone hiding can see him and I can't have it check what's in front of it using hitscan because the closest enemy (enemy 1) is on a moderate sized piller which puts it above the Bot's center possition. (also I've never got hitscan to work since it requires sin cos and tan and I don't know how to get those)

Before I make a suggested to TerminX about having an "optional" addon value to the findnearactor commands that allows you to toggle the number of actors it searches before it records the ID (This value would be a gamevar so actors can adjust it themselves), is there any other way to make my Bot in that picture find Actor enemy 1 and other actors in simular situations which aren't the closest but are shootable?

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[XThX2]

Wait wait, shouldn't findnearactor fail to return ID when there are more than same of that actor ? That's what I recall it and it's friends doing... Use the looping through all sprites method. I think it was ;

whilevarn spritenum 16384
{
	addvar spritenum 1
	
	getactor[spritenum].picnum picnum
	ifvare picnum <youractor>
	{
		 execute some commands, possibly some distance checks involved in your case ?
	 }
}

I maybe wrong though.

[Chip]

I've never had any problems with findnearactor when there's multiples of the same actor in the same sector.
As for the code, wont that take a while to cycle through all of them? What if there are only 2 enemies it should be looking for, both having a number higher then 16000? Leaving my actor to wounder aound being shot till it checks through all those numbers (Fair enough, my actors will respond to being shot at but only if they get hit still leaving a possible situation of my bots not shooting nearby enemies for a while.)

[XThX2]

I believe it performs the check faster than what you think it is... Anyway what I meant was not the same sector but the RANGE you define for the command. What if more than one of the same actor in the specified range? Troubles ?

[Fox]

findnearactor actor is quite limited. First it is lying, it doesn't find the nearest actor, but rather the one with the lowest ID. Second you can only find one actor tile at range.

[Chip]

So basically the findnearactor stuff really isn't any good?

Anyway, something else (and should be simple) how do I get an actor to know the sector number it is in (so it can then be past onto another actor) and if an actor is outside of a sector would it treat the sector number as -1?
Basically I need my actor to know if it is outside of a sector (in the void) and It seems more difficult then I first thought mainly because I can't find a way to make the actor obtain the sector number its in.


*edit*

Nevermind, I found this: "updatesector <x> <y> <gamevar>"
I was originally only looking in the wiki's sector structure pages.

[XThX2]

sectnum

Use it to find the sectorID the actor is at. When you have it, you can check for say, a specific lotag on sector to define your "void" and check if the sector has that tag, your actor can do stuff.

[Chip]

XThX2, on Aug 9 2009, 10:25 PM, said:

sectnum

Use it to find the sectorID the actor is at. When you have it, you can check for say, a specific lotag on sector to define your "void" and check if the sector has that tag, your actor can do stuff.

Damn it! It was in the sprite structure pages!
Anyway I think the updatesector command will be more useful though.

[Lord Misfit]

I find myself needing some help again. o.o

In NR I have it set that when you have the game paused, it shows a customized display which generally includes a quote from the current character in play as a biting quip to the player directly [breaking fourth-wall type of stuff], which changes between five quotes after a set time. However there's a problem with it in incrementing timer variables in EVENT_DISPLAYREST, which the var will increment at a different speed depending on the specs of the system or the CPU power [i.e. mine takes twice the intended time to cycle quotes, while a friends cycles the quotes 3-4 times faster than it should be].

I wanted to put the incrementing var somewhere else where it wouldn't cause the problem, but putting it in the APLAYER actor is useless since actor code won't run when the game is paused. Code under EVENT_GAME also doesn't seem to run at all when the game is paused, so the timer wouldn't increment in that situation either, and I need to know if there's somewhere I can insert my "addvar [timer] 1" code where it'll increment at a proper speed but still run while the game is paused. Anyone know what to do? o.o

[Danukem]

Lord Misfit, on Aug 10 2009, 03:19 PM, said:

I find myself needing some help again. o.o

In NR I have it set that when you have the game paused, it shows a customized display which generally includes a quote from the current character in play as a biting quip to the player directly [breaking fourth-wall type of stuff], which changes between five quotes after a set time. However there's a problem with it in incrementing timer variables in EVENT_DISPLAYREST, which the var will increment at a different speed depending on the specs of the system or the CPU power [i.e. mine takes twice the intended time to cycle quotes, while a friends cycles the quotes 3-4 times faster than it should be].

I wanted to put the incrementing var somewhere else where it wouldn't cause the problem, but putting it in the APLAYER actor is useless since actor code won't run when the game is paused. Code under EVENT_GAME also doesn't seem to run at all when the game is paused, so the timer wouldn't increment in that situation either, and I need to know if there's somewhere I can insert my "addvar [timer] 1" code where it'll increment at a proper speed but still run while the game is paused. Anyone know what to do? o.o

I guess you could use this to see how much real time is passing:

http://wiki.eduke32....iki/Gettimedate

[Hendricks266]

If you want to be fancy, you could detect the pause buttonpress in EVENT_PROCESSINPUT, cancel it, and then recreate it using statnums in conjunction with other necessary modifications, like locking the game timer and player input. However, there may still be problems, like the lack of the ability to pause and seek through music.

[Fox]

Lord Misfit, on Aug 10 2009, 07:19 PM, said:

I find myself needing some help again. o.o

In NR I have it set that when you have the game paused, it shows a customized display which generally includes a quote from the current character in play as a biting quip to the player directly [breaking fourth-wall type of stuff], which changes between five quotes after a set time. However there's a problem with it in incrementing timer variables in EVENT_DISPLAYREST, which the var will increment at a different speed depending on the specs of the system or the CPU power [i.e. mine takes twice the intended time to cycle quotes, while a friends cycles the quotes 3-4 times faster than it should be].

I wanted to put the incrementing var somewhere else where it wouldn't cause the problem, but putting it in the APLAYER actor is useless since actor code won't run when the game is paused. Code under EVENT_GAME also doesn't seem to run at all when the game is paused, so the timer wouldn't increment in that situation either, and I need to know if there's somewhere I can insert my "addvar [timer] 1" code where it'll increment at a proper speed but still run while the game is paused. Anyone know what to do? o.o

I know what do you meant. I don't use the game paused to create a custom intermission screen, since I want to use another input keys out there (for example Space key doesn't work in paused game), so I can use a var in APLAYER.

I think this could be resolved if there was a gamevar that holds how much tics in a screen event passes for every normal tic.

[Lord Misfit]

If gettimedate could get the current tic of the current second, I could probably use it for my idea, but I need to be more specific in timer increments than just seconds [aka I need to gauge the time in tics], because I want to have it that every set amount of seconds, it will change the quote and then also play a sound that goes along with it. However, if I do a var check for a second's worth of time using gettimedate [since it can't get the tic value of a second right now], it'll keep playing the sound for all 26 tics of that second since the code will have to use stopsound to cut off a previously playing sound and just it'll sound weird for the first 26 tics, and I'd rather only make it play on the first tic of the first second, if you know what I mean.

[Fox]

But that's pretty basic for CON. I meant, just:

Ifvare TEMP 0
{
  sound DUKETALK_BOSSFALL
  setvar TEMP 1
}

Surely it will only do it for a tic.

[Hendricks266]

There's also the getticks command.

[Fox]

Hendricks266, on Aug 13 2009, 03:50 PM, said:

There's also the getticks command.

That's pretty good to know