[XThX2]

Are action definitions need the player be seen first to be activated ? Because I'm having a strange trouble here. I want my enemy to have a small standing action while inactive but he has to "see" the player to begin the standing action. (I've removed any actor ATTACK/SEEK etc. code for testing; also with the "see" I mean player seeing it, not the monster CORRECTLY seeing you) Here's the code that I use.

 case CHAINGUNNER
   getactorvar[THISACTOR].mo_active temp
   ifvarn temp 1
   {
	   ifaction AENEMYSTAND nullop else action AENEMYSTAND
	   state enemystand
   }
 break

That case is in EVENT_GAME, under a picnum switch. Also, that "state enemystand" only has these lines in it at the moment, to disable another issue about the "seeing" thing I described above :

state enemystand

getactor[THISACTOR].ang temp_ang
ifvarvarn temp_ang standang { setvarvar temp_ang standang setactor[THISACTOR].ang temp_ang }
ends

[Danukem]

 XThX2, on Feb 4 2010, 03:50 PM, said:

Are action definitions need the player be seen first to be activated ?

You could find out easily enough by using changespritestat THISACTOR 1 on the monster in its EVENT_GAME code. EDIT: When you do that, also try setting its httimetosleep to 780 (or some other good number) so it doesn't immediately fall asleep again.

[XThX2]

Well I did that and saw that the action is played on map start. What does it mean now? Does that mean the monster has to see the player?

[XThX2]

How do the "stopactorsound" and "ifactorsound" commands work ? I keep typing in "THISACTOR" and the name of sound I want to stop but it keeps giving me the "expected a keyword but found THISACTOR (or the name of the sound I want to stop)" It doesn't have any wiki article either.

[The Commander]

onevent EVENT_WEAPKEY2
ifvare BARRACKSMENU 1
ifcount 26
{
  resetcount
  setplayer[THISACTOR].shield_amount 100
  setactor[THISACTOR].extra 100
	{
	setvar BARRACKSMENU 0
	addammo PISTOL_WEAPON 999
	}
}
endevent

onevent EVENT_WEAPKEY5
ifvare BARRACKSMENU 1
ifcount 26
{
  resetcount
  setplayer[THISACTOR].shield_amount 200
  setactor[THISACTOR].extra 200
	{
	setvar BARRACKSMENU 0
	addweapon RPG_WEAPON 999 
	}
}
endevent

Both case work fine on there own, but if I am to go from EVENT_WEAPKEY5 back to EVENT_WEAPKEY2 it doesn't set my health and shield back to 100 but sets at random amounts till I have used the EVENT_WEAPKEY2 several times.

Ideally the plan is for classes, but I am unsure why it's not setting the correct health and shield amounts once switching between.


I have just gone from EVENT_WEAPKEY5 Class, to EVENT_WEAPKEY2 Class
The health and shield *should* be 100 each.

[XThX2]

Have you tried waiting a few seconds before you press again ? I think the "ifcount" could be the problem.

[The Commander]

 XThX2, on Feb 8 2010, 03:00 AM, said:

Have you tried waiting a few seconds before you press again ? I think the "ifcount" could be the problem.

Just tried it then, ran around for 30+ seconds.
Went back to the barracks, changed to Riflemen class and same thing, oddly though it gave me a different value than the picture above.

Health: 146
Shield: 54

They seem to be very similar, but not precise. Maybe some sort of percentage value thing going on here?
But why it's not being set to exactly 100 is beyond me.

EDIT: I think I have a fair idea whats going on now.
http://wiki.eduke32....ENT_INCURDAMAGE

[Fox]

How can I play a sound while menu is being displayed (.gm MODE_MENU)? This is, like the menu on/off sounds. If I use sound command, it doesn't play during menu.

Edit: solved sound issue


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How can I disable the display of non-weapon hud display? More specific, hand holding access card. I want to display it using my own code.

[Mblackwell]

http://wiki.eduke32....iki/Access_incs

[Stabs]

Umm can someone write up a script that changes any unseen walls to blank tiles, tile 5000 for example but only if the wall is completley unseen

I think this mite help boost the fps a bit in polymer

[Danukem]

 DanM, on Feb 8 2010, 06:49 PM, said:

Umm can someone write up a script that changes any unseen walls to blank tiles, tile 5000 for example but only if the wall is completley unseen

I think this mite help boost the fps a bit in polymer

If a wall is not being rendered then there is no point in making it blank. So what you want is to blank out walls that are being rendered but are not in the player's view. Even if the necessary information was available at script level (AFAIK it isn't) the processing needed to figure out which walls, then blank and unblank walls, would completely defeat the purpose and actually lower the frame rate.

[Jblade]

That wouldn't even help, would it? I know doing something like that in Half-life helped the FPS but that was using BSP.

[Mblackwell]

Walls that aren't visible aren't being rendered anyway as long as the sector they are in isn't visible (because each sector acts as a portal). Unless you have absolutely every sector exposed in the open with tons of objects in them you shouldn't be getting poor performance. There are ways you could do what you asked, but they would in fact degrade performance massively as others have mentioned.

[XThX2]

How can you make something get gradually more transparent without using cstat ? I see this happens with the mapname printing on picking custom maps from user map menu, but I can't seem to find any code in CON for that. Does anyone know how?

[TerminX]

Heh, that actually does use the transparency bits in cstat, but it also changes the shade of the text at the same time. It's just a cheap trick to fool the eyes.

[XThX2]

Well I guess it indeed did work Any chance of it actually being implemented anytime ?

[The Commander]

http://wiki.eduke32.com/wiki/Endofgame

Is that meant to trigger the episode ending video and return you to the main menu?

I just tried this in a vanilla game, and threw the line right under the APLAYER and it just mutes all sound and certain things don't work. But it doesn't play the ending video and return me to the main menu like I was hoping to.

EDIT: I see that it actually works if you trigger the end of the level, so I can work with that.

[Danukem]

Uh, I'm not sure what you did, but if you just put the line endofgame NUMBER in the player code, then it will constantly reset the end of game timer to that number, so the game will never end but the other effects will occur (such as ifp palive being false)

[The Commander]

Yeah it makes sense now, basically I want to display the ending animation (which is replaced with a new one) after the objective has been met in my mod. So I will use,
setplayer[THISACTOR].gm 8 to trigger the end of the level and endofgame to trigger that animation.

EDIT: I also noticed that it is impossible to get a lower time in the stats of 00.00.03

[blue666]

DeeperThought, on May 19 2009, 07:28 AM, said:

No, just change the TOILETWATER actor so it gives 5 health instead of 1. You literally only have to change a 1 to a 5, that's it.

A Number One, on May 19 2009, 07:41 AM, said:

Thanks. I was thinking it was probably something simple like that, but I guess I do need to crack open the duke3d.grp to get to the CON file. Which is no big deal, just takes a little more time.

Ok, Where do I change the TOILETWATER value? I take it that game.con is no longer being used? If I need to change it in duke3d.grp, I'm not real sure how to go about that. Can somebody point me in the right direction?

Thanks for any help.

[Danukem]

If you are using Duke Plus, then open DUKEPLUS.CON with a text editor (change the extension to .txt first) and search for "ACTOR TOILETWATER". You should find this block of code:

action TOILETWATERFRAMES 0 4 1 1 1
actor TOILETWATER 0 TOILETWATERFRAMES
  ifpdistl 8192
  {
	soundonce WATER_GURGLE
	ifspawnedby TOILET
	  sizeto 34 34
	else
	{
	  ifspawnedby WATERFOUNTAINBROKE
		sizeto 6 15
	  else
		ifspawnedby TOILETWATER
		  nullop
	  else
		sizeto 24 32
	}

	ifp palive
	  ifpdistl RETRIEVEDISTANCE
		ifp pfacing
		  ifactioncount 32
			ifphealthl MAXWATERFOUNTAINHEALTH
			  ifhitspace
				ifcansee
	{
	  ifvare mtype 0
	  {
		  setvar mtype 1
		  sound REFRESHING
		  addphealth 5
	  }
	  addphealth 1
	  globalsound DUKE_DRINKING
	  resetactioncount
	}
  }
enda

Where it says "addphealth" you can change the number after it to any value you want. The first instance where it gives 5 health is for the first time you drink the water.

[williamjcm]

I want to add a reload function in my mod (dl link in my sig) for the MP5 (replacing pistol). I looked at the code in dpcons and found a very big piece of code. Is there a simple way to make it when pressing AIM_DOWN. I know that I have to put "setvar RETURN -1" in the corresponding event.


@Commander : I downloaded your Red Alert mod and tried it. I found it quite hard : no health display and enemies can kill you in 1-2 shots.

[Danukem]

williamjcm, on Feb 19 2010, 04:37 AM, said:

I want to add a reload function in my mod (dl link in my sig) for the MP5 (replacing pistol). I looked at the code in dpcons and found a very big piece of code. Is there a simple way to make it when pressing AIM_DOWN. I know that I have to put "setvar RETURN -1" in the corresponding event.

Maybe it could be simpler than what I did for the MP5 in Duke Plus, but it's still going to be rather complicated. If your weapon has a true clip (not the shitty hardcoded clip system where an empty "clip" is defined as the ammo amount being divisible by the clip size), then you have to override the game's normal weapon handling to implement it. It's complicated enough that I'm not even going to try to list all the different things you have to do.

[The Commander]

williamjcm, on Feb 20 2010, 01:37 AM, said:

@Commander : I downloaded your Red Alert mod and tried it. I found it quite hard : no health display and enemies can kill you in 1-2 shots.

There is a health display you must have tried playing the maps in USER MAPS or something which does not work. You have to select episode one aka ALLIES

If you find it too hard, play it on easy. The skill levels do work.
If you were trying it on easy then try it on hard to see the difference.

[Fox]

What's the best way of making a breakable wall? I can think of using htg_t, but that would not work right for radius explosion or multiple walls...

The Commander, on Feb 19 2010, 03:07 PM, said:

There is a health display you must have tried playing the maps in USER MAPS or something which does not work. You have to select episode one aka ALLIES

If you find it too hard, play it on easy. The skill levels do work.
If you were trying it on easy then try it on hard to see the difference.

For a reason I don't know, I got stuck at RA tc mission briefing screen. So I can only fo it through usermap selection...

[williamjcm]

The Commander, on Feb 19 2010, 07:07 PM, said:

There is a health display you must have tried playing the maps in USER MAPS or something which does not work. You have to select episode one aka ALLIES

If you find it too hard, play it on easy. The skill levels do work.
If you were trying it on easy then try it on hard to see the difference.

I selected the ALLIES episode and the first enemy killed me in one hit.

[The Commander]

Fox, on Feb 22 2010, 07:14 AM, said:

For a reason I don't know, I got stuck at RA tc mission briefing screen. So I can only fo it through usermap selection...

Did you press the "USE" button default "E" like it said at the bottom of the briefing screen.
If so, it maybe possible that you didn't press "YES" when you first installed the mod and that .CFG pop up box came up as noted in the readme.

Although I am not sure how that would have broken the bind for the use key.

williamjcm, on Feb 22 2010, 07:39 AM, said:

I selected the ALLIES episode and the first enemy killed me in one hit.

Do you always stand still when attacking enemies?
Try ducking as well to avoid fire, just keep moving.

EDIT: I seem to talk more about this mod in other threads than the one designed for it.

[Fox]

Is it possible to make an actor not be affected by polymer lights?


For example, I have a lamp that will spawn an SE 49. Although the lamp itself is already bright, and it will always look different ingame because it always will glow beyond the normal sprite.

[Simon_Croes]

I forgot how this is can done...so my question is how do you start in a map without weapons (pistol standard)? I thought you could do this with a tag of something...

[Fox]

Set the player start sector with a damaging floor.

"If a damaging floor texture (except PURPLELAVA) is used under a player's inital start position, that player will start weaponless (this only works once, subsequent spawns will not be affected)." - Infosuit