[High Treason]

That's how things are in the art (It used .def files for the art) - but it still doesn't cause the switch to change. Here's how the art files look;


There are eight of those panels, one more dissapears in the hub map for every level you hit the switch in - this part works. Do I need to set up the "On" tile in the .con in some way? I'm willing to bet I've gone and overlooked something stupid. As for bitfields, yeah, that is for another time, I've never used them yet, to be honest, with the one-time-use of the switch, I could get it working using addvar, but then I would have to change code in other places for something that would likely be un-noticed in the game.

[Danukem]

Sorry, the action should be:

action CBPRESS 1 1 1 1 1

I don't know how I managed to miss that.

[High Treason]

Ah, that's done it! Thanks for all of your help, the switch now works perfectly.

You have been added to the credits list for the project, if you want removing from it for some reason, let me know and I'll remove it.

[Danukem]

I'm inclined to ask you to remove it simply because I am already credited for so many different projects that it seems silly. Besides, I didn't do much. The only reason to credit me would be if you were using something much more substantial, like big chunks of code from one of my mods.

[High Treason]

Ok, if that's what you want, consider it done - your name has now been removed from the list. The reason I added it is because I do like to credit anybody that helps, regardless of what it was they did, back when animation was my thing I used to have all kinds of stupid things in the credits, even the guy at Kwik Save that found more pot noodles for me whilst I was working on something - actually, maybe I do take crediting a bit too far.

[wayskobfssae]

Im simply trying to hide the default weapon tiles to input my own.

onevent EVENT_DISPLAYWEAPON
{
getplayer[THISACTOR].curr_weapon temp
ifvare temp PISTOL_WEAPON
{
setvar RETURN -1
}
}
endevent

But... I get no change. I've tried using both PISTOL_WEAPON and 1 as the value for RETURN. And I've tried both displayweapon and drawweapon as the event.

[Danukem]

onevent EVENT_DISPLAYWEAPON

ifvare currentweapon 1 setvar RETURN -1

endevent

[wayskobfssae]

Gracias.

[wayskobfssae]

It's probably simpler if I just write this in pseudo... what I'm trying to do is mimic a 'planar' explosion. Like the blast ring produced by the shock rifle in unreal. Whereas, when the weapon hits a surface, the blast ring is oriented to the angle of that surface. What I have in mind now is:


if I'm near the floor then
{
be a floor-aligned sprite
}
else
{
be a normal aligned sprite
if I'm near a wall then be a wall aligned sprite and set my angle to the wall's angle
}


Getting the floor aligned part to work is easy. But I don't see a way to make an actor check for walls in this way. I was sort of hoping that perhaps the projectile passes information on what it hit to the sprite that it spawns on impact, but maybe this is just wishful thinking. And since the explosion is meant to remain stationary, I can't use htmovflag to test for walls.

[Danukem]

You should be able to check the htmovflag of the projectile in EVENT_KILLIT to determine the wall it is hitting, if any. You can then calculate the wall angle by comparing the x and y coords of the wall point with the x and y of the the other wall point (the other wall point ID is in the point2 member of the wall struct), just as you would calculate the angle to make one actor face another. Make the projectile spawn the explosion using espawn, and then set the angle and whatever else you need to set on the explosion sprite(s). Define the projectile so it spawns nothing by default, since you are doing it with other code.

[wayskobfssae]

DeeperThought, on 31 March 2011 - 08:27 AM, said:

You should be able to check the htmovflag of the projectile in EVENT_KILLIT to determine the wall it is hitting, if any. You can then calculate the wall angle by comparing the x and y coords of the wall point with the x and y of the the other wall point (the other wall point ID is in the point2 member of the wall struct), just as you would calculate the angle to make one actor face another. Make the projectile spawn the explosion using espawn, and then set the angle and whatever else you need to set on the explosion sprite(s). Define the projectile so it spawns nothing by default, since you are doing it with other code.

Excellent, TY. Yes, I already had the idea for how to calculate the wall angle, I just couldn't think of a way to get the wall's ID number from the projectile.

Good info too, so now I also know how to make bullets spawn blood when they hit a monster.

[Danukem]

wayskobfssae, on 31 March 2011 - 08:37 PM, said:

Excellent, TY. Yes, I already had the idea for how to calculate the wall angle, I just couldn't think of a way to get the wall's ID number from the projectile.

Good info too, so now I also know how to make bullets spawn blood when they hit a monster.

If the bullet is hitscan, then you should spawn the blood from the SHOTSPARK1 actor when the bullet hits, since there is no real projectile. For an example of this, you can check the code in DukePlus or in several other released mods. The key to making it work is getting data from the htg_t array in the SHOTSPARK1 actor: http://wiki.eduke32.com/wiki/Htg_t Specifically, you want htg_t 8

[High Treason]

Ugh... I can't figure out what is going wrong here, I know my DEF files are right because the tiles show up in Mapster32 and before they were set up as actors.

// Kuribo
define KURIBO1 8231
define KURIBO2 8232

action KURIBOANIM 8231 2 1 1 8

move KURIBOMOVE 0 32

useractor enemy KURIBO1 1 KURIBOANIM KURIBOMOVE
cstat 257
  ifhitweapon {
	// spawn something better when I have implemented it...
  	spawn BLOOD
    	killit
      	}
enda

In short, it is supposed to make the enemy walk in one direction once the player can see it, but all that happens is the actor is invisible in the game, some of the code executes, but it does not appear to move and is, as I said, invisible. This is happening with every actor I put in (with several other anomalies, but I can work around those).

Anybody got any ideas as to what is going on? I know I probably forgot something stupid.

[Danukem]

Try this. You should be able to figure out why it's better:

useractor enemy KURIBO1 1

  ifmove 0
  {
    move KURIBOMOVE geth
    sizeat 40 40
    action KURIBOANIM
    cstat 257
  }
  ifhitweapon {
        // spawn something better when I have implemented it...
        spawn BLOOD
        killit
        }
enda

[bullerbullerseven]

Yea, that was the problem i had too before DT told me that ifmove 0 is pretty important in an actor code.

[High Treason]

Yeah, that may be, I had to alter the move command to make the code work, but the actor still disappears when the action line is used, if I remove this a static Kuribo will move as I want it, but that does not explain why there is still a problem with the action command.

[Wolf]

High Treason, on 11 April 2011 - 04:44 PM, said:

Yeah, that may be, I had to alter the move command to make the code work, but the actor still disappears when the action line is used, if I remove this a static Kuribo will move as I want it, but that does not explain why there is still a problem with the action command.

Quote

define KURIBO1 8231
define KURIBO2 8232

action KURIBOANIM 8231 2 1 1 8

This is telling it to start the action on frame 16462. The first number in the action frame (in this case) should be 0.

[Danukem]

High Treason, on 11 April 2011 - 04:44 PM, said:

Yeah, that may be, I had to alter the move command to make the code work, but the actor still disappears when the action line is used, if I remove this a static Kuribo will move as I want it, but that does not explain why there is still a problem with the action command.

Heh, I see what you did. I didn't even look at your action definition before, but it's obviously wrong. It should look like this:


action KURIBOANIM 0 2 1 1 8

Remember, the first parameter of the action command is relative to the actor's defined tile number. Look at all the examples in the original CONs and look at the wiki if you don't understand.

[High Treason]

Funny thing is I read the wiki... knew it was something I had done but couldn't figure out why, that makes more sense than the way I tried doing it. Thanks for all the help. Now that one actor works I shouldn't need any help for quite a while until I do something else stupid. I always have problems with "action" and "move" - hopefully this will be the last time, in fact, I will bookmark this page for future reference.

[bullerbullerseven]

Remember that you can do the same with ai, ai is just actions and moves combined.

[SleeperService]

Hey guys, I'm a new user, and I hope this is the correct thread to post this question in.
I wanted to do some basic con editing - VERY basic con editing. Back in the days of running Duke 3D through MS DOS, editing the user.con for weapon damages, ammo capacities etc was relatively straightforward.

However, with the HRP and eDuke I've been having some difficulty making the requisite changes.

Basically, I edited the CON files for the following characterstics:

Ammo Capacity for specific weapons
Weapon Damage
Enemy HP
Ammo pick up amount

Of this, only the first change has been successful. I've tried changing the other variables but to no avail.

So then I tried replacing the USER.CON file in DUKE3D.GRP with Loom's GRP viewer, but when I try to run the eDuke executable, it says something about "failed to load art". I know the USER.CON file has been succesfully replaced, because it's size within the viewer had changed.

The weird thing is how that first change works, but the others don't - I'd have expected all the variables to display the same consistency, but the CON file seemed to be able to override the GRP without trouble - except only for that variable set.

[Danukem]

SleeperService, on 16 April 2011 - 07:40 PM, said:

So then I tried replacing the USER.CON file in DUKE3D.GRP with Loom's GRP viewer

Don't do that. Leave the edited USER.CON loose in your folder, and it will override the one inside DUKE3D.GRP

If you change those things you mentioned, it should work just like back in '96.

Without more information, I can't tell why only one of your edits is working. It's possible that you edited the wrong values. Attach a copy of your eduke32.log if you can't get it to work, and it should tell us if there's anything weird in your setup.

[SleeperService]

Thanks Deeper Thought, but I solved it - I had downloaded eDuke a LONG time ago - it was a very old edition. I downloaded the latest snapshot and installed it - problem completely solved. All parameters are now acting as expected.

[m210®]

I want to add names of players in multiplayer into other game menu. Is it available?

[Superthijs]

Hi all,
I have a little question about health changing in my custom actor code.
How to set the health to a value given (like 100 to 1)?
I don't mean to add/remove health, but just set the health.
Any ideas...?

[Danukem]

Superthijs, on 05 May 2011 - 08:37 AM, said:

Hi all,
I have a little question about health changing in my custom actor code.
How to set the health to a value given (like 100 to 1)?
I don't mean to add/remove health, but just set the health.
Any ideas...?

http://wiki.eduke32.com/wiki/Strength

[CruX]

For at least a few months now, I've been wanting to create a noticeable head-bobbing effect that takes place whenever the player walks, like you'd see in Doom and a few other older FPS. Now mind you, I've been assuming this entire time that DN3D had no such effect, because I'd never noticed any significant change in the camera's position if I was just walking/running. When I was messing around with it this morning, though, I put the cameraz var into a digitalnumber command just to see what its value was at, and low and behold, the number changed as I was walking. So there's clearly a bobbing effect going on, and I just want it to be more pronounced. Considering that, my two questions are - -

1) Is there any con-access to the value that's being added/subtracted to the cameraz variable when the player moves?
and if not, then
2) can I get any advice on how to start manipulating that variable in tandem with the player's movement? I've altered the cameraz variable easily enough when I was setting it to a fixed number, but trying to make it move up and down in a fluid pattern as the player moves is probably going to be way more challenging.

[Danukem]

EmericaSkater, on 06 May 2011 - 10:03 AM, said:

For at least a few months now, I've been wanting to create a noticeable head-bobbing effect that takes place whenever the player walks, like you'd see in Doom and a few other older FPS. Now mind you, I've been assuming this entire time that DN3D had no such effect, because I'd never noticed any significant change in the camera's position if I was just walking/running. When I was messing around with it this morning, though, I put the cameraz var into a digitalnumber command just to see what its value was at, and low and behold, the number changed as I was walking. So there's clearly a bobbing effect going on, and I just want it to be more pronounced. Considering that, my two questions are - -

1) Is there any con-access to the value that's being added/subtracted to the cameraz variable when the player moves?
and if not, then
2) can I get any advice on how to start manipulating that variable in tandem with the player's movement? I've altered the cameraz variable easily enough when I was setting it to a fixed number, but trying to make it move up and down in a fluid pattern as the player moves is probably going to be way more challenging.

Interesting problem. Here's what I would do (and I might do it myself if I have time later today). First, in one of the display events (you could use EVENT_DISPLAYROOMS), set the cameraz to the player head height (getplayer[screenpeek].posz cameraz). This will set the height to a neutral position before you manipulate it, thereby negating whatever hardcoded z movement is going on. Next, use a sin function to make the camera move up and down when the player is on the ground and walking/running. Use the player's velocity (determined by posxv and posyv in the player struct) to determine the length of the wave (higher velocity means shorter waves). You also need to factor the passage of time in there somewhere, comparing player_par from the start of movement to the current time (I know that's vague, but it would be easier if I were looking at actual code). Shift the result some bits to the right or left as appropriate (probably to the right, since the result of the sin function will give you a big number) and add the result to cameraz. If your mod uses footstep sounds, make them occur when cameraz is at the lowest point.

[CruX]

Hmm...unfortunately, most of what you mentioned is totally left-field for me. About the most success I had in implementing it was getting the hardcoded z-movement to stop. I'll bullet what I'm having trouble with...

• Not quite sure how to get the player's velocity from the posx/v struct members. I hope you'll bare with me, I've never altered them before. Course, trying to use just one for the sin calculation didn't do anything, nor did add/subtracting them.
  
• I'm not even totally sure where I 'should' be using the sin function. I know I'm trying to produce a number to add to the cameraz variable, but you can only alter that variable in the displayrooms event (IIRC), which brings round another point...
  
• After I fixed the cameraz variable, I started trying alter it by adding onto it when the player was walking. The value would get added once, then remain unchanged.

[XThX2]

So I've been away for too long from this I hope I'm not wrong with these :

Quote

•Not quite sure how to get the player's velocity from the posx/v struct members. I hope you'll bare with me, I've never altered them before. Course, trying to use just one for the sin calculation didn't do anything, nor did add/subtracting them.

- Cosine Theorem ? (posxv^2 + posyv^2 - 2posxv*posyvcos(anglefromposxandposy) = velocity^2)

About length of wave... I hope you don't mean the arc length, because that needs integration

Note : As to why I'm interested in this myself, I both want to code this also and get back into modding for Duke.