[CruX]

DeeperThought, on 10 February 2012 - 11:47 AM, said:

I have had problems with crashes on exit for years, regardless of what mod or code I am using. Sometimes they are more frequent, sometimes less. It seems random to me. So I would not assume it has anything to do with your actor.

Well, in this case it really isn't random, which is why I brought it up. And while the frequency with which it's happening (nearly every time) is definitely a problem, it isn't just that; the crash is happening on too consistent and too manageable of a basis. If I'm in a map that doesn't have the actor in it, the crash never occurs. If I take all of the sound commands out of the actor, it won't happen either. If I just use the WHITENOISE sound, it happens the majority of the time, and if I use both sounds, it happens every time without fail. I shuffled a few lines of the actor's code around last night so it'd run a bit more efficiently, but nothing's changed, and different builds of eDuke don't give me any different results either. I shouldn't make a big deal out of it, and essentially I'm not since I can just keep the sounds out, push comes to shove. But the whole thing still seems weird, and while I've dealt with exit crashes too, this one seems like its in a league of its own.

*EDIT*
And not even an hour after I posted this, I checked the actor out in-game once more, and the crash isn't happening at all now if I just use the WHITENOISE sound (though it'll still crash every time if the other sound is included). I don't know what the fuck...

[Helixhorned]

This is interesting, but it would be more useful if you provided a ready-to-run package to test out. Could you rip out the code/defs/whatever else and post/PM them?

edit: most conveniently in a zip to just -gTHE.zip and run it...

[Wolf]

Were there any ways added to adjust the pitch/roll etc. of first person md3s via con?

EDIT: Another thing, while bugging out my player into the floor I discovered a kind of neat bug(?). Would there be any way to reproduce the weapon motions here via con?

[Jblade]

Hmm, I'm pretty sure it IS possible but not that thing specifically. You can add a weapon sway ability so the gun shifts to the left/right depending on what way you're turning quite easily, I did that in IW and AMC TC (Of course it looks better in IW since I used 3D weapon models in that myself) Find out if the player's turning, and set a variable which is taken from the weapon's x co-ordinate in the display code.

[Mblackwell]

Display your weapon using something like:

    setvar x <SOME_X_POSITION>
    addvarvar x weapon_xoffset
    subvarvar x looking_angSR1
    setvar y <SOME_Y_POSITION>
    addvarvar y looking_arc
    subvarvar y gun_pos

Then modify the player member look_ang:
http://wiki.eduke32.com/wiki/Look_ang


Eg:

    setplayer[THISACTOR].ang 1536

    getplayer[THISACTOR].angvel ANGVEL
    getplayer[THISACTOR].look_ang LOOK_ANG
    addvarvar LOOK_ANG ANGVEL
    setplayer[THISACTOR].angvel 0

Should give you the general effect. Note that you won't be able to physically turn*, but it will give the impression that you're turning your head around. Have fun!

*Obviously modify the code to fit your design and desires.

[rasmus thorup]

The weapons in my mod does something close to that. They follow duke with a little delay, so it looks like he have to "pull" the weapon.

I used some of the weapon structures here http://wiki.eduke32....layer_structure

Have fun :S

[Kyanos]

Is there a con command to choose which grp is loaded??

Also why won't any of my custom grp's show in the game selection window?

[m210®]

I have problems with activating SE12 via CON commands.
operateactivators, operatemasterswitches, operaterespawns, operatesectors, activatebysector doesn't works for it. How to do this?

[CruX]

M210, on 02 March 2012 - 04:43 AM, said:

operateactivators, operatemasterswitches, operaterespawns, operatesectors, activatebysector doesn't works for it. How to do this?

Yeah, none of those commands will work because the lightswitch doesn't work with activators or sector tags (etc.) it all happens within the SE. That being said, you'd have to find some way to alter the SE to make it jive with checkactivatormotion or something like that. I don't mess around with SE's or really any of those actors so I can't help with that. If I were you, I'd just make a new actor that uses checkactivatormotion, then changes the floorshade of the sector it's in to a certain parameter defined in its hitag (or some other struct member like that) if the activator in motion equals a certain other struct member (lotag, extra, etc.)

And as long as I'm mentioning checkactivatormotion, is there some other sort of command I'm not aware of that checks the motion of a sector itself? I created an actor some time ago that would play two different, specific sounds for when a door opened and closed (like in Doom), but ATM it's using checkactivatormotion to keep tabs of when the door's actually opening and when it's closing, ergo every door that uses this actor HAS to be operated by a switch. I'd kind of like for it to also work with regular doors that you can open with the spacebar, but I can't find any command or check that would help with that.

[m210®]

It's sadly that no way to make it, but anyway thanks. Probably have to make a sprite myself, although I don't want to do this

[m210®]

And a second question, is there way to check ceilings on hits of radiusexplosion by projectiles?
that's very easy to get via bullets like this

getactor[THISACTOR].picnum picnum
ifvare picnum SHOTSPARK1 
{ 
	getactor[THISACTOR].htg_t 6 tmp
	ifvare tmp -1
	{
		getactor[THISACTOR].htg_t 7 sectorid
		getactor[THISACTOR].z sector_z1
		getsector[sectorid].ceilingz sector_z2
		ifvarvare sector_z2 sector_z1 {        }
	}
}

but I can't to make such code for projectiles...
because projectiles can damage ceilings even if it get into the wall

[m210®]

Ok, I made own LightEffector. The result is a very good tool. For example now I can highlight walls and floor only. And I made a new video with some effects on E1M2 from BloodTC.

And about mapster32 scripts. I got a one idea when I saw savegamevar
Maybe make those command for mapster32? Save a variable and value to file in m32 than call variable in the game?

[Diaz]

Is operateactivators currently broken?

I've made an actor that is supposed to trigger activators whose lotag match the actor's hitag when it's killed (it's a monster). The code works fine bacause it prints out the debugging quote I've added, but it's not triggering the activators. Even if I set it to operate activators defined by a fixed number (just in case I'm not parsing the hitag correctly), it won't work.

    getplayer[THISACTOR].i TEMP
    checkactivatormotion HITAG
        ifvarn RETURN 1
        {
            quote 100
            operateactivators HITAG TEMP 
        }

This code is executed on the ifdead... section of the actor's ifhitweapon code.

[Danukem]

Try using 0 instead of TEMP. You are putting the player sprite's ID number in there, but what you actually want is the player number, which is 0 in a single player game. In general, it never hurts to use 0 for that parameter in my experience.

[Diaz]

That worked, thanks! I thought that parameter was just related to the "locked" or "unlocked" quotes and wasn't very important, but looks like it is...

[Danukem]

Diaz, on 12 March 2012 - 08:55 AM, said:

That worked, thanks! I thought that parameter was just related to the "locked" or "unlocked" quotes and wasn't very important, but looks like it is...

Well it's important insofar as players that don't exist can't activate shit.

[Diaz]

well yeah lol... I just thought that parameter wasn't about who activates stuff, but just who gets to see the quote

[Simon_Croes]

When I draw a fullscreen (320x240 in 8-bit) image on the screen it is in 4:3 format and not widescreen, because I want it to stretch over the screen. I could be wrong but I thought that they used widescreen in AMC TC to draw the screens, that worked. Turning widescreen on in the video options doesn't help. Is this some kind of script or con code?

Thanks for helping me out

[Mblackwell]

Let me explain a bit:

320x240 = 4:3

Duke actually uses 320x200 which is 16:10. Then it does some weird crap and stretches that to fit in various 4:3 resolutions.

So first start there, make your graphic the correct 320x200 resolution and that will "fill the screen" on a 4:3 res. Then in rotatesprite (or myospal or whatever) set your orientation to 1024. Note that this will distort the image, but it WILL cover the screen.

Setting widescreen has no effect on graphics that weren't displayed with orientation 1024 set.

[Simon_Croes]

Ah thanks a lot Mblackwell. And yeah, I wasn't sure if my picture was 320x240 or 320x200. I just wanted it to stretch over the screen Thanks again for the help, work perfectly now!

[Diaz]

A quickie:

Is it possible to make it so enemies (hardcoded and useractor enemy) do NOT light themselves up when firing projectiles?

Right now I'm making them notenemy but ofcourse there are some drawbacks, like autoaim not working on them...

[Mblackwell]

Diaz, on 25 March 2012 - 04:46 AM, said:

A quickie:

Is it possible to make it so enemies (hardcoded and useractor enemy) do NOT light themselves up when firing projectiles?

Right now I'm making them notenemy but ofcourse there are some drawbacks, like autoaim not working on them...

For the polymer lights Htflags should theoretically do it.

Also... I'm not sure how not being able to autoaim at enemies is a drawback

[Jblade]

I think he means how to make the enemies not light up as in shade 0, not polymer lights - I *think* it might be worth trying getting the sector's shade and applying it constantly whilst the enemy is shooting, but I'm not that sure.

[Mblackwell]

James, on 25 March 2012 - 06:35 AM, said:

I think he means how to make the enemies not light up as in shade 0, not polymer lights - I *think* it might be worth trying getting the sector's shade and applying it constantly whilst the enemy is shooting, but I'm not that sure.

Shooting a projectile doesn't light anything up though (at least if it's notenemy). The exception to this is polymer, because things like SHOTSPARK1 are coded to cause a light to spawn.

[Jblade]

Mblackwell, on 25 March 2012 - 06:45 AM, said:

Shooting a projectile doesn't light anything up though (at least if it's notenemy). The exception to this is polymer, because things like SHOTSPARK1 are coded to cause a light to spawn.

Yeah an enemy actor does become fullbright if they're firing a shotspark weapon, I thought that was what he meant.

[Plagman]

Right, he just said notenemy fixed it.. He wants the shade to remain constant for enemies.

[Mblackwell]

Plagman, on 25 March 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

Right, he just said notenemy fixed it.. He wants the shade to remain constant for enemies.

Setting the shade manually would be the only way to do it then afaik.

[Diaz]

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. So it's the shade value that needs to change? I'll see if I can get it manually adjusted...

[Danukem]

Diaz, on 25 March 2012 - 07:25 AM, said:

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. So it's the shade value that needs to change? I'll see if I can get it manually adjusted...

Are these enemies you are having the problem with on the regular enemy tile numbers (like PIGCOP, LIZMAN, etc.)?

[Diaz]

Yes and no. I want every enemy model to be lit only by a Polymer light when shooting, instead of getting a shade value.

Some enemies are regular tile numbers, and others are useractors. Behavior seems to be the same.

By the way, setting the shade of the sprite to current sector's floorshade in the actor code doesn't seem to work (I guess the hardcoded shading is applied after my code so it has no effect)

EDIT: Nevermind, setting the shade in EVENT_GAME does work. Marvelous!