Hexen Super-damaging sectors!

[udderdude]

In Hexen, if you set a floor to X_001 (the lava), and set certian specials (movement), it will become insanely damaging - you die in less than a second after touching it. :shock:

[Graf Zahl]

Is this still in .96?

[udderdude]

I just checked, and yes, it is.

Any ideas for working around it? All I can think of is to use the Heretic lava floor instead. :/

[Graf Zahl]

As a workaround you can just create a second lava animation which uses X_002 as its base picture and use a standard bitmask damage type for the sector. You don't even need to duplicate any graphics for that.

As for the cause of the bug:

The damage for these sectors is incorrectly applied in both P_PlayerInSpecialSector and P_PlayerOnSpecialFlat. The on in P_PlayerInSpecialSector is not only unnecessary, worse, it contains a bug which causes it to do damage every time the function is called. But it is only called when there is a sector special so it doesn't happen when the sector is 'normal'.


THe following piece of code has to be removed from P_PlayerInSpecialSector:

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	int terrainnum = TerrainTypes[sector->floorpic];

	if (Terrains[terrainnum].DamageAmount &&
		(level.time & Terrains[terrainnum].DamageTimeMask))
	{
		P_DamageMobj (player->mo, NULL, NULL, Terrains[terrainnum].DamageAmount,
			Terrains[terrainnum].DamageMOD);
	}

[udderdude]

Thanks, I found a solution by adding a modified TERRAIN lump to the WAD.

[Graf Zahl]

fixed