[DECORATE] Some Inventory Code Pointers

[Slasher]

This idea came to me when I was trying to create an actor that spawns other actors that fight alongside it. I wanted to make sure it couldn't spawn more than 4 "offspring" at a time, but if one died, the monster would be able to spawn another one, again for a total of 4.

Anyway, to monitor this I thought about using a simple inventory item that is given to the parent actor, up to 4, so it knows how many have been spawned, and when one dies, take away one of the items. That's when I realized that I didn't know how to tell the offspring to remove the item from the inventory of the parent.

Therefore, my suggestion:

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A_GiveToMaster
A_TakeFromMaster

A_GiveToChildren
A_TakeFromChildren

And with these comes many new possibilities for more interesting actors and stuff.

So what do you think? Is this doable?

[XutaWoo]

I already asked this. It got WFDS'd.

[Slasher]

It did? Why though... It would need to know the parent or child of the actor calling the pointer, and that information must be collected in order to use the other master/child codepointers right?

Eh, what do I know? I don't know the source code, so if it gets WFDS, so be it.