The "How do I..." Thread

[Arch]

You'd have to spawn a dummy actor and make give that actor the light you want.

I tried that, but I don´t really know how to give a dinamic light to an actor, how do I do that?

[Xtyfe]

You don't give them to actors, you give them to sprites using GLDEFS

[NeuralStunner]

I can press the reload key I defined to reload manually. But the weapon doesn't automatically reload once the bullets in the clip run out.

Read more about the 0 case for A_JumpIfInventory.

[Zombieguy]

It still refuses to reload once it's out of ammo. And I discovered that if I comment out the A_TakeInventory line in the fire state, the thing doesn't even use any ammo. Not even if I set its Weapon.AmmoUse to 1.

[BloodyAcid]

How do I quickly and effectively perform a mass removal of unused textures?

[Ravick]

I vaguely remember seeing a "DIALOGUE" tab in DoomBuilder2 script editor sometimes, but it does'nt appears here anymore. Is there where I writhe the dialog scrpits? Or I have to do it in a text/lump editor and then compile it as a lump? And I see that there is now a USDF and a ZSDF dialog formats. I don't know what to use (nor what is the practical difference) . I'm making my maps in Gzdoom in UDMF, does this interfere with the dialog format to choose?

Bingo. You use USDC to compile it. Not dissimilar from typing up and compiling an ACS script.

Keep in mind that USDF doesn't have to be compiled to be used with ZDoom, and I don't think ZSDF even has a compiler. ZSDF and USDF have the same syntax, except that ZSDF uses actor names rather than ConversationIDs.

Oh, thats good to know. But so where do I write these scripts? Lump SCRIPT00 is only for compiled scripts or could I write them there?

[ledillman]

I just made that Keyconf clearing player class and added the code to replace the pistol with my rifle, but i get this error when testing.

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Script error, "SomoFuAlphaE1M1da2y.wad:DECORATE" line 13:
"inventory.pickupmessage" requires an actor of type "Inventory"

And this:

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Execution could not continue.

Script error, "SomoFuAlphaE1M1da2y.wad:DECORATE" line 13:
Unexpected 'You got the Rifler' in definition of 'Rifler'

[Ravick]

Hum... could you post the code? If you keep the zdoom player class it does not happen?

[BloodyAcid]

How do I make an ACS script that fades to black and back (somewhat like slow blinking)? This code somewhat works, except it fades to a bright white instead of back to normal. Also, what does the int amount do?

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#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 ENTER
{
     fadeto(0, 0, 0, 1.0, 0.6); //fades to black in 0.6 seconds
     delay(35);
     fadeto(255, 255, 255, 0.0, 0.6); //bam, a bright white fade instead of back to normal
     delay(35);
     fadeto(0, 0, 0, 1.0, 1.0);
     delay(35);
     fadeto(255, 255, 255, 0.0, 0.6);
}


All help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Blue Shadow]

Use black (0, 0, 0) instead of white (255, 255, 255).

[BloodyAcid]

Use black (0, 0, 0) instead of white (255, 255, 255).

Thanks! That did the trick.

[ibm5155]

Well, it´s pocible to know the size of a picture like a image font ingame? like 640x480, 800x600... This would be for my scaling image function...

[TerminusEst13]

Is it possible to have a Fullscreen HUD have the same "everything on screen moves up slightly to make way for the bar on bottom" effect a normal HUD have?

I'm thinking of making three different HUDs, one for Normal, Fullscreen, and None, but I'm curious if it's possible to make a Fullscreen HUD act like Normal.

[NeuralStunner]

No. That's why it's "fullscreen".

Also I would avoid modifying the "None" option, personally.

[BloodyAcid]

How do I use ACS to change the player's POV to pan left and right? Sort of like looking left and right.