A neat editing trick I accidentally discovered

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:35 pm

Mark a sector with Doom 1's 'end level' sector special and then add 'enable wind'. The wind flag will disable the damage of the end level flag but the special handling that prevents the player from dying still works. You will have a sector where you can't die!

Post by **Vader** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:01 pm

This might be pretty useful

You could build a kind of holy sanctuary where you´re secure from the demons, for example!

Post by **Kirby** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:30 pm

that's pretty awesome! I might just be able to use that...

Medricel · Post by **Medricel** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:37 pm

Wow, very neat... Too bad you get left off with 1 hitpoint, though

Oh well, that's why medkits were invented!

killingblair · Post by **killingblair** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:38 pm

Yeah! Like a holy river or something!

fuzzyfireball 1 · Post by **fuzzyfireball 1** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:20 pm

heh this would be good for the map my friend made!

the llama demons land! their a holy water fountien heh

good find!

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:19 am

Interesting... How the hell did you manage find that?

Post by **Chris** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:55 am

Am I the only one that thinks this is a bug that should be fixed? Imagine a windy cliff with a bunch of debris being blown at you, and the level ends when you die/go unconscious.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:59 am

cutmanmike wrote:Interesting... How the hell did you manage find that?

I was looking at the dying code when I thought about Boom's bit mask implementation which disables any normal damage types when one of the bit flags is set. So I just modified E2M8 to test it and voilà - the Cyberdemon was unable to kill me!

@Chris: No, it's not a bug. The way it behaves is fully intentional - except for the not being able to die part. The bit flags disable the damage types intentionally. Although, in Boom they completely disable the normal sector special so all ZDoom does is adding an additional feature.

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:54 am

This is not a bug, this is a very useful trick

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Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:00 am

If it aint broke, don't fix it!

Anakin S. · Post by **Anakin S.** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:17 am

Graf Zahl wrote:Mark a sector with Doom 1's 'end level' sector special and then add 'enable wind'. The wind flag will disable the damage of the end level flag but the special handling that prevents the player from dying still works. You will have a sector where you can't die!

But why the 'enable wind' flag?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:48 am

You can also use the 'enable friction' flag. It's just that the wind flag has the least impact on the game. Any of the Boom bitflag values will achieve this effect.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:15 pm

I'm wondering what would happen if the player got MDKed or ACS kills him..

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:41 pm

Impossible. The check is done in the damaging function. The player can't die in such a sector.

A neat editing trick I accidentally discovered

A neat editing trick I accidentally discovered

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