Is it possible to get an actor's TID via ACS/DECORATE?

[Ravick]

I'm working in some small mods that joins some even smaller mods. Some of the smaller mods have changed the same actor, I mean, each mod has a version of the zombieman or so. I'm making spawners that can spawn the correct version depending on the current map. I got it to work fine, except by one problem: It does not transfer it's TID for the other actors. Is there a way to me to do that?

The spawners are like this one:

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ACTOR ZombieManSpawn : ZombieMan 3004
{
States
{
 Spawn:
    POSS AB 1
   POSS A 0 A_JumpIf(1 == (ACS_ExecuteWithResult(999,0,0,0)), "Spawn2")
   POSS A 1 A_SpawnItemEx ("Zombieman", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SXF_NOCHECKPOSITION| SXF_TRANSFERAMBUSHFLAG, 0)
   stop
 Spawn2:
   POSS A 1 A_SpawnItemEx ("ModdedZombieMan", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SXF_NOCHECKPOSITION| SXF_TRANSFERAMBUSHFLAG, 0)
   stop   
}
}

This is for a 2 maps mod.

I was thinking in change the spawned actor's via ACS, but I don't know how to get things TID.
Any idea?

[Gez]

Well, use the tid keyword. It's one of the things supported by DECORATE expressions.

[Ravick]

Oops! Didn't know that

Thanks.

[HellCattX]

What i do for random spawners is this.
Edit the Dehacked info to this

Thing 2 (Trooper)
ID # = 21043 <------- ( enter any new number there )

Then Make a new spawner with the 3004 tid

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Actor ZombieManSpawner 3004
{
   +IsMonster
   Radius 20
   States
   {
   Spawn:
      TNT1 A 0
      TNT1 A 0 A_Jump(60,2)
      TNT1 A 1 A_SpawnItem(" ZombieMan1",1)
      Goto Death
      TNT1 A 0 A_Jump(128,2)
      TNT1 A 1 A_SpawnItem(" ZombieMan2",1)
      Goto Death
      TNT1 A 1 A_SpawnItem(" ZombieMan3",1)
      Stop
   Death:
      TNT1 A 0
      Stop
   }
}

now thats for a random encounter for one of the three zombiemen anyware a normal zombieman would spawn, but i am sure you can tweek it to not so random.

[Gez]

What i do for random spawners is this.

Did you know that there exist a RandomSpawner thing that is a lot better than your manual spawners?

The problem is that they do not allow for conditional spawning depending on script results like what Ravick needs, or I would have told him to use them.

Your spawners will not transmit the TID, spawn flags, Z height, or anything else that a correct replacer should. They will also break boss death maps (make some random mancubus replacer using your method and see what happens in Dead Simple -- or rather, what doesn't happen).

[HellCattX]

i cant get that random spawner to work, but i never seen those issues you described before, but i never throughly tested out all the maps either. But just trying to help where i could, as it seems to work for me.

[Ravick]

Thanks, guys. Help is always welcome!

So, I've set the master/child flag to the A_SpawnEX command, and make the spawned monsters call this script:

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Script 997 (void)
{
   int Tidareceber;   
   
   Tidareceber = GetActorProperty (0, APROP_MasterTID);
   Thing_ChangeTID (0, "Tidareceber");
}

But it did not work. Isn't APROP_MasterTID the TID of the master?

[Apothem]

Try using something along the lines of print(i:activatortid()); and see what TID it's giving you to start. At the very least you should probably make a call to another script or something to print some debug output like print(s:"Lolol activator: ", i:activatortid(), s:" reporting!") for your master. Basically, my idea to it is to have two COMPLETELY separate scripts- one for the child and the other for the master. At that point you should be able to figure out what's going wrong I think. You can perform checks with things like playernumber() to make sure you're targeting a monster, and find out which one. You'll find out pretty fast by printing out your tid's to the screen what is going on I would think.

From the sounds of things, you dont have the right actor calling your TID scripts, but I'm too lazy tired to make sure that this is what's going on.

EDIT: whoops clicked submit before I finished typing, damn distractions

[Ravick]

I'll try it. But I've thought about it already, it would work well if it was only once; But the case is that each monster spawner in each map will call its own master-script instance, and every spawned children monster will call its own children-script instance too.

If it was only once, I could make the monster spawner (father/master) sent its TID to a variable and then pass it to the script of the monster child, and give this number as the new TID to the children. But I do not know how to make each instance of master-scripts send the correct value exactly to the corresponding children-script.

I guess it's beyond my skills. I think I will just try to contact all the authors of the smaller mods again and ask permission to make their modded actors DECORATE versions with new ednumbers, and change all the actors on their maps to the new ednumbers.