Feature Request (Related to Machinama)

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:29 pm

I was thinking of making a large machinama (i mean a movie made in ZdooM preferably mainly through ACS), and I realized some problems. So I have some feature requests:

Thing_WalkTo(tid, destid, speed, wait): Causes a thing with the tid of tid to walk (or run, fly, wha-ever) to a thing with the tid of destid at a speed of speed. Unlike Thing_SetGoal, the thing will go straight to the destid, ignoring everything else, without going off the path, even if shot. The moving thing will use it's regular movement state and animations while it goes to destid.

If wait is 0 the script continues normally. If wait is 1, the script is halted until the thing reaches its destination.
Thing_Attack(attacker, victim, type): Cause a thing with the tid of attacker to attack a thing with the tid of victim. Type specifies what attack it will use:
- 0 = Missile
- 1 = Melee
- Other numbers could be other attack states
Thing_Sprite(tid, sprite): Causes a thing with the tid of tid to change its sprite to the string, sprite. Example:
Thing_Sprite(49, "HEADA") would cause all things of 49 tid to look like a cacodemon. Angles still behave normally.

Those are the only machinama related feature requests i can think of, so please comment and Randy, can you consider putting these in .64 or .65?

Curunir · Post by **Curunir** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:38 am

Not to be a pest, but I believe it's spelled "machinima". I thought you typo-ed it the first time

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:52 am

Well, it does seem to be called machinima, but I think it should be machinema (machine cinema). Machinima just has too many i's. However, machinama is definitely wrong.

Curunir · Post by **Curunir** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:43 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima \o/

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:50 pm

Still too many i's IMO

Although Doom gets a mention in the article, so it can't be all bad.

Post by **NiGHTMARE** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:38 pm

It may not have gone by a different name, but machinima has existed since quite a while before Quake 1. IIRC it's possible to make "movie" in Warcraft 2, which was released in 1995.

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:36 am

Did you read the wiki?

Thing_WalkTo:
use Thing_SetGoal or ActorMover

Thing_Attack:
use Thing_Hate

Thing_Sprite:
use SetMarineSprite (can be applied only on ScriptedMarines)

Post by **NiGHTMARE** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:48 am

Did you read his post?

Thing_SetGoal wouldn't work for his purposes because creatures using it react if shot. He wants to be able to ignore such things.

It sounds like he wants Thing_Attack to instantly set off a single attack, whereas Thing_Hate has the creature make multiple attacks (i.e. until the target is dead), and only if the target is visible and within range. Even then the Thing_Hate creature may wander around a little bit before setting off an attack.

He wants to Thing_Sprite to be able to change ANY creature, not just scripted marines.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:07 am

hey I had this idea. I was thinking of a movie sorta like Dog soilders. But i'm not 1337 enough.

I'd like to see some done though

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:45 am

cutmanmike wrote:Dog soilders

David Ferstat · Post by **David Ferstat** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:10 pm

I could have done without that image.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:27 pm

wow, some functions like these would sure be nice for my cutscenes

David Ferstat · Post by **David Ferstat** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:54 am

Stop talking about functions!

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:12 pm

*Wondering when Randy will notice this topic*

Curinir! That is a great topic in the Wiki! Did you make it? Even if you didn't make it you should still be rewarded for noticing that!

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:14 pm

Heh. Just noticed something about that Wiki page. It's not on the ZDooM wiki