ZDoom

Rachael wrote: That is - if Graf is okay with that idea.

Please stop thinking like that.

It's really hacky. I think a far better way to do player resurrection would've been to just call G_DoReborn with the flags allowing the player to spawn in the same spot, instead of the way it currently operates. G_DoReborn gives the player a fresh new body and leaves their old one behind as decoration.

In fact, it wouldn't be much trouble probably to split off the body creation and reassignment to a new function which could be exposed to the console, and possibly to ACS and ZScript. That is - if Graf is okay with that idea. In this idea, I would of course force G_DoReborn to call the new function and the new function would have flags based on what it wants to do (i.e. where to spawn the new player, etc).

With that in mind, how hacky is the resurrect command, then? I only know that it can't be used when the player is decapitated (Hexen).

There will never be player resurrection without some ridiculous reworking of the system Nash. Sorry.

This doesn't work on players.
https://zdoom.org/wiki/RaiseActor

Does this gracefully handle player resurrection?

Thanks.

You should be able to, now.

Was added in 3.7.0 as RaiseActor().

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Edit: Oops! Looks like I can't select the closed feature suggestions forum as a move-to target.

So I just had to fix a really screwy bug that would have been totally avoidable had I not had to temporarily set an actor's master.

Meanwhile, trying to do the same thing with Thing_Raise lets me do this with one less line (since I can say "Thing_Raise(pointer.tid)", but friendliness cannot be transferred.

Won't work in ZScript, or at least without some circumlocution I can't remember off the top of my head.

EDIT: Temporarily setting a TID for the pointer. Which would require backing up the pointer's current TID, resulting in about the same number of lines of code as temporarily setting a master.

Potential DIY? I mean, you can use <actor pointer>.Thing_Raise(0) - unless a dedicated function would be more robust.

Like A_RaiseMaster but for any ZScript actor pointer.