ZDoom

About the custom bullets... how would be the default Pistol, Shotgun, Super Shotgun and Chaingun default actions wrote in A_FireCustomBullets(a,b,c,d,e) format?

And fot the Punch and the Chainsaw in A_CustomPunch?

[quote="Daniel"]Hi! I had some ideas to improve the great Graf Zahl Christimas coding, maybe you'll like it, if this could be possible to add without any problem.

NEW ACTIONS (CODEPOINTERS)

A_ChangeActorFlags (flags) -> where (flags) can be (+ISMONSTER, +CANPASS, +QUICKTORETALIATE for example). This action could open huge new possibilities to the game. Some examples: you can make a monster that suddenly goes to fly, an object that becomes pickable, a monster that turns invisible (partially), a monster that changes its attacking characteristics...

A_NullChase -> the monster will chase the player without the chance of attacking him
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Don't worry, both will be eventually be done. But with several months between versions it is not that easy.

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ACTOR PROPERTIES

Instead of using the flags +MISSILEMORE or +MISSILEEVENMORE, how about make a variable for the actors like this:

AttackingChance (number) -> where Number could be between 0 and 255, and it will work as similar as PainChance, but just for Missile.
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If it was that easy. The attack calculations use a complicated formula with uses distance, a random number and some clipping value (MinMissileChance) do decide whether to attack or not. Unfortunately it can't be simply expressed in a single number.

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We also have the Spawn, See, Missile, Melee, etc. states. How about to add a stat called "FriendlyMissile" and "FriendlyMelee", just for the friendly monsters? Not a good idea, but not that bad.
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What's the point in that? I really see no use in it.

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INVENTORY

I didn't understand how the "Minotaur" kind works, so I thought about make a Inventory class called "Summon". It spawns an object in front of the player when used. The object can be defined in a new inventory line:

Inventory.ActorSpawn "name of the actor"
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If I find a way to add a customizable activation sequence to a pickup item it will become quite easy. You have to wait until then.


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HEALTH

How about add Health pickup benefits that improves the health limit, like the Adrenaline in Quake 2? It could have this line:

Health.AddDefault (number) -> where a number of +10 or +15 improves the health limit by 10 or 15 points, and a number of 120 means that the default health will be set at 120 points.
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You could use Strife's UpgradeStamina item which is exactly that albeit with a fixed value of 10 per pickup.

Hi! I had some ideas to improve the great Graf Zahl Christimas coding, maybe you'll like it, if this could be possible to add without any problem.

NEW ACTIONS (CODEPOINTERS)

A_ChangeActorFlags (flags) -> where (flags) can be (+ISMONSTER, +CANPASS, +QUICKTORETALIATE for example). This action could open huge new possibilities to the game. Some examples: you can make a monster that suddenly goes to fly, an object that becomes pickable, a monster that turns invisible (partially), a monster that changes its attacking characteristics...

A_NullChase -> the monster will chase the player without the chance of attacking him

ACTOR PROPERTIES

Instead of using the flags +MISSILEMORE or +MISSILEEVENMORE, how about make a variable for the actors like this:

AttackingChance (number) -> where Number could be between 0 and 255, and it will work as similar as PainChance, but just for Missile.

We also have the Spawn, See, Missile, Melee, etc. states. How about to add a stat called "FriendlyMissile" and "FriendlyMelee", just for the friendly monsters? Not a good idea, but not that bad.

INVENTORY

I didn't understand how the "Minotaur" kind works, so I thought about make a Inventory class called "Summon". It spawns an object in front of the player when used. The object can be defined in a new inventory line:

Inventory.ActorSpawn "name of the actor"

HEALTH

How about add Health pickup benefits that improves the health limit, like the Adrenaline in Quake 2? It could have this line:

Health.AddDefault (number) -> where a number of +10 or +15 improves the health limit by 10 or 15 points, and a number of 120 means that the default health will be set at 120 points.

So that's it. Just some ideas I had.