ZDoom

Gez wrote:Could we get a mapinfo flag for that?

Something to mark a map as being made for modern ZDoom and to use correct spawning code without compatibility hacks.

choppers = true; // ... Doesn't suck.

Graf Zahl wrote:It's not possible to make the code foolproof. Item spawning upon map load is quite broken but this has to be preserved for compatibility. But you can't copy that brokenness everywhere.

Graf Zahl wrote:It's not possible to make the code foolproof. Item spawning upon map load is quite broken but this has to be preserved for compatibility. But you can't copy that brokenness everywhere.

Graf Zahl wrote:Crash fixed.

As for the 'incorrect' item respawning the code says this:

// Do not reappear under the floor, even if that's where we were for the initial spawn.


I think the bottom line is that you just can't expect every conceivable situation to result in a perfect respawn. Twist a system too much and it will break - and this test map is full of such things.

randy wrote:Although now that I think about it, you should probably add 3D midtextures to your tests. They've gone unrepresented in these tests and just been assumed to work if 3D floors work.

• thingz_spawnrespawn_06.wad

• Barrels and monsters fall through midtextures upon spawn, but respawn on the tallest one.
• Items and weapons respawn with the wrong z height. You can see that the chaingun and health bonus actors have their z position shifted down a few map units after respawning.