ZDoom

You can move the code in the FloorSpark "Active" state to an override for the Activate function ( override void Activate(Actor activator) ) instead of in the sprite states Okay, so here's a potential can of worms. That works great (and thank you), but I took things a step further and commented out ...

Thanks! I also found that I needed to move the comments to the Default block to get it working. I also found Vec3Offset for calculating coordinates.

To teach myself ZScript I decided to create a particle effect which was infeasible back in the Decorate/ACS days: streaky looking sparks. This does everything I need it to do, what I'm asking for is optimization help. Am I doing anything obviously stupid due to my very incomplete understanding of ...

I know I can make a looped script that checks for that CVAR continuously but AFAIK it can be a bit expensive to run a check like that every tick... As programmer I can appreciate an utter sense of complete austerity when it comes to managing resources. My understanding of ACS tells me, though, that ...

General facts I thought I knew about Graf Zahl:

• He's a programmer.
• He's German.
• He ain't afraid of no ghosts.

You could make your max amount 100 and simply take inventory at the correct interval and amount to get your desired duration. For example, if you wanted to remove 1% every second you'd take 1 item every 35 tics. While this alone wouldn't display the percentage denoted with a percentage sign (there ...

Why is the string system like that? Because that is how Raven Software saw fit to handle strings in the development of ACS for Hexen, evidently . Even in its very original state ACS vastly elevated game play over what was possible through standard Doom maps. Why can't it be like actual strings or ...

To add to what Hellser has said, if you think a piece of code is difficult to read you can always document it in the form of /*comments*/.

Thanks for the help!

So for clarity, it's a simple matter of adding an A_Jump call at the end of all parent class states which should lead to the overwritten state in the child class?

So an issue I'm having with extending a base class seems to be that state jump calls (specifically Goto in this case or having one state feed into the next) inside a parent class resolve to the specific state in the parent class. If the child class has overwritten this state, it is ignored. Example ...

The latter. And thanks for the tips. I'll have to check out SLADE again.

Hiya, I'm solar. I've recently taken an interest in ZDoom modding once again. It's been some years since I've been an active member here and I can see that things have been trucking right along since then. I'd like to get brought up to speed. So if you'll indulge me for a moment, I've got some ...

Ah snap! I had poured over the ACS list but for whatever reason it hadn't occurred to me that those functions would have changed (or will be changing) since the last time I played with them.

Man, it really has been a while.

In that very specific example, yes. I wasn't aware of this new script type when I wrote that. Be that as it may, that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't any value in being able to poll an actor's special/arguments.