ZDoom

Thanks for your help everyone. Gez - another workaround to the linedef not showing up correctly on the automap could be to create another teleporter inside of the original one that is a "dummy" teleport. this one would show up on the map and who care where it teleports since you can't get to it ...

so using enjay's method of getactorz does work just fine, but you have to make sure you bit shift. I was at first only able to get one z reading to work right, the one at zero. any other height was not working at all, so then I recalled fixed and grid units and how they are completely different ...

Graf - ya it is a backwards way of going about it, and i'm sure there's a few ways of doing it, but like you say, its a hackjob where it's not absolutely needed...

enjay - yes that would work, but is there a way to make it more flexible? meaning applicable to any map you want to use this on without having to structure your map around the script. that's why I was thinking the custom inventory reading a TID or something from the generator to "transfer/translate ...

Ok, here's my delima: I have a structure with multiple floors using 3d floors. each floor has a teleporter in the middle of the floor. Since using linedefs or actor enter sector things isnt really applicable for this, I thought of having a teleport orb generator thing that A_spawnitemex the orb ...