Load specific level from zscript

[Apeirogon]

Is it possible to load specific level from zscript without hacks?
I know how do so using hack, change nextlevel field in level locals to desired and then instantly finish current level, but like I said that a hack.

[Caligari87]

Why do you say that's a hack? I'm happy to be corrected, but to me that sounds like a perfectly fine way of doing it. Not everything needs a dedicated function.

[AFADoomer]

But there already *is* a dedicated internal function to do this... It's just not exposed to ZScript, so there's just no clean and easy way to do the equivalent of the ACS [wiki]ChangeLevel[/wiki] function from ZScript right now.

[Matt]

I'm with Cali on this one, "set next, finish this" just seems fairly normal as far as these things go.

[Apeirogon]

Yes, not everything require its own function. But next level is not a simple integer or some struct, which can be harmlessly accessed and changed directly, without specific function.
It can break hub levels, as example.

[3saster]

AFADoomer has also suggested another idea implicitly. You can call an ACS script from ZScript, and the ACS script called uses ChangeLevel accordingly, to cleanly change the level. In any case, that provides a good case to make a feature suggestion to expose ChangeLevel to ZScript...

[Player701]

To anyone who's going to search for how to change to a specific map from ZScript: there is no need to use ACS anymore, newer devbuilds and the next release (don't ask me when) will have this method available in LevelLocals for direct use. (Hope this was not a useless bump)