ZDoom

Just so this isn't forgotten. I understand priorities are currently elsewhere so this is just here as a reminder, seeing as Actor now has the path cleared.

If you don't mind me asking; what stopped the progress on this feature? In a related discussion over six months ago, Graf said he was "almost done exporting PlayerPawn which is the last remaining blocker for allowing user-side extends of class Actor" (source).

The blocker is that the compiler cannot combine parts of different translation units without screwing things up badly.

Different translation units?

Graf Zahl wrote:compiler screwing things up badly

Like how, for example? Actor class, defined in gzdoom pack, definition turns into mess from code from all files?

Major Cooke wrote:Different translation units?

Roughly speaking, single zscript file is a single translation unit which gzdoom translate (turn text in it to bytecode) using magic. Different translation units -> different zscript files.
I dont know how exactly zscript compiler work, but I think it translate each file separately and then combine it into one single file, which cause conflicts between "extended" and "default" actors.