Cuztomizable Starting Equipment

[chaoscentral]

libraries, and DECORATE, however, you still need to make a map, that incudes the said library. So go read the wiki about libraries, and in decorate use this as an action ACS_Execute(map, script, arg1, arg2, arg3)

[zdoom]

thx for that script. It REALLY helped me add some atmosphere to my level.

As for that guy, you can run any script from another map using ARGUMENTS

[Bio Hazard]

Well, the way I would do it, I would define an ammo type "ExpPoints" and set its max at ~1000000, Duplicate all the monsters to run A_GiveInventory(ExpPoints,x) when they die and set up all the weapons to shoot bigger shots depending on how many "ExpPoints" you have.

Unless monsters can't A_GiveInventory() to the player...

[chaoscentral]

no, the A_GiveInventory() gives the user the item, so it would give the monster the exp

[Phobus]

I don't know about the wad bit but whilst playing around with ACS yesterday I definitely saw something to change things in different maps and stuff. So perhaps you can do the map thing.

[doom2day]

Okay. I'll cry uncle and ask.

I'm trying to make a wad that awards you experience points for kills, like, kill a zombieman, get X points. I'll tie your experience levels to your weapons, so as you get XP, you get better weapons, and the ones you do have power up. I also want this to be a wad you could load up with any wad and just be able to use.

It was easy to make a duplicite zombieman that executes a script giving you XP when you die.

But now I can't figure out how to make sure that said scripts are available.

Is there any way to make a lump that will make scripts that can be activated from any map? Is there any way to do this so it can be done from any wad?

Or higher xp points will increase your firing speed.

[jallamann]

Or higher xp points will increase your firing speed.

That doesn't fit with any kind of even semi-RPG environment.
Agility = speed.
More agility = more speed.

[Belial]

Making Doomguy even faster? OMG!

I wouldn't recommend playing around with player speed. IMO it has too big of an impact on gameplay.

[HobbsTiger1]

I agree with Belial. I'm well adjusted to playing Doom with the set player speeds (running and walking) and adjusting them either way would just throw me.

[BouncyTEM]

I highly approve of this feature suggestion...
although i'll probably see it come to be in 2012. :/
I agre with Belial there, don't mess with the speed, that would throw me off as well.

[DoomRater]

An alternate apporach to the problem- make your EXP points an Inventory item. That way you don't need any ACS scripting for the job at all.

[skadoomer]

ever herd of hquest?

[DoomRater]

Wait.... I forgot. I dunno if altering speed can be done via DECORATE or not. But the other issue, putting EXP into the weapons should be done with a bit of thinking. I was planning on doing something similar.

[chaoscentral]

ANYWAYS... back on topic. I was thinking(thats a first) and I thought, was it possible to just add a flag in DECORATE to just add to weapons, to make it so you start with them like

+STARTEQUIP

or something like that. This seemed like a really good idea at the time, but dont know if it could be implemented or not...

[Graf Zahl]

That's not a good idea because it doesn't take the stock items into consideration. This should either be a separate lump or part of MAPINFO - but not part of DECORATE.