[WIP] GZDoom - Tower of Babel

[Ryan Cordell]

Tower of Babel is a fork of GZDoom, which allows some features that have been declined for fear of modder abuse, also serving as a test bed for new features that may get included in the parent port at some point in the future.

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• Reading cheat status via ACS.
• CheckNextWeapon(str weapon) - using code similar to that of SetWeapon and CheckWeapon, this can be used to check which weapon is being selected.

Several things to note about Tower of Babel before use:

• The source does not idiotproof things such as changing the radius and height of an actor, nor the gun sprite's offset. That issue is to be dealt with the modder.
• The port introduces new ACS features, which involves modifying zdefs.acs.

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Code: Select all

#define APROP_DamageTaken  35
#define APROP_GunOffsetX  36
#define APROP_GunOffsetY  37
#define APROP_Radius  38
#define APROP_Height  39
#define APROP_PainChance  40
#define APROP_DamageType  41

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Decorate:

ACTIONS:
A_SetPropertyInt
A_SetPropertyFixed
A_SetMass (two Parameters to one)
A_CustomPunch (Modified so it doesn't randomize the puff angle)

PROPERTIES:
Unclamped Wall/BounceFactor

ACTOR FLAGS:
+SEEINVISIBLE (An attempt, WIP)
+NOAUTOAIM
+BLASTNOTHURT

FUNCTION FLAGS:
NOIMPACTDAMAGE for A_Blast/A_RadiusThrust


ACS:
APROP_GunOffsetX
APROP_GunOffsetY
APROP_DamageTaken (Only useful for single bullets/projectiles)
APROP_Radius
APROP_Height
APROP_PainChance
TID 0 for Activator for GetActorViewHeight



Miscellanious:
Attempt at relative weapon offsets
Attempt at CheckNextWeapon (WIP)
Restored maximize button
Extended Linetarget Readings (Gives SpawnHealth, PainChance, Radius and Height)
Able to replace the Speed Trail when a player gets a speed powerup.
Save Menus can be disabled (pending change)

Binaries: http://the-tower-of-babel.googlecode.com/svn/
Source: http://the-tower-of-babel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

[NeuralStunner]

[DOOMERO-21]

A_SetHeight(int height)

i really need this........

also you can add a_setpainchance?

[Ryan Cordell]

[Added] A_SetPainChance.

[printz]

Have you actually tried to submit this code to the ZDoom team?

[Ryan Cordell]

There's a reason it's a fork. It'd be auto-no'd on sight. This way, there's at least a chance more flexibility will see the light of day.
GunOffset was already no'd due to something about bobbing being "too dynamic", Radius and Height changes were no'd due to conflict over on what should happen if the actor gets stuck (which is why I leave it to the modders)..

So yeah.

[Nash]

Ryan, do you have any confidence in adding code pointers and/or ACS functions that mess around with 3-d models' roll?

[Ryan Cordell]

.. Not at fricking all. XP;

[Ghastly]

There's a reason it's a fork. It'd be auto-no'd on sight.

Might be a good testing ground to prove that some of these things can actually work.

Radius and Height changes were no'd due to conflict over on what should happen if the actor gets stuck

I agree that that kind of thing should actually be left to modders to solve. It's like saying "I don't think I should implement A_Jump because someone may miscount how many frames to jump." Radius would be trickier to work with, but A_SetHeight could easily be checked, for example, for crouching monsters.

[Nash]

Now I can't decide if I want to use official GZDoom or RCDoom. D:

XD

[DOOMERO-21]

[Added] A_SetPainChance.

thanks a lot!

like this please:

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A_SetPainchance(int chance[, str damagetype])

Assign a new value to painchance.

chance: The new painchance-value
damagetype: Optional; the type of damage this setting applies to.

Values set correspond to painchances defined with the "painchance <int chance>" and "painchance <str type>, <int chance>" properties.

If no property exists for the specified type of damage, the property is added with the specified value. This function cannot remove values once they are added, but can change them again.

[Ghastly]

RCDoom.

/me controls Doom remotely.

[Nash]

I have another suggestion: an ACS version of archivecvar, so that modders can setup their own cvars (useful for high scores, new game+ modes, etc)

[CommanderZ]

I have another suggestion: an ACS version of archivecvar, so that modders can setup their own cvars (useful for high scores, new game+ modes, etc)

You can write CVars in ZDoom? In Skulltag you can use ConsoleCommand for both settting and archiving CVars. You have to pay some attention what is set and saved where though (server vs. client).

[NeuralStunner]

Might be a good testing ground to prove that some of these things can actually work.

Kind of like a consolidated community build, yeah. I just hope it doesn't become a secondary dumping ground for things that really are useless. (Example)

I agree that that kind of thing should actually be left to modders to solve.

Quite so. As long as it's not actually crashing the game, or wiping user options, it's really not going to hurt anything.

In Skulltag you can use ConsoleCommand for both settting and archiving CVars.

That's another interesting point. I still don't understand why that function is completely denied, when you can blacklist commands by default and whitelist the ones that are okay to use. One can already put UnbindAll into an alias then bind a key to it.