The "How do I..." Thread

[Cansteam]

I have an effect where you walk into a small area with FIREBLU and it blows you to a line where it either
A. teleports you to another area if you dont have 2 parts of a puzzle done
B. lets you through

However, the wind effect wont work.

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script 999 OPEN
{
Sector_SetWind(44,255,270,0);
Sector_SetWind(41,255,90,0);
}

The sectors, if that matters at all

All of the left sectors have tag 44, and all of the right sectors have tag 41.

[DoomKrakken]

I wonder... can one make wind powerful enough to recreate Halo's "mancannons"?

thats what ive been doing for the last six years since the mod was conceived...the issue is that GZDOOM is now renaming my classes. which is exactly why i havent been playing with gzdoom2.0 because...its way too taxing...and it broke half of the mods i frequent.

here is the exact error in the log

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Script warning, "opinhuman2.zip:thecodes.wad:BLOOD2" line 2452:
Tried to define class 'BlueSawBlood' more than once. Renaming class to 'BlueSawBlood@opinhuman2.zip@thecodes.wad@BLOOD2'

Holy cow, now I'm getting the same error...

I don't think there's going to be an easy way to solve this, other than redoing the code completely. Whatever actors you want to inherit from BlueSawBlood will have to be redefined to inherit from your new BlueSawBlood actor.

Sorry, bro.

[Cansteam]

New question, why do sloped 3D floors have to be aligned on the X or Z axis, and how do you make them diagonally?

[Nevander]

What determines what things get glowed bright green by the enhanced night vision mode for GZDoom? Monsters and items seem to get it by default but props do not, is there a way to make a non interactive prop glow too?

[Cansteam]

Could it have to do with having a spawn state?

edit: wait... everything has a spawn state

please ignore me

[DoomKrakken]

I believe there are a bunch of ways that can be achieved... actors have the ISMONSTER/MISSILE flags, or inherit from Inventory...

[Enjay]

New question, why do sloped 3D floors have to be aligned on the X or Z axis, and how do you make them diagonally?

They don't have to be, but making them not aligned to it is trickier because they are almost treated like an extension of the control sector, so your alignment of them has to be done carefully.

I used to have a couple of examples that showed sloped 3D floors at a variety of angles. I can't find them ATM but if I do I'll post them.

[Kappes Buur]

Included are Enjay's examples, which were done the conventional way.

Another example is Greyghost's map. From that you can see that complexity is not far off.

The UDMF way would be using boris's 3D plugin which gives easy control over simple and
multiple floors and sloped 3D floors. Once you master that, complex 3D floors are child's play.
See viewtopic.php?f=44&t=45195

[Enjay]

Thank you kindly, I still hadn't found them.

[edit]
And, for what it's worth, a quick conversion to UDMF.

3DUDMF.zip

I think there might be a third one with more complicated angled 3D slopes if you have it somewhere. I can't find it.
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[Cansteam]

What are the 'argument 1, argument 2, argument 3' arguments in ACS_Execute or line action 80 for? I know argument 1 is if you want something like 'case 1' or 'case 2' but can someone clarify what the other 2 are for?

[ZZYZX]

Whatever you use them for. These get passed to the script, e.g.

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script "something" (int argument1, int argument2, int argument3)

[Cherno]

I'm tryint to implement footstep sounds and I found one solution by another user that utilized ACS along with texture and sound dedinitions in LANGUAGES. It allows to define sounds for walking on different surfaces (per-texure support as well as a default step sound). The sounds are the same for all player classes, though.

What I'd like to have is as follows:

Per player class (or even monster type), I define a couple of different sounds: One default one, one for walking on water and one for walking on snow.

Has something like this been done already? I thought I'd ask before trying to work it out myself from scratch.

[worldendDominator]

I remember seeing some footstep-related ACS in Hard Doom. You can look there if you want.

[jakyle]

how do I edit an existing mod say, weapon wheel, without any mapping or a wad. I just want to update the script in this existing mod to make it compatible with the alpha version of project brutality 3.0. I am using Slade_310_b4 and gdcc_v0.12.0-107-g926eafd_win64 as my compiler. now I know this may be to obtuse of a question but this is just a prime example of hte problem im running into. anytime I try to compile a scripting slade using the latest gdcc compiler, it crashes every time.

[Zan]

Hey all, got two questions:
1) Is is possible to have slow motion in ZDoom by traditional means? (i.e. power ups)
2) How can I make the music tracks only play once instead of looping? (like in Blood for example)