"How do I ZScript?"

[Nash]

Major Cooke: Okay thanks, I'll have a read and see what I can learn.

Ohhhhh right, I missed the error part. I guess it's a bug in GZDoom. Left should work on readonly strings, since IIRC it returns a new string.

https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom/blo ... e.txt#L640
Same applies to CharAt, CharCodeAt...
This can be fixed by putting const at end of the declarations. Whoever is not lazy to make a PR :)

ZZYZX: I'll make a bug report, thanks.

[ZZYZX]

MC made a PR already

[Major Cooke]

Graf merged it. Try that.

[Matt]

What's the syntax for this GetReplacement thing?

[Major Cooke]

Just the class name.

[Major Cooke]

Is ThrowAbortException a runtime thing that aborts to console or does it prevent start-up? I just noticed it in Object. Could be useful to help guide mods for mods...

[Matt]

Just the class name.

Like GetReplacement("Shotgun")?

[Major Cooke]

Yes.

[Major Cooke]

You'll have to do this with DTA_VitualWidth/DTA_VirtualHeight

Where at in particular should this be done? Because I found another way using SetSize directly, though I get the impression that's the very thing you want us to avoid...

[Graf Zahl]

Post code, then I can tell you.

[Major Cooke]

Code: Select all

SetSize(0, 1024 / 2, 768 / 2);
DrawString(mQ4SmallHudFont, FormatNumber(GetAmountOnly("D4DCash"), 1), (1024 / 2, 24 / 2), DI_TEXT_ALIGN_RIGHT, Font.CR_WHITE);
SetSize(0, 1024, 768);

Doubles the size of the string I want drawn. That gets me the result I want but now I'll have to take into account the new size if I wish to move it. Not good, and clearly a hack IMO.

In particular there may be a time where I'd want it to scale out a little more whenever it updates and shrink back into place (I have a system for detecting those updates ready, it's just the scaling part which will be painful).

[Matt]

Is there a way to:

1. get the line that's right in front of an actor;
2. determine whether it's 2-sided; and
3. determine whether its front side is the one facing the actor?

[Graf Zahl]

Not at the moment. The PathTraverse iterator which would allow you to get such stuff hasn't been exported yet.

2. and 3. are simple flag and position checks on the line, once you have the line you can get the data from it.

[Major Cooke]

Graf: What do you think of my example above?

[ZZYZX]

Is there a way to:

1. get the line that's right in front of an actor;

Manually using BlockLinesIterator