ZDoom Wiki Thread

[NeuralStunner]

Nothing untoward so far, didn't even log me out. I've yet to edit anything (as I don't often ).

Liking the new chart-like look on pages such as [wiki=Action_specials]Action Specials[/wiki].

[Gez]

Seems to work okay so far.

Also I want to thank Aeo for having started documenting some Strife functions.

[cq75]

[wiki]Player_SetTeam[/wiki] uses TEAM_READ as an ENUM for the player's team... shouldn't that be TEAM_RED, or do I need to update my skulltag compiler?

EDIT - Nope, it's definitely supposed to be TEAM_RED. Changin'.

[NeuralStunner]

[wiki]Player_SetTeam[/wiki]

A case of "good idea, bad implementation" if ever I saw one. Having 2 as "no team" locks out any chance of extensibility, without having something silly like "add 1 to any team number after red".

[cq75]

True, if you wanted to do something like 4 way CTF, you'd probably have to hard code it.

[Mikk-]

Also I want to thank Aeo for having started documenting some Strife functions.

I don't check this thread as often as I should, but thanks Gez.
Yes, I'm Aeo, I just decided to use an alternate nickname for the Wiki.

[Blzut3]

A case of "good idea, bad implementation" if ever I saw one. Having 2 as "no team" locks out any chance of extensibility, without having something silly like "add 1 to any team number after red".

Actually I'm fairly sure NO_TEAM is actually any invalid team number. Using 2 would only work if there are only 2 teams.

Edit: Actually, looking at the Skulltag source, there's no way to set NO_TEAM using that function.

[NeuralStunner]

So the wiki page is incorrect / out of date?

[Blzut3]

Taking another look I was a little wrong. The wiki is still outdated, but here's how it works. It checks the input to see if it's a valid team. A valid team is anywhere between 0 and sv_maxteams (so 2, 3, 4). The teams are 0 = Blue, 1 = Red, 2 = Green, 3 = Gold. NO_TEAM is whatever the value of sv_maxteams is.

[NeuralStunner]

Ah. So, using 255 for "no team" wouldn't work? (IIRC that's what ZDoom uses for No Team...)

[Blzut3]

Not currently.

[NeuralStunner]

Would it be simple enough to add? If so, would it require an official request thread over at ST?

[Xaser]

Or -1... though if it's an 8-bit value, it'd be the same thing.

[FDARI]

I wonder if (DECORATE)[wiki]A_Teleport[/wiki] might have some undocumented|incorrectly described features. I am thinking specifically of default jump states:

This is the wiki's description of "teleportstate": The state in which the actor go after teleporting. Use "" to prevent a state jump. By default, no jump is made.
I will show relevant excerpts from a decorate script that went into an infinite loop:

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Teleport:
  TNT1 A 0 A_GiveToTarget("ArchviletrickTargetTeleDest", 1)
  TNT1 A 0 A_Teleport("TeleportArrival", "ArchvileTeleportToTarget", "ArchVileTeleportToTarget", 5)
  VILE IJKLMN 8 BRIGHT
  goto See

TeleportArrival:
  TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfTargetInLOS("Attack") // Verify that you arrived at a point where you can see the target
  // If this point is reached, the target was not in sight; return to original location, hopefully. And go to SEE-state.
  VILE I 8 BRIGHT A_FaceTarget
//TNT1 A 0 A_Teleport("See", "ArchvileTeleportToTarget", "ArchVileResurrectionEnactor", 5)
  TNT1 A 0 A_Teleport("", "ArchvileTeleportToTarget", "ArchVileResurrectionEnactor", 5)
  goto See

For the second teleport I use "" as teleportstate. When this teleportation happens, the calling actor jumps to the beginning of teleport again (I inserted A_Log-codepointers at the beginning of each state to track progress. Removed for readability.)

I tested two solutions to my problem, both working. 1: Use "See" as teleportstate. 2: Rename the state in my DECORATE (I called it TTeleport, and that solved the issue). Does anybody else have any experiences with A_Teleport, or know something that is not in the WIKI? If you wish to test on your own I can send some more complete code.

[DavidPH]

I don't know why the wiki says that, since the default behavior is to jump to "Teleport", and passing "" invokes the default. If you want it to not go anywhere, you can pass 1. (There are certain circumstances where this may not do what you want, though. (See [wiki]A_Jump[/wiki].))

EDIT: As a side note, if the requested state can't be found, then no teleport is attempted (first it will look for Teleport, though). In retrospect, I'm not entirely sure if that's a good or bad thing.