"How do I ZScript?"

[Matt]

What's the ZScript equivalent to DrawSelectedInventory? (i.e., no bar, instantly use the moment you hit the use item key)
EDIT: add "cplayer.inventorytics=0;" so that the inventory bar popup lifetime is always zero so you never have to wait.

Also is there any sort of list of all the various status bar commands?

[Graf Zahl]

Is there a way I can use TexMan.CheckForTexture to determine if a sky texture has been defined in a PWAD versus the IWAD? A bit more context on what I'm trying to do here. I notice there are lots of settings you can pass in for the second and third arguments for CheckForTexture (such as TEX_FirstDefined, TEXMAN_Overridable etc) and it's not clear from looking at the FTextureManager source code what they all do.

No. This is a very fishy thing anyway. Consider two TEXTUREx lumps, both defining SKY1 the same way. It then will report it as a PWAD texture but it's only so because originally these lumps were not cumulative.

[ZzZombo]

Eh, wrong destination, Graf.

[Nash]

Eh, wrong destination, Graf.

What's so wrong about that post? JPL asked the question in this thread and Graf's answering the question in this thread.

[Blue Shadow]

What's the ZScript equivalent to DrawSelectedInventory? (i.e., no bar, instantly use the moment you hit the use item key)

Also is there any sort of list of all the various status bar commands?

I don't think there's one, but this (https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom/blo ... r.txt#L156) block of code, for instance, handles that.

As for your other question, check the base status bar class: https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom/blo ... tusbar.txt

[Matt]

:/

That's what I was using just before I asked... this still requires you to hit the use key twice before the item is actually used.

I'll keep looking in the source code to see how DrawSelectedInventory works... (unless I'm totally off base and the single-tap use was enabled by some other thing I did outside of SBARINFO)

[Pink Baron]

Is it possible to have "A_RadiusGive" deliver an inventory item with some of its variables already defined, without resorting to ThinkerIterator and stuff? (For example, give enemies an item with caller PlayerNum as a var)

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Tried with different methods, most common error is like "Cannot convert ClassPointer<Inventory> to Pointer<Class<Object>>"...damn "let" keyword I've read bunch of tutorials and still don't know how to use you...

Also, is it possible to alter ammo capacity via ZScript only, as looking around I didn't find anything about it?

[Blue Shadow]

Also, is it possible to alter ammo capacity via ZScript only, as looking around I didn't find anything about it?

This might do it:

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let blah = FindInventory(<ammoitem>);

if(blah != null)
{
    blah.MaxAmount += 3; // Increase the capacity by 3.
} 

[Pink Baron]

This might do it:

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let blah = FindInventory(<ammoitem>);

if(blah != null)
{
    blah.MaxAmount += 3; // Increase the capacity by 3.
} 

Didn't know can directly edit ammo like that, thanks!

Sill no clue about passing "custom" items to actors in a radius...guess it's time to use that damn Thinker...

[Silentdarkness12]

I am considering trying to remake my godawful HUD in ZScript, but I do need to ask first, in it's current state, is ZScript capable of doing all the important things with a hud, that could normally be done in SBARINFO? Conditional draws, querying inventory, cvars, so on and so forth?

[Blue Shadow]

Speaking from experience, I would say yes.

[Silentdarkness12]

Alright, so I just need to.............somehow.......gain a basic understanding of ZScript.

I still have no idea where to start, even after looking up the GZDoom pk3 and the ZDoom wiki....

[Matt]

I think Graf might have has solved the one major blocker preventing me from upgrading HD's HUD to ZScript, so...

[Pink Baron]

Hi again!

Is it possible (for bookeeping purposes and such) to declare a multi-dimensional constant string array via ZScript, akin to ACSes?

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str SomeNames[6][2] = {				 // ACS array, works just fine
	{"NiceName1",	"EvilName1"},
	{"NiceName2",	"EvilName2"},
	{"NiceName3",	"EvilName3"},
	{"NiceName4",	"EvilName4"},
	{"NiceName5",	"EvilName5"},
	{"NiceName6",	"EvilName6"},
};

static const String SomeNames[] = 	// This mono-sized array inside an anonymous function works, too
{	
	"NiceName1",
	"NiceName2",
	"NiceName3",
	"NiceName4",
	"NiceName5",
	"NiceName6"
};

static const String SomeNames[] = 	// This one does not
{ 
	{"NiceName1",	"EvilName1"},
	{"NiceName2",	"EvilName2"},
	{"NiceName3",	"EvilName3"},
	{"NiceName4",	"EvilName4"},
	{"NiceName5",	"EvilName5"},
	{"NiceName6",	"EvilName6"}
};

What I did wrong? .-.

[Rip and Tear]

Is it okay to override PostBeginPlay() on an actor without calling Super.PostBeginPlay()? What kind of issues would it cause, if any?

Edit: The Super is just inheriting from actor.