Can we manually set the Z-coord of an actor in DECORATE?

[crowbars82]

Hi all!

This one has been puzzling me for a while now. Is there a method to set the Z-coord of an actor so it is sitting a distance above the floor?

I have found that setting the gfx offset of the PNG works, but can we set the actors physical Z so it is 32 above the floor?

After scouring the Actor_flags I can't find anything that might make sense at this stage.

Here is an example of what I would expect the command to be...

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ACTOR FloatingObject 8922
{
	Radius 30
	Height 10
	Scale 1.0
	Z_Height 32 <- something like this?
	+SOLID
	States
	{
	Spawn:
		FLOB A 1 Set_actor_offset(0,0,32) <- or something like this?
		FLOB A -1
		Stop
	}
}

I'm sure someone would have wanted to do this before...

Much thanks everyone!

[krokots]

There is A_Warp. I don't know why it is called like that, but this works as A_SetPosition.

[Graf Zahl]

No, you can't, because an actor's position is solely set through its spawn coordinate, which for map placed actors is specified in the 'thing' record.

[gwHero]

I guess one possibility is with the +NOGRAVITY flag and then keeping the Z coordinate 32 above floor in script with SetOrigin.

[crowbars82]

Thanks all for the suggestions, for what I was trying to do with this I am able to use:

TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("DoomImp", 0, 0, 1000, 0, 0, 0, 0, SXF_NOCHECKPOSITION|SXF_SETTARGET, 0)

which spawns an imp above the player when triggered by an invisible actor.