A_RaiseDead(actor corpse, int flags)

[Matt]

Like A_RaiseMaster but for any ZScript actor pointer.

[Mikk-]

Potential DIY? I mean, you can use <actor pointer>.Thing_Raise(0) - unless a dedicated function would be more robust.

[Matt]

Won't work in ZScript, or at least without some circumlocution I can't remember off the top of my head.

EDIT: Temporarily setting a TID for the pointer. Which would require backing up the pointer's current TID, resulting in about the same number of lines of code as temporarily setting a master.

[Matt]

So I just had to fix a really screwy bug that would have been totally avoidable had I not had to temporarily set an actor's master.

Meanwhile, trying to do the same thing with Thing_Raise lets me do this with one less line (since I can say "Thing_Raise(pointer.tid)", but friendliness cannot be transferred.

[Blue Shadow]

Was added in 3.7.0 as RaiseActor().

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Edit: Oops! Looks like I can't select the closed feature suggestions forum as a move-to target.

[Rachael]

You should be able to, now.

[Blue Shadow]

Thanks.

[Nash]

Does this gracefully handle player resurrection?

[Blue Shadow]

This doesn't work on players.
https://zdoom.org/wiki/RaiseActor

[Major Cooke]

There will never be player resurrection without some ridiculous reworking of the system Nash. Sorry.

[Xeotroid]

With that in mind, how hacky is the resurrect command, then? I only know that it can't be used when the player is decapitated (Hexen).

[Rachael]

It's really hacky. I think a far better way to do player resurrection would've been to just call G_DoReborn with the flags allowing the player to spawn in the same spot, instead of the way it currently operates. G_DoReborn gives the player a fresh new body and leaves their old one behind as decoration.

In fact, it wouldn't be much trouble probably to split off the body creation and reassignment to a new function which could be exposed to the console, and possibly to ACS and ZScript. That is - if Graf is okay with that idea. In this idea, I would of course force G_DoReborn to call the new function and the new function would have flags based on what it wants to do (i.e. where to spawn the new player, etc).

[Graf Zahl]

That is - if Graf is okay with that idea.

Please stop thinking like that.