[ACS] How to clean a sector's special?

[Ravick]

Hi there.

How can I change a sector's special to none (or to another one) via ACS? I took a look at Generic_Floor and Floor_TransferNumeric, but both ways to do that seems kinda 'hacky'. I mean, in the sense that these functions doen't seem to have be created to do just that. Is there a 'legit' way to take out a special from a sector?

Thanks in advanced.

[Tormentor667]

Depending on the special you could do a workaround with the “Actor enters sector” thing and remove that later.

[MFG38]

I know that for lines, you can do SetLineSpecial(lineid,0) or ClearLineSpecial(). It's admittedly odd that no similar (easy) method exists for changing sector specials.

[Graf Zahl]

Simple answer: You can't. The special gets used to initialize several independent properties. What you have to do depends on what effect you want to clear.

[Ravick]

Thanks, guys.

Simple answer: You can't. The special gets used to initialize several independent properties. What you have to do depends on what effect you want to clear.

Hum... after the initial stuff, could it be changed? I mean, any chances of a suggestion of some "ClearSectorSpecial" get yes'd?

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BTW, what I was aiming was the take out some "Scroll" specials from some sector's floors. But I managed to do it just by raising some 3D floors that 'hide' the original sector's floors.

[Graf Zahl]

See, that's why I was asking.
The damage specials get translated to a sector damage record.
The scrollers get translated to scroller thinkers
The secret bit gets translated to a sector flag.
What's left is the Heretic wind specials and a few special items that remain in the special field for the duration of the level.

To clear a scroller you have to use the Scroll_Floor special - in fact when you want to manipulate a scroller at play time you also should use it to start the scroller instead of using the Hexen sector specials.

[Ravick]

It does indeed sound as more work then it worths, as it would serve almost always just for some aesthetic scripting. And specially if mappers usually will be able to use 'kludges do 'disguise' the sectors, just as I've made with the 3D floors.

I'll keep in mind the tip to use Scroll_Floor when I intent to change it later.

Thanks.