how to make a thing puckupable with dec

wario · Post by **wario** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:04 am

well i was wondering how u could pick op a thing with decorate

like u can pick up an imp and it gives a bfg (just an example)
how can this be done with decorate ?

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:00 pm

I don't believe it can be done yet.

Costja · Post by **Costja** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:07 pm

You can create pickupable thing with DECORATE and give it necessary special (see here).

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:10 pm

If you use that method, though, you'll need to have an accompanying ACS script to check for the presence of the pickupable thing and give the item accordingly. But Decorate Fake Pickups also cannot act like complex actors (eg. Imps) to my knowledge.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:33 pm

No, but you can inherit from them and give them more complex behavior.

wario · Post by **wario** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:40 pm

well i dint put it that way

what i meant to say was how ot make it pickuable..
well um lemme make a more easy example.
u want to to have a shotgun in heretic
u got the sprites of it and other things..
what decorate u need then ... i tried this as a test but when i picked it up it said unknown gettable thing Shutguntest.. well i tried ACTOR Shotgun : Shotgun but then it says that ths shotgun already exist

sorry that i took a wrong example on the first post

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:15 pm

If you just want Doom's Shotgun in Heretic, spawn the Shotgun with a mapspot and a SpawnSpot script command - you don't need Decorate.

wario · Post by **wario** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:12 am

do i need to make some kind of pesific file in it for it?
since there is a problem.... i dont know to let heretic support slopes and all that kind of things

Sir_Alien · Post by **Sir_Alien** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:45 pm

wario wrote:i dont know to let heretic support slopes and all that kind of things

Are you using Doom Builder? There's an option when you start a new map in the configuration menu called "ZDoom (Heretic in Hexen format)" which allows all the ZDoom features like slopes in Heretic.

bimshwel · Post by **bimshwel** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:15 am

I hate spawnspots. I like to make an object "die" immediately and dropitem whatever the thing I want is. It's inexact, but it has its uses. None of them pertain to this, though. I thought, however, when I started typing this, that they might. But they don't. Good day.

wario · Post by **wario** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:24 am

first about the dropitems.... its a good idea but the weapons dont stay
its meant to be coop not single player

anyways my doombuilder doesnt have heretic in hexen... i think ill redownload it. 1.6 is the latest version right ?

i redownloaded it and it still doesnt have heretic in hexen option

Sir_Alien · Post by **Sir_Alien** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:14 am

1.66 actually. Mine definately has "ZDoom (Heretic in Hexen format)" cause I'm looking at it right now. (Well, obviously not right now, cause I'm typing... But you can imagine...)

In fact, feast your eyes on this:

So check it again.

Now, it could be that for some strange reason you don't have the config file for that particular setup, so grab it below and stick it in your Doom Builder folder.

wario · Post by **wario** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:20 am

hmm it seems i did not have the file
oh well thx for sending it... i hope it will work now

Sir_Alien · Post by **Sir_Alien** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:28 am

wario wrote:hmm it seems i did not have the file

That's weird. It should come with the download, unless perhaps the patch doesn't come with the config files? (???) I dunno, I've always just downloaded the full package...

Oh well, that should solve your problem.

wario · Post by **wario** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:30 am

so how should i spawn the shotgun and ammo then?