[v0.2.1] Stupid Achievements

[f7cjo]

I can't PM, as my account is too young, here is my achievement:

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class ni_departure : sa_Achievement
{
  Default
  {
    sa_Achievement.name "Early Departure";
    sa_Achievement.description "Decide it's not worth it";
    sa_Achievement.borderColor 0xA30000;
    sa_Achievement.boxColor    0xff0000;
  }
}

just a small test achievment.
Here is the ACS line that causes the crash:

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ScriptCall("sa_Achiever", "achieve", "ni_departure");

I load the pk3 file with my achievement after the stupid achievements library. The achievements menu in the settings works fine.

[m8f]

Hmm. What if you change sa_Achiever.achieve signature so it looks like this:

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  static
  void achieve(String achievementClass)
  {
    achievePrivate(achievementClass);
  }

in zscript/StupidAchievement.zs.

One more thing: please replace "sa_" namespace with your own.

[f7cjo]

It works now, thank you for the help.

[m8f]

Version 0.1.1 is up.
Changelog:
- fixed access to achievements from ACS.

[Laskow]

Can you teach me how to replace Imp by monsters? I expected it's very easy if I can use bIsMonster but it didn't work.

[m8f]

Do you mean how to make achievements for other monsters?

You have to add checks for monster classes. Impness is checked here. This function does the following:
1. Check if something has replaced the original imp.
2. Check if this is an imp or it's inherited from imp. ZScript has this handy construction a is "DoomImp", where a is a tested actor, and the class is after is.
3. If any of above is true, consider this thing an Imp.

When you have similar functions for other monsters (or even generalized function which takes checked monster class as a string parameter), you can use them in event functions in EventHandler (the ones with override) and give the corresponding achievements.

[Laskow]

Yes, and for all actors who used the flag "monster".

Thankfully, other monsters achievements works fine now! However, I think it's not going well actually because this code doesn't work by 2 errors:

Unknown class name 'Cultist' of type 'Actor'
Unknown identifier 'isReplacingCultist'

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  private
  bool isCultist(Actor a)
  {
    bool isReplacingCultist = ("Cultist" == Actor.getReplacee(a.getClass())); 
    bool isBasedOnCultist = (a is "Cultist"); 
    return (isReplacingCultist || isBasedOnCultist); 
  }

But this one works without a hitch.

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  private
  bool isCultist(Actor a)
  {
    bool isBasedOnCultist = (a is "Cultist");
    return (isBasedOnCultist); 
  }

Note that the actor "Cultist" is the custom one.

[m8f]

To check for custom classes, which may or not be loaded, you need a trick: put class in a string constant, like this:

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  bool isCultist(Actor a)
  {
    string cultistClass = "Cultist";
    bool isReplacingCultist = (cultistClass == Actor.getReplacee(a.getClass()));
    bool isBasedOnCultist = (a is cultistClass);
    return (isReplacingCultist || isBasedOnCultist);
  }

Again, it would be even better to move classes to function parameters entirely to prevent code duplication, like this:

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  bool isMonsterClass(Actor a, string checkClass)
  {
    bool isReplacing = (checkClass == Actor.getReplacee(a.getClass()));
    bool isBasedOn = (a is checkClass);
    return (isReplacing || isBasedOn);
  }

[Laskow]

Finally it works fine.
Thank you so much for your help! I'm not an expert of ZScript so that was so helpful.

[m8f]

Stupid Achievements updated to v0.2.0. New version has icon support (thanks to Laskow!).

[Laskow]

I made some icons for the Imp achievements. Place these icons in a graphics folder and rewrite a few lines of "ImpAchievements.zs" like this:

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    sa_Achievement.lockedIcon "graphics/sa_Limp1kill.png";
    sa_Achievement.unlockedIcon "graphics/sa_Uimp1kill.png";

ImpAchievements_Icons.zip

(56.58 KiB) Downloaded 44 times

Enjoy!

I'll delete this file if there are any problems.

[IdiotBitz]

Thanks for making this mod. It is pretty nifty, not gonna lie. I really like the new icon support as well. This will be very handy for a project im working on.

There is this one bug I found, though: If you try to save your game while an achievement notification is playing, the save will fail and it will display this message:
"Attempt to save pointer to unhandled type NativeStruct<Font>"

Here's a screenshot of the bug in action:


I was able to fix the bug on my end by doing this:

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I added a "transient" keyword in sa_Task's "mFont", to prevent it from being written to the save file.

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//old code:
  protected Font      mFont;

//new code:
  protected transient Font      mFont;

This fixed the save failing, but since the font is no longer saved to the save file, when you try to load a save file currently displaying an achievement, it will cause a VM abort.
I got around this by making this edit to the "isFinished" function:

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//old code:
    return levelTime > mBirthTime + mAchievement.lifetime;

//new code:
    if ((mAchievement) && (mBirthTime)) {return levelTime > mBirthTime + mAchievement.lifetime;}
    else {return true;}

1 small downside of this fix is that loading a save currently displaying an achievement will not display it upon loading a save. This is purely visual, the achievement itself is still updated like normal.

[m8f]

Thanks for the heads up!

Stupid Achievements updated to v0.2.1.

Changelog:
- fixed saving and loading while achievement is on screen;
- fixed minor icon misalignment.

[XLightningStormL]

Is there a way I can get only one achievement to reset? As in, say a pacifist episode run, if the first level progresses the achievement by one, but in the next level the player kills an enemy the progress of that achievement will reset back to zero.

[m8f]

You will have to edit the code.

1. In sa_Achiever.updateAchievementState, add function parameter isReset:

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     int, int updateAchievementState(readonly<sa_Achievement> achievement, bool isReset)

2. In sa_Achiever.updateAchievementState, add conditional counter reset: instead of

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       ++count;

   Make it

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       if (isReset)
       {
         count = 0;
       }
       else
       {
         ++count;
       }

3. In sa_Achiever.achievePrivate, add function parameter:

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     void achievePrivate(Class<sa_Achievement> achievementClass, bool isReset = false)

4. In sa_Achiever.achievePrivate, pass this parameter to updateAchievementState.

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       [count, state] = updateAchievementState(achievement, isReset);

5. Add public function sa_Achiever.reset:

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     static
     void reset(String achievementClass)
     {
       achievePrivate(achievementClass, true);
     }