Dynamic Enemy Reinforcements v3

[wallabra]

No, I won't be changing this. (The only change I'm interested in for DER is if someone else figures out a workaround for the GZ engine edge case bug discussed in a prior post.)

Hm, I should have paid more attention to the thread.

I can try helping you with that, though .

By the way, do consider putting your stuff in GitHub so others can fork it and make pull requests too! This honours contribution :)

I always use DER for my gameplay (changing der_chance to accomodate the wide variety of map difficulties) and it's performed just fine on many maps, including some large ones. Reinforcement spawning has always been fluid.

In my many hours of playing with DER, I've only experienced one noticable lag spike in GZDoom, which may have been caused by something else. The most important factor for lagging is the power of your PC. Another factor is other mods you're using and the scripts they run.

I don't mean fluid as in performance; but rather that there is a slight delay between each monster or group spawned, when they spawn, rather than them spawning all at once. Although paying more attention to the spawns, it seems this may already be the case!

Performance is fine. It stutters a tiny little bit when it spawns, but I do use it with GZDoom so maybe that is related. I don't think it is a big deal. I can live with it.

Also, I, too, always use DER! :D

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Ooh, another thought. Maaybe you could add a sanitycheck for whenever maxdistance is smaller than mindistance (which it should never be), which would then resort to using 0 for mindistance instead. Maybe do that for other min/max CVar pairs too. Shouldn't be too difficult. Plus it makes temporarily switching spawns to happen right next to you, for example for debugging purposes, a lot easier!

Then again it's a bit of a niche thing so don't bother too much about it. If I end up feeling the need of it much, I'll do a pull request. Assuming you have gittified your mod by then!

[wallabra]

Another idea I had is that you could have an option that disables spawning them right within the player's line of sight. Would make it feel more natural to have monsters spawn in previously visited areas if they're not, well, still under visit. but don't appear with teleport fog.

Heck, you can also have a middle term, where monsters CAN spawn in LOS, but they don't spawn teleport fog if they're not within the LOS of a player. (If they do, it's so it looks like a random teleport trap/ambush so!)

Those don't sound difficult to implement. But if you don't want, that's fine; after all... I want to try my hand at it!

don't take that out of context pls

[fcas3t]

Gustavo, that's cool you have ideas you want to try. Feel free to make whatever changes you want to the code and share them here on the forum, on Github, or wherever. You won't offend me by sharing your fork.

At this point, I'm content with DER as-is. I also have no desire to test any changes (that someone else makes). So any further changes should be in a fork.

My only request is that if anyone shares their fork on this forum, please do so in a new thread. Then you can post a link to it here in this thread.

[Chairkicker]

think you could make this mod compatible with heretic/hexen/etc.. like AI Director?

[wallabra]

I think this mod isn't being developed anymore. The author has said so in the reply above yours.

I've been cogitating making a fork of it on GitHub. I fear stuffing it with lots of functionality could be a bad idea, you know, "Unix philosophy", small parts where each does its own job well, etc etc. But we'll see how it goes.

[fcas3t]

Just a minor FYI -- in the exclusions portion of the code, I added 4 EVP enemies, because that's the mod I always use. But the ClassNames were all changed at some point, adding underscores. So now "EVPSpectre" is "EVP_Spectre"; same for the others. I mention it because I'm done making changes to DER (as I stated before) so I'm not going to re-upload a new one for this change.

(My EVP is a personal fork of an older version with the old names. I only noticed it because I'd like to try Corruption Cards for the first time and took a quick look at the EVP patch for it, which had the new class names. Then I verified they changed in the latest version of EVP.)

Keep in mind that monster type exclusions are somewhat subjective, so see the 2nd post of this thread for how to add exclusions for vanilla enemies or whatever replacement mod you use.

[.ex.inferis.]

This a really fun mod. I've cracked it open to make it so the reinforcements are chosen from a custom roster, not the current or previous map's rosters. However, that's kind of making my head spin a bit.

There is, however this line:

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Actor m = Actor.Spawn( EnemyRoster[ random( 0, LastRosterIdx ) ],
                               spawnPoint.pos, ALLOW_REPLACE );

If replaced the part of the line that says EnemyRoster[ random( 0, LastRosterIdx ) ] with a customer spawner class, would that do the trick?

[fcas3t]

This a really fun mod. I've cracked it open to make it so the reinforcements are chosen from a custom roster, not the current or previous map's rosters. However, that's kind of making my head spin a bit.

I'm glad you're enjoying it. As far as changing the roster, it depends specifically what you want. Your best bet is posting on the Scripting help forum.

edit: Since you posted on that forum, I responded there with how to make a fixed roster that would be the same for any map. It only requires a few changes to the DER code.

[.ex.inferis.]

Thank you. I will do just that.

[Unregret]

Hello, I really hope this will get an update so spawned enemy will not be counted on map. Can't finish with 100% kill.