New custom CommanderKeen enemy doesn't trigger Tag666 lines?

[lizardcommando]

I made a new enemy that is supposed to replace the Commander Keen enemy, but the doors I tagged do not activate the special Tag 666 line when I kill it. I'm not really sure what I am doing wrong. I thought if I added A_KeenDie to the enemy's death sequence, it should trigger whatever is tagged with the special Tag 666 line.

EDIT: OK, I just tested the custom enemy in MAP32 and that seemed to have worked there... Maybe it's the custom map I am making that doesn't have the doors properly tagged, or maybe the MAPINFO is messed up...

[wildweasel]

Are you tagging a line as 666, or a sector?

[lizardcommando]

I am tagging the sector as 666.

Do I also need to change anything in MAPINFO for the custom map?

[Enjay]

Personally, I never use these built-in actions any more, but it is certainly my understanding that A_KeenDie should work on any map with door sectors tagged 666. I don't *think* it requires anything to be added to MAPINFO like some of the other special actions do.

Of course, that doesn't help track down why it isn't working for you. The obvious things have been suggested so seeing the map and the actor code might be required.

If you are making your own map, and it is in a suitable format, then doing it via ACS is another option (and would also be more flexible).

[lizardcommando]

Here's the MAPINFO stuff I have:

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map MAP01 "Tom Nook's Death Cage 20XX"
cluster 1
sky1 SKY1
forcenoskystretch
music D_RUNNIN
next EndGameC

CyberdemonSpecial
specialaction_opendoor

clusterdef 1
//
flat FLAT1_1
//
exittext
"You killed Tom Nook, but your beloved pet Daisy is nowhere to be found.
What a shame."

Here is the new Keen replacement:

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ACTOR TomNook replaces CommanderKeen
{
  Health 666
  Radius 16
  Height 72
  Mass 10000000
  PainChance 256
  +SOLID
  +SPAWNCEILING
  +NOGRAVITY
  +SHOOTABLE
  +COUNTKILL
  +NOICEDEATH
  +ISMONSTER
  PainSound "grunt/pain"
  DeathSound "tomnook/dead"
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    TNOK A -1
    Loop
  Death:
    TNOK AB 3
    TNOK C 3 A_Scream
    TNOK DEFGH	3
    TNOK I 3
    TNOK J 3
    TNOK K 3 A_KeenDie
    TNOK L -1
    Stop
  Pain:
    TNOK M 4
    TNOK M 8 A_Pain
    Goto Spawn
  }
}

[Enjay]

Well, I don't know if this is what you want to hear or not but it "works for me™".

Using your code, except changing the TNOK sprites to TROO so that I could see them, I made a very simple map, put a commander keen in it and ran it. When I kill the imp hanging from the ceiling, the door opens.

[lizardcommando]

I'm convinced it's the map that I am working on that is messing up. The Tag 666 works fine in MAP32 with my custom Keen replacement. I tagged the sector that needs the Tag 666. Not sure what else I am doing wrong here.

[Blue Shadow]

Post the map/mod, then.

[Gez]

A_KeenDie opens a door. Have you checked for the usual reasons a door would fail? For example, a door raises to the height of the lowest neighboring ceiling, minus 4. So if you have a setup where you have two separate doors that touch, each one will block the others -- you'll actually see the door plunging slightly deeper as instead of being at height 0, it'll go to height -4...

[lizardcommando]

Ok, I think it was basically what Gez was saying was the issue. I thought A_KeenDie would work if you use it for doors and platforms. I had set the floor height and ceiling height both to 0 instead of 128. It seems to be working now.