Heretic Quirks

[FireCube]

Hello I have two questions about customizing Heretic. I mostly use DECORATE but won't mind zscript

1. When a level ends, every Heretic artifact count in the player's inventory is reset back to 1 instance. I would like to know if its possible to keep multiples of items after a map change, exactly like in Hexen.

2. In Heretic/Hexen, the HUD health number increments and decrements in a smooth transition, in a sort of attempt to make it feel more RPG-like. I wish to get rid of this and have the health count update instantly like in Doom. Where could I modify this?

Thank you!

[Jarewill]

1) You can bypass that in two ways:
- You can either add Inventory.InterHubAmount on every inventory item and set it to the same as MaxAmount, or
- Replace every map's definitions in MAPINFO to add the KeepFullInventory flag to them, but I don't think it's a good idea.
I don't know of any other way that doesn't require completely replacing either all items or all map definitions.

2) You would have to replace the the status bar using either SBARINFO or ZScript.
Heretic's SBARINFO can be found here and you will have to change the interpolatehealth true; at the beginning of the definition to false.
The ZScript status bar is located within gzdoom.pk3/zscript/ui/statusbar/heretic_sbar.zs and you will have to change inthealth in the DrawGem function on line 83 into CPlayer.health to avoid the interpolation.

[FireCube]

1) You can bypass that in two ways:
- You can either add Inventory.InterHubAmount on every inventory item and set it to the same as MaxAmount, or
- Replace every map's definitions in MAPINFO to add the KeepFullInventory flag to them, but I don't think it's a good idea.
I don't know of any other way that doesn't require completely replacing either all items or all map definitions.

2) You would have to replace the the status bar using either SBARINFO or ZScript.
Heretic's SBARINFO can be found here and you will have to change the interpolatehealth true; at the beginning of the definition to false.
The ZScript status bar is located within gzdoom.pk3/zscript/ui/statusbar/heretic_sbar.zs and you will have to change inthealth in the DrawGem function on line 83 into CPlayer.health to avoid the interpolation.

Thank you for your help.

I'll get 1. done eventually

I tried 2. and it works with full bar view, however this appears to break Mini mode http://www.sourceop.com/hell-met/here.png

[Jarewill]

Oh right, with SBARINFO you should specify a base at the beginning when editing base game status bars.
Just add the following line at the very beginning of SBARINFO:

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Base Heretic; 

[FireCube]

Oh right, with SBARINFO you should specify a base at the beginning when editing base game status bars.
Just add the following line at the very beginning of SBARINFO:

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Base Heretic;

Sorry to report back, but putting Base Heretic apparently overrides everything else and turns interpolate back on