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I'm trying to spruce up Mario Doom from a visual replacement to a full gameplay mod.
Trying to add a tracer to Super Shotgun replacement, FirePiranha breaks stuff:
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I have no idea why would GZDoom expect a comma for the string name. From what I understand, what is supposed to go here is just name of the missile actor spawned for the tracer. I used that with no problems at all for the Shotgun replacement and it works great.
Trying to figure out this stuff, I decided to do what it asks me to, and put in "," for the string name, silly as it sounds.
It parses this line just fine, but then:
I'm getting an even more bizarre error:
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Line 73 is... inside of a comment. Here's my full Decorate file:
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ACTOR ShotgunSeed // tracer I'm currently trying to use and I use it in shotgun replacement with zero problems.
{
Game Doom
Radius 6
Height 8
Speed 100
FastSpeed 100
Damage 0
Projectile
+BLOODLESSIMPACT
+RANDOMIZE
States
{
Spawn:
PLSE D 4 bright
loop
Death:
PLSE E 6 bright
stop
}
}
ACTOR ShotgunFire : ShotgunSeed
{
States
{
Spawn:
BAL1 A 1 bright
BAL1 B 1 bright
loop
Death:
BAL7 C 6 bright
stop
}
}
ACTOR PiranhaPlant : Shotgun
replaces Shotgun
{
Weapon.SlotNumber 3
States
{
Fire:
SHTG A 3
SHTG A 7
{
A_StartSound("weapons/shotgf", CHAN_WEAPON, CHANF_DEFAULT, 1.0);
A_GunFlash;
A_FireBullets (5.6, 0, 7, 5, "BulletPuff", FBF_USEAMMO, 8192, "ShotgunSeed", 14, 0);
}
SHTG BC 5
SHTG D 4
SHTG CB 5
SHTG A 3
SHTG A 7 A_ReFire
Goto Ready
}
}
ACTOR FirePiranha : SuperShotgun
replaces SuperShotgun
{
Weapon.SlotNumber 3
States
{
Fire:
SHT2 A 3
{
A_StartSound("weapons/sshotf", CHAN_WEAPON, CHANF_DEFAULT, 1.0);
A_GunFlash;
A_FireBullets (11.2, 7.1, 20, 5, "BulletPuff, FBF_USEAMMO, 8192, ",", 14, 0); // originally, "," was "ShotgunSeed" which brought up the original error.
}
//SHT2 A 0 A_StartSound ("weapons/sshotf", CHAN_WEAPON) <<< that's line 73
//SHT2 A 7 A_GunFlash
//SHT2 A 0 A_FireBullets (11.2, 7.1, 20, 5, "BulletPuff, FBF_USEAMMO, 8192, "ShotgunSeed", 14, 0)
SHT2 B 7
SHT2 C 7 A_CheckReload
SHT2 D 7 A_OpenShotgun2
SHT2 E 7
SHT2 F 7 A_LoadShotgun2
SHT2 G 6
SHT2 H 6 A_CloseShotgun2
SHT2 A 5 A_ReFire
Goto Ready
}
}
I don't understand why GZdoom is even parsing strings inside comment tags. That hints to me something is seriously screwed up, or more likely, I screwed up something really bad.
You forgot to close the string after "BulletPuff, which makes the following lines be treated as a string until the next closing quote, which is why GZDoom threw an error regarding ShotgunSeed.
