New actor property: BloodSprite

[Cutmanmike]

Here's some advice: Use models where it makes sense. This doesn't.

Yeah I don't see the point in a bloodsplat model

*insert PWNAGE here*

Oh my that's funny. Awesome idea too nash!

Adding future features into the wiki is nonsense. They can be changed and the info only confuse people.

What page is this? I'd like to make a template to warn people which could be used for many other things.

[Tormentor667]

This is indeed a very clever trick Awesome!

[Nash]

Updated my post with a flag proposal to go along with the property, if it gets added.

[Graf Zahl]

Added. There are 3 actors that can be replaced: Blood, BloodSplatter and AxeBlood. There is one new property:

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BloodType replaceBlood [, replaceBloodSplatter [, replaceAxeBlood]]

If only one type is specified it will be used for all 3 blood actors.
A DONTTRANSLATE flag has been added, too.

[HotWax]

What about a PuffType property?

[Graf Zahl]

Nearly all functions that can spawn puffs already have such a parameter. Puffs depend on the weapon being used, not the object being hit.

[Anakin S.]

But the railgun still uses the default bullet puff when it hits a noblood actor, right? Can that be set too?

So do you use the property by typing this?

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BloodType replaceBloodSplatter "NewBloodSplatter"

@HotWax: Do you mean something like having different hitting sounds for different armor materials, as in Hexen 2 and Warcraft 3?

[Graf Zahl]

Thanks for pointing that out. I added a puff parameter to A_RailAttack and A_CustomRailgun.

[Nash]

Thank you so much, Graf. I was beginning to think this wasn't going to be considered.

EDIT:

Would this be correct?

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actor FlameDemon : Demon
{
BloodType replacesBlood "FlameChunk"
}

[Graf Zahl]

Thank you so much, Graf. I was beginning to think this wasn't going to be considered.

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Would this be correct?

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actor FlameDemon : Demon
{
BloodType replacesBlood "FlameChunk"
}

No. replacesBlood is not a keyword, it's just a placeholder.

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actor FlameDemon : Demon
{
BloodType "FlameChunk"
}

would be correct.

[HotWax]

Question on DONTTRANSLATE:

Is this a flag added for this particular property? i.e. would this work:

BloodType "FlameChunk" "FlameSplatter" DONTTRANSLATE

Or is this a separate flag that goes on its own line? If so, what does it affect?

What page is this? I'd like to make a template to warn people which could be used for many other things.

You can start here.

[Graf Zahl]

It's a real flag that has to be used like all other flags. A_SpawnItem will also not transfer a translation if it is set.

[Nash]

I imagine +DONTTRANSLATE would go to the custom blood actor.

A useful example would be to make a FlameDemon that bleeds yellow without the game engine affecting the flame chunks' translation.

[Graf Zahl]

The default is not to translate the blood anyway. You only need this flag if you are doing something special with the blood that might get affected by translations. This is more likely when replacing Blood globally. As long as you control everything you won't need this flag.

[HotWax]

OK, hopefully I understood that. Please verify that the description on this page is correct:

http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?tit ... _.26_Sound