Spawning explosions

jobro · Post by **jobro** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:49 pm

How can you spawn just a simple explosion? Say that you have a slkybox depicting a warzone, how do I spawn explosions? And also, can you spawn individual lightpoint that enlightens the environment?

XutaWoo · Post by **XutaWoo** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:39 pm

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actor BossRocket : Rocket
{
  states
  {
  Spawn:
    MISL BC 10 bright
    MISL D 10 bright A_BrainExplode
    stop
  }
}

Yay. This should do it. Just add this into decorate:

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actor Explosion : BossRocket 22222
{
  spawnid 512
}

You can change the SpawnID and DoomEdNum

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:13 pm

Spawn IDs must be between 1 and 255. 512 doesn't work.

XutaWoo · Post by **XutaWoo** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:34 pm

Then make that you can change the DoomEdNum, and you have to change the SpawnID. I'm not a scripter. D=

Post by **edward850** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:57 pm

Graf Zahl wrote:Spawn IDs must be between 1 and 255. 512 doesn't work.

Why the hell did you make it like that anyway?

Zippy · Post by **Zippy** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:12 pm

Well, considering the max is 255, one imagines it is used in spots where only a byte of space is given.

Isle · Post by **Isle** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:14 pm

you dont need a spawn id for spawn()

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:29 am

edward850 wrote:Why the hell did you make it like that anyway?

Thing_Spawn (which uses the spawnid property) is a action special. Action specials can only take bytes as parameters. If you have a problem with that, take it up with Raven.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:33 am

Spawnspot is a much better function anyway.

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:30 pm

HotWax wrote:Action specials can only take bytes as parameters.

You can use full integers for (some of) them in ACS. [wiki]Scroll_Floor[/wiki] and [wiki]Scroll_Ceiling[/wiki] actually benefit from that.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:19 pm

When called from ACS or set via setthingspecial/setlinespecial all parameters are full 32 bit integers. But the spawn ID table has never been extended beyond 256 and never will because all thing_spawn functions have been superseded by versions that can take an actor's class name - and for the few remaining tasks 255 is enough.