Animation when objects were picked up?!

[Tormentor667]

Well, I tried something today and it just doesn't seem to work somehow, but take a look at the code before:

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actor ScoreDiamond : CustomInventory 31099
{
  inventory.pickupmessage "Blood Diamond"
  inventory.pickupsound "S_BONUS"
  +COUNTITEM
  +NOGRAVITY
  +FLOATBOB
  states
  {
  Spawn:
    DIAM A -1
    stop
  Pickup:
    DIAM B 2 ACS_ExecuteAlways(704, 0, 0)
    DIAM C 2
    DIAM D 2
    DIAM E 2
    DIAM F 2
    TNT0 A -1
    stop
  }
}

It's actually a Diamond pickup that should play a "Death Animation" when it gets picked up but unfortunately it simply disappears after dying, so I think it's an engine limitation conc. that code. So, is there any other way how to do this?

[Ryan Cordell]

Unfortunately, one of them is to use A_SpawnItemEx or such, but that'll have it's own set of stupid problems too.

EDIT: And geez, shorten the DIAM frames to DIAM CDEF 2.

[Cutmanmike]

Pickups are picked up and removed so only the first line will be used. The only way is to spawn something where it was.

[Ryan Cordell]

I tried something akin to that; It spawned at the player's position instead.

[CaptainToenail]

Don't the Heretic items do this? How does that work?

[Enjay]

Don't the Heretic items do this? How does that work?

You mean the blue flash when you pick something up? That's a specific actor called "PickupFlash" which gets spawned when the item gets picked up.

[Tormentor667]

So can you emulate this somehow in Doom for certain items?

[Enjay]

There is this actor flag

+INVENTORY.PICKUPFLASH

and that certainly works to spawn the flash for inventory items. All you need to do is provide the graphics (ACLOA0-E0 from Heretic or Hexen.wad). Or you could replace the PickupFlash actor via your decorate.

[Tormentor667]

Thx, that helps

[Ryan Cordell]

There is this actor flag

+INVENTORY.PICKUPFLASH

and that certainly works to spawn the flash for inventory items. All you need to do is provide the graphics (ACLOA0-E0 from Heretic or Hexen.wad). Or you could replace the PickupFlash actor via your decorate.

Would be much better to be able to have custom frames and such for disappearing pickups. I don't want to be limited to only using Heretic's darn artiflash.

[Ichor]

How about if the item was a normal thing that can't be picked up, but dies when something touches it? The item would then be added to the inventory using decorate instead of as a pickup.

[Cutmanmike]

Would be much better to be able to have custom frames and such for disappearing pickups. I don't want to be limited to only using Heretic's darn artiflash.

Quite. Request it Imagine having some crazy sparkle effects spawn around you when you pick stuff up? That would be a nice touch.

[Enjay]

Of course, you can "replace" the PickupFlash with any actor you care to define - but it would be a universal change for all actors that use PickupFlash.

[Tormentor667]

Which state do I have to alter for the animation? The "Death" state?

[Enjay]

For the PicupFlash? Just the spawn state I think. It appears, goes through its animation then disappears again. Must just be a spawn thing.

Edit:

Yeah, this is all it has in the source as far as I can see:

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// Pickup flash -------------------------------------------------------------

class APickupFlash : public AActor
{
	DECLARE_ACTOR (APickupFlash, AActor)
};

FState APickupFlash::States[] =
{
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'D',    3, NULL                         , &States[1]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'C',    3, NULL                         , &States[2]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'D',    3, NULL                         , &States[3]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'C',    3, NULL                         , &States[4]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'B',    3, NULL                         , &States[5]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'C',    3, NULL                         , &States[6]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'B',    3, NULL                         , &States[7]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'A',    3, NULL                         , &States[8]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'B',    3, NULL                         , &States[9]),
	S_NORMAL (ACLO, 'A',    3, NULL                         , NULL)
};

IMPLEMENT_ACTOR (APickupFlash, Raven, -1, 0)
	PROP_SpawnState (0)
	PROP_Flags (MF_NOGRAVITY)
END_DEFAULTS