A better way to give an item no pickup message?

[wildweasel]

Okay, I'm working on a new weapon mod. A major part of this weapon mod is that there is a large number of small pickup items that the player can pick up (we'll just call them Points for now, because I'm not quite ready to reveal the mod yet). Because I don't want to flood the console with hundreds of the same pickup message every time one of these little things is collected, I want to get rid of the Inventory.PickupMessage.

Currently I have it like this:

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ACTOR Points : CustomInventory
{
Inventory.PickupMessage ""
+ALWAYSPICKUP
}

This certainly does supress the default "You got a pickup" message, but it still prints a line to the console every time one is picked up (albeit a blank one), and also affects other pickup messages that occur at the same time by inserting a blank line between them. So is there a better way to remove the pickup message?

[DBThanatos]

+INVENTORY.QUIET

That must work

[Ichor]

That just makes it play no sound when it's picked up.

I saw this (about halfway down) a while ago. I've never tried to do that on purpose, but maybe that will work.

[DBThanatos]

That just makes it play no sound when it's picked up...

... and remove the pickup message

Try this

actor thing1 : BlurSphere
{
}
actor thing2 : BlurSphere
{
+inventory.quiet
}

[wildweasel]

This is actually my current code:

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ACTOR SmallStylePoints : CustomInventory
{
	Inventory.PickupMessage ""
	Inventory.PickupSound "items/stylepoints"
	RenderStyle Add
	Scale 0.125
	+INVENTORY.ALWAYSPICKUP
	States
	{
	Spawn:
		EBLL ABCDEFGHIJ 1
		Loop
	Pickup:
		TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("StylePoints",1)
		TNT1 A 0 A_ChangeFlag ("ACTLIKEBRIDGE", 0)
		Stop
	}
}

I actually need the pickup sounds, so Inventory.Quiet is not an option at this point...though I just had a thought, so I'll test out my theory first.

[edit] And yes, the theory does work out...if you want no pickup messages, but a pickup sound, do something like this:

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ACTOR SmallStylePoints : CustomInventory
{
	RenderStyle Add
	Scale 0.125
	+INVENTORY.ALWAYSPICKUP
	+Inventory.Quiet
	States
	{
	Spawn:
		EBLL ABCDEFGHIJ 1
		Loop
	Pickup:
		TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySoundEx("items/stylepoints","SoundSlot7")
		TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("StylePoints",1)
		TNT1 A 0 A_ChangeFlag ("ACTLIKEBRIDGE", 0)
		Stop
	}
}

[DBThanatos]

Im shooting in the dark, but can you play a sound in the Pickup state? that'd do it (i guess )

[wildweasel]

Im shooting in the dark, but can you play a sound in the Pickup state? that'd do it (i guess )

Uh, yeah, apparently that does work - I edited my post with that information at about the same time you posted. Confusing.

[Graf Zahl]

I changed the code so that empty pickup messages are no longer printed. Empty means "", not " " as I have seen on occasion.