Impings - Lemmings in Doom! (Updated first post)

[Cutmanmike]

It's not even bare-bones worthy yet so don't even think about beta testing!

[FuzzballFox]

Well gimme a shout when there is something! D:
I'll be watching you in your sleep...*shot*

[Cutmanmike]

.....SHEESH has anyone ever written something, left it for a while, come back and had NO idea how the hell the code was doing what it was?!

[Ghastly]

When I stopped for a day or two from working on my 3rd-place-winning-in-a-contest Starcraft Brood War map 'Dragon Tamers' (Player vs Player, pokemon-ish battle system that was barely held together), I thought it would never work, when I came back to it, lol.

[Zippy]

.....SHEESH has anyone ever written something, left it for a while, come back and had NO idea how the hell the code was doing what it was?!

Welcome to programming. Being able to work with code that you have no idea how it works is an essential skill.

Also, this is where the //'s and /* */'s come in to play. Woe to you for shoddy coding practices.

[Cutmanmike]

I usually do but I was at a state of no hope for Impings.

[Phobus]

If it works, leave it and hope you don't need to edit it at all

[Cutmanmike]

Well that's the thing, it works to an extent that I need to modify it to make it work properly

[Phobus]

In which case: Good luck!

That is the main downside of complicated code, you mneed to comment extensively to make it useful later in life... something I rarely do. I just do a summary on the right of the script # (void) part as a comment.

[Cutmanmike]

In my case you mean actor imping // comment. I've only used ACS for spawning and counting them (thus far).

[Wills]

Comments are absolutely essential. I like to put silly, stream-of-consciousness comments sprinkled throughout my code, not only to be a little easter egg for anyone going through my scripts but also to remind me what the script is doing. It doesn't always turn out well though...

Code: Select all

(really complicated script) //Son, I'm making... TOAST.

[Cutmanmike]

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... &sk=t&sd=a

^ If this doesn't get added, consider this project DOOOOOOOOOOMED (or delayed until I can think of a SUPER DUPER work around)

[XutaWoo]

Rails DO puff IIRC, although the puffs aren't visible in most cases, like when they touch an actor. I think they are visible when they touch walls, though.

[Cutmanmike]

A_RailAttack seems the only way to specify a custom puff..... and it's for weapons only.

[HotWax]

Out of curiosity, why do you need the railgun to do whatever you're trying to do? Couldn't you use a super-fast projectile or hitscan instead?