I want blood drops to disappear on the water

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Recently I released Beautiful Doom 4.7. And still I can't find a way to make blooddrops disappear on liquid surfaces. The code of the blooddrops looks like this:

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actor BloodDrop
{
+MISSILE
+NOBLOCKMAP
+DROPOFF
+NOTELEPORT
+FORCEXYBILLBOARD
+NOTDMATCH
-NOGRAVITY
radius 1
height 1
mass 1
damage 0
scale 0.7
gravity .7
speed 3
deathsound "gibs/blooddrop"
renderstyle TRANSLUCENT
alpha 1.0
decal BloodSplat
states
	{
	spawn:
		BLOD ABCDEF 1 A_FadeOut(0.01) // this way it disappears if it's falling down a long pit, to save memory
		wait
	death:
		TNT1 A 0
		TNT1 A 0 A_Scream
		TNT1 A 1 A_ChangeFlag("CORPSE",1) // this way it disappears if it hits a wall, without showing splash sequence
		wait
	crash: // the splash sequence is shown here when hitting the floor
		TNT1 A 0
		TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(WaterLevel > 0, 7) // tried to use this, but seems like it only works on deep water, not on terrain water
		TNT1 A 0 A_ChangeFlag("NOBLOCKMAP",0)
		TNT1 A 0 A_Jump(128,2,3,4)
		BSPT A -1
		stop
		BSPT B -1
		stop
		BSPT C -1
		stop
		BSPT D -1
		stop
		TNT1 A 1
		stop
	}
}

How do I make it disappear on liquid surfaces without making it a bouncing projectile?

[Dark-Assassin]

try the flag

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+EXPLODEONWATER

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Tried before that. It's not something that could help. +EXPLODEONWATER used on usual projectiles calls the same state which is called when hitting floor, i.e. either Death or Crash. It actually only works on bouncing projectiles which usually disappear on the water, but with this flag they enter their Death state instead. So no, it's not that.

[Gez]

For terrain-based water, just give it a floorclip at least at tall as the graphics. That will hide it completely.

For swimmable water (Boom or 3D floor), you can use an [wiki]A_JumpIf[/wiki]([wiki=DECORATE expressions]waterlevel > 0[/wiki], "Disappear") instruction in its Death state, with a Disappear state that's something like TNT1 A 0 followed by Stop so it removes the actor.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Man, could you PLEASE read the question before giving an answer? I already have jump with waterlevel check and I know what it does work for and what it doesn't. As for floorclip, I have a projectile, not a decorative object and not a monsters, +FLOORCLIP doesn't work on them, because projectiles don't stand on the floor.

[NeuralStunner]

So don't make it a projectile. Use [wiki]A_CheckFloor[/wiki] instead.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Are you implying that A_CheckFloor doesn't consider water floor as floor? Anyway, though, to recommend me to make it not a projectile is not a very good advice. For many, many reasons. But in short, it'd result in losing a lot of other important features of this blood.

Hey, developers! Do you still think that +VANISHONWATER flag is a bad idea?

[NeuralStunner]

Are you implying that A_CheckFloor doesn't consider water floor as floor?

No. All flats are "floors". This is only meant as a way to check floor collision without being a missile.

If you'd rather have noisy splashes, try increasing the Mass of the blood actors to about 100 or so.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Ah, you see, the splashes are not the issue. Their calling is not connected to what I want. I want the blood drops to VANISH whey they hit water. Objects call splashes when they hit water, but that doesn't mean they vanish in this case. So for now bloodrops do call splashes, but they stay on the water. The only kind of projectiles that vanish when hitting the water in present (G)ZDoom are bouncing projectiles.

[XutaWoo]

You could make them bounce, and then give them a bounce count of 0.

[SFJake]

This is the nashgore blood..

Touching any liquid it splashes and disappears.

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actor NashGore_FlyingBlood
{
 game Doom
 scale 0.75
 health 1
 radius 8
 height 1
 mass 1
 +CORPSE
 +NOTELEPORT
 +NOBLOCKMAP
 states
 {
 Spawn:
  TNT1 A 0 A_CheckSight("Cheap")
  FBLD A 1 A_SpawnItem("NashGore_FlyingBloodTrail",0,0,0,1)
  FBLD A 1 A_JumpIf(waterlevel > 1, "Remove")
  loop
 Cheap:
  FBLD A 8 A_SpawnItem("NashGore_FlyingBloodTrail",0,0,0,1)
  FBLD A 1 A_JumpIf(waterlevel > 1, "Remove")
  loop
 Crash:
  TNT1 A 1 A_SpawnItem("NashGore_BloodSpot",0,0,0,1)
  stop
   Remove: // Anti-Lag - Removes blood in water.
      NULL A 0 
        stop
 }
}

[Dark-Assassin]

actually, it doesnt with me.
all the splash gibs, don't but all the rest are bouncing.