A_SpawnItemEx help

[LilWhiteMouse]

I'm doing something wrong and I have no idea what. The first actor is supposed to spawn four of the second, one at each compass point of the parent. Seemed simple enough, but it's not working as expected, they all spawn at the same location. I'm sure I'm making a newb mistake, but I have no idea what. Who wants to point out the obvious?

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ACTOR TekStation
{
	States
	{
	Spawn:
		TEKS A 0
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", -32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 180)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 0, 32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 90)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 0, -32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 270)
		TEKS AA -1
		Stop
	}
}

ACTOR TekStationConsole
{
	Scale 0.66
	States
	{
	Spawn:
		TEKP AA -1
		Stop
	}
}

[NeuralStunner]

The angle is not only passed to the spawned actor, but relative to the spawner. You're specifying both angles and X/Y offsets, so they're sort of cancelling each other out. This should do it:

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		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 90)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 180)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 270)

(Make the 32s negative if you want hem to face inward.)

Or, if you want them all to face the same angle as the parent (or any angle, so long as it's the same in every call):

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		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", -32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 0, 32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
		TEKS A 0 A_SpawnItemEx ("TekStationConsole", 0, -32, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

Also, though not earthshaking, this should have only one A:

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		TEKS AA -1

[DoomRater]

It's slowly becoming customary to provide a blank state of zero length (even though that wasn't the case here!) that was understood as "nothing can happen on this state due to other things occurring in the Thing". The code is likely a remnant of that.

[Gez]

It's slowly becoming customary to provide a blank state of zero length (even though that wasn't the case here!) that was understood as "nothing can happen on this state due to other things occurring in the Thing". The code is likely a remnant of that.

That's only for the first state of the Spawn sequence. And either way, with AA -1, the second state is never reached, since the first A -1 is never left.

It isn't harmful in any way, it cannot provoke bugs or whatever. It's just a state that is never reached but that doesn't need to be reached.

[Xaser]

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ACTOR SuperImp : DoomImp replaces DoomImp
{
	Health 120
	Speed 16
	States
	{
	See:
		TROO ABCD 1 A_Chase
		Loop
	Death:
		MISL BCD 4 A_Explode(128,128,0)
		Stop
	WADBloat:
		MISL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 0 A_Explode(0,0,0)
		SSWV ABCDEFGHIJABCDEFGHIJABCDEFGHIJABCDEFGHIJ 1 A_SpawnItemEx("SuperImp",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
		BEXP A 1 BRIGHT
		BEXP C 1
		BEXP A 1 BRIGHT
		BEXP C 1
		BEXP A 1 BRIGHT
		BEXP C 1
		BEXP A 1 BRIGHT
		BEXP CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 1
		Goto WADBloat
	}
}

[NeuralStunner]

"Super" Imp? Only if he carries an SSG. (Needs 20 lines of [wiki]A_CustomBulletAttack[/wiki]! With [wiki]A_FaceTarget[/wiki] in between each one!)

I left all the zeroes in because, of course, that's the Angle parameter waaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there.

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And I might have kinda forgot to cut them out.