In the need for a script (monstercount & tid)

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 12:44 pm

Well, hello again girls and boys,
I'm working still on my surprise map and I need a script for that.

The ACS-Script should count all things with a thing-id of "x" and display this count via HUDMESSAGE on the upper right of the screen (in grey if possible). As soon as monster count is = 0, another script should start and the hudmessage disappear.

Can someone write this for me and also documentate it so I can understand how it works?

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:31 pm

OK, so I don't know much about scripting, but I'm willing to learn. I do most of my stuff by "copy and paste" of other people's stuff. This will be wrong simply because I have done it off the top of my head. I'd appreciate someone looking through it and telling me what I would need to make it work seeing as how I have just made it up, and I'm sure it won't work as it is.

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int moncount;

script 1 (void)
{
    
    while (thingcount (0, 123))    
        { 
         moncount = (thingcount (0, 157));
         hudmessage (s:moncount;	
         HUDMSG_PLAIN, 1, CR_GRAY, 1.0, 0.0, 0);  
         delay (1);
        }
	    
    hudmessage (s:" ";	
    HUDMSG_PLAIN, 1, CR_GRAY, 1.0, 0.0, 0);
}

so, this is what I am trying to do...

int moncount; a variable that will be used to put in the message

while (thingcount (0, 123)) whilst there are at least 1 of things with tid 123 do the bit in {} brackets

moncount = (thingcount (0, 157)); sets the variable to be the same as the thingcount value

hudmessage (s:moncount; HUDMSG_PLAIN, 1, CR_GRAY, 1.0, 0.0, 0); I think this should print the monster count in the way asked as a hudmessage with an id of 1.

delay (1); a short delay before restarting (do I actually need a restart command?)

hudmessage (s:" "; HUDMSG_PLAIN, 1, CR_GRAY, 1.0, 0.0, 0); The stuff that happens after thingcount reaches 0 - in this case a message with the same id as before to cancel out the original.

OK folks, rip it apart.

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:38 pm

Oh yeah, and in case it is useful, a guy who used to be called Tarin

posted some useful stuff about Hudmessage ages ago on Doomworld. Here it is...

hudmessage(string; type, id, color, x-coord, y-coord, time [, speed] [, fadetime]);

string is the displayed text (like s:"hello world"). You can concatenate several
strings by seperating them with commas (like s:"hello ", s:"world"). Note that you
have to add a semi-colon (';') after the last string).

type defines how the text is "written" onto the screen. It can be 0 (displayed as
with print), 1 (text fades) or 2 (letters are written after each other). Or just
use the defines listed below.

id is a unique number for the hudmessage. So you can have several different messages
at the same time and they will still work fine without interfering with each other.

color is the color (duh) of the text. Can be 0 to 10. The possible colours are listed
below.

x-coord and y-coord are the position of the text relative to the screen border.

0.0/0.0 is the top left edge of the screen,

1.0/1.0 is the bottom right edge of the screen.

So if you wanted a text to be displayed in the center you'd use

0.5/0.5 for x and y coords. Using negative number will change how the text is aligned,
but I'm not sure how that works.

time simply says how long (in seconds) the text will be displayed.
Use 0 to display it forever.

speed is optional. It defines how long it takes (in seconds) to write a single letter.
0.05 seems to be a good value.

fadetime is optional too. It defines how long it takes (in seconds) the text
to completely fade.

Colours:

CR_UNTRANSLATED -1
CR_BRICK 0
CR_TAN 1
CR_GRAY 2
CR_GREY 2
CR_GREEN 3
CR_BROWN 4
CR_GOLD 5
CR_RED 6
CR_BLUE 7
CR_ORANGE 8
CR_WHITE 9
CR_YELLOW 10

Style

HUDMSG_PLAIN 0
HUDMSG_FADEOUT 1
HUDMSG_TYPEON 2

Additional info from Randy

If I remember correctly, a negative X coordinate will position the left edge of the message
and a negative Y coordinate will position the top edge of the message.

To get a hudmessage logged at the console:

The zdefs.acs that comes with ACC 1.28 has it

#defined as HUDMSG_LOG,

so now you can use HUDMSG_PLAIN | HUDMSG_LOG as your hud message type.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:09 pm

Thx alot for this Enjay

Seems like I have to to again one special "Thx to Enjay" part in my next .txt file

BTW, I won't test it until someone has taken a look

The Ultimate DooMer · Post by **The Ultimate DooMer** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:28 pm

Enjay wrote: delay (1); a short delay before restarting (do I actually need a restart command?)

Nope, you don't need a restart command - as long as the script is activated in some way, it will work without one. But there still needs to be a delay between those last 2 close brackets.

Post by **randi** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:44 pm

In your hudmessage, you have s:moncount. That should be i:moncount because you're printing a number (i is for integer) and not a string.

Post by **Enjay** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 5:56 am

Thanks for the info. And if all I got wrong was that one error, I'm even quite impressed with myself. OK, so it's not a script to set the world on fire, but hey, It's the first one with any level of complexity that I have typed from scratch without looking at someone elses.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 7:18 am

Just one problem with the script: The displayed number of monsters is always zero

("0"). This is my script:

script 11 (void)
{
while (thingcount (0, 9)) //things have tid 9
{
moncount = (thingcount (0, 157));
hudmessage (i:moncount; HUDMSG_PLAIN, 1, CR_GRAY, 1.0, 0.0, 0);
delay (1);
}
hudmessage (s:"Well Done, soldier!";
HUDMSG_PLAIN, 1, CR_GRAY, 1.0, 0.0, 0);
}

Any errors?

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 7:45 am

Sure, you appear to be counting things of TID 157 in
moncount = (thingcount (0, 157));

Shouldn't you be counting things of TID 9?

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:16 am

Exactly, it was my fault.

Just one more question: I'd like to display "Monsters left: x" instead of just displaying the number "x" in the left corner. How to do?

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:24 am

Sounds like you never did any ACS...thu I think there is some in TNT[123]

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print(s:"Monsters left: "; d:i);

Post by **Enjay** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:10 am

Tormentor667 wrote:Exactly, it was my fault.

He he, no it was my fault.

Look back to my original example. My "while" is looking at things with tid 123, and moncount is looking at 157. Must've had a brain power outage or something whilst typing.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:10 am

Thx, I have taken a look at tnt2 and found a scirpt

cccp_leha · Post by **cccp_leha** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:37 am

Hirogen2 wrote:Sounds like you never did any ACS...thu I think there is some in TNT[123]
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print(s:"Monsters left: "; d:i);

Do you really seperate stuff in hudmsg or print by a semicolon? I thought you would use (it would make more sense to use) a comma...