A_Teleport

[DavidPH]

A_Teleport(state teleportstate = "Teleport", string targettype = "BossSpot", string fogtype = "TeleportFog", int flags = 0, float mindist = 128, float maxdist = 0)

Attempts to teleport the actor to a SpecialSpot-derived actor that is at least mindist away and at most maxdist away. If maxdist is 0, no limit. If successful, an actor of type fogtype is spawned at the old location and calling actor is placed in the state indicated by teleportstate.

Note that despite requiring an actor at the target location, this function can be used in a monster without a specially prepared field. It should be possible, for instance, for that monster to drop SpecialSpot-derived actors around (possibly with a timed life) to teleport to later.

TF_TELEFRAG - Allow telefrag in order to teleport.
TF_RANDOMDECIDE - Randomly fail to teleport like A_Srcr2Decide.

EDIT: Removed TF_TELEPORTSOUND because it was terrible and wrong. I think TF_RANDOMDECIDE is justified, in that it's based on health in a non-linear fashion which is both useful and non-trivial to do in DECORATE.

[Major Cooke]

You are like a fuckin' GENIUS!

Please include this.

DavidPH for a cacoward plz.

[DavidPH]

I thought you would like this one.

[Graf Zahl]

The sound implementation is rather bad. Better pass a sound name as parameter instead of hard coding to the default teleport sound.

[DavidPH]

Like I said, I only added the sound flag for completeness. Since you can play a sound from fogtype and in teleportstate, adding sound parameters would be redundant without being any more convenient. If the flag gets removed if the function is implemented, that would be fine.

Basically, the implementation is really bad because it's for a very obscure use. In retrospect, it was probably a case of, "Right, I can perfectly emulate the original... except for the sound. ...What will one more flag hurt?"

On the other hand, I certainly could add a sound parameter if you (or Randy) thinks it would be a good idea.

[Graf Zahl]

Either do it right or don't do it at all. Such half-assed features are not necessary.

[DavidPH]

Right. I'm going to drop the flag, since it's so blatantly useless the more I think about it. I added it right at the end, and should have stopped and asked myself, "How does this benefit the user?" I apologize for forgetting such an important step in development. Oh, and I thank you for pointing it out. Otherwise I may have faced a terrible fate: constantly being reminded of how much of an idiot I was adding that flag.

[ZDG]

Good coding!

[Shadelight]

Has a Devoloper noticed this at all?

[ZDG]

Graf, of course, he's nearly on every of his CSF threads.

[Gez]

Has a Devoloper noticed this at all?

Look up three and five posts above yours.

[Graf Zahl]

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