How do I start an ACS script from Decorate?

[lukas]

How do I start an ACS script from Decorate? Can it be done with ACS_Execute? Cause I tried and it didn't work D= ...

[chopkinsca]

How do I start an ACS script from Decorate? Can it be done with ACS_Execute? Cause I tried and it didn't work D= ...

It should work. Post your code?

[lukas]

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actor SomeItemOrAnother : PowerupGiver
{
blablabla
  states
  {
  Spawn:
    TNT1 A 5
    loop
  Pickup:
    TNT1 A 5 ACS_Execute(50,0)
     stop
  }
}

This should work, right? But it doesn't...

[lukas]

Maybe it has something to do with the ACS code =S ?

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script 50 (void)
{
 faderange (255, 255, 255,1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3.0);
}

Its for skulltag multiplayer, so maybe Fade is not working for right player...

[Cjk10000]

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actor SomeItemOrAnother : PowerupGiver
{
blablabla
  states
  {
  Spawn:
    TNT1 A 5
    loop
  Pickup:
    TNT1 A 5 faderange (255, 255, 255,1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3.0) // I wonder if this would work?
    //TNT1 A 5 ACS_Execute(50,0)
     stop
  }
}

See coded out part above... I wonder if that can be called?

[chopkinsca]

The monster is the activator so I assume it changes the fade for the monster, which does nothing.

[NeuralStunner]

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 : PowerupGiver

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Pickup:

This will not work. Pickup states are only for [wiki=Classes:CustomInventory]CustomInventory[/wiki].

[lukas]

Cjk10000, thanks I havent thought of that and will try it

chopkinsca, what do you mean monster =/ There is no monster involved.

NeuralStunner, D= then I will have to make a new CustomInventory actor that in its pickup state executes ACS and gives this other PowerupGiver item. So complicated...

Well thanks anyway for replies. I'll try what Stunner and Cjk say and see if it will work.

[Gez]

See coded out part above... I wonder if that can be called?

No.

Only [wiki]action functions[/wiki] (aka codepointers) and [wiki]action specials[/wiki] can be called from DECORATE states. [wiki=Built-in ACS functions]ACS functions[/wiki] cannot.

[lukas]

then I will have to make a new CustomInventory actor that in its pickup state executes ACS and gives this other PowerupGiver item. So complicated..

Tried this, doesnt work =(.
And tried what Cjk10000, but as Gez said - no luck...

[InsanityBringer]

chopkinsca, what do you mean monster =/ There is no monster involved.

the monster is actually just the generic actor. the generic actor is the caller of the script, not the player. Since faderange affects the caller's screen, this doesn't work because not only does the caller not have a screen, it's also not the player.

To fix this, use an ACS script to assign the player a TID, and then use [wiki]SetActivator[/wiki] in your script to that tid

EDIT I NEED TO GO BACK TO LIT CLASS

[Gez]

The caller of a CustomInventory's pickup/use/drop states is the player, or whatever else is picking it up, using it, or dropping it.

[InsanityBringer]

oh.. I'm an idiot with no reading comprehension, sorry

[chopkinsca]

I was tired. When I heard decorate I assumed it was a monster actor. I'm also blind apparently.

[NeuralStunner]

NeuralStunner, D= then I will have to make a new CustomInventory actor that in its pickup state executes ACS and gives this other PowerupGiver item. So complicated...

Yes. And if you think that's overly complicated, Decorate is not for you.