A little help with a summoning monster

[NaturalTvventy]

Greetings Zdoom,

I would like to create a monster that has the power to summon other monsters. basically it will be an archie-looking guy who, instead of frying you when he raises his hands, a flame spawns close to him and out of it pops a monster. I think I'll be able to figure out how to create the spawner, but I don't know how to make it appear near the monster. Can someone help get me started by pointing me in the right direction? And is zdoom smart enough not to spawn stuff in walls or in the void outside of 1-sided linedefs?

Thx,

NT

[Salad Viking]

[wiki]A_SummonItemEx[/wiki]

[wiki=Main_Page]This is your friend[/wiki]

[NaturalTvventy]

I get an error when I try to use A_SummonItemEx. Namely that A_SummonItemEx is an invalid state.

[Virtue]

are you using the latest Zdoom?

[NaturalTvventy]

Yep. A_SpawnItemEx works though

[NeuralStunner]

[wiki]A_SummonItemEx[/wiki]

... Dude, at least make sure your Wiki links go to a valid page.

[NaturalTvventy]

Behold the evil Diabloist, summoner of all manner of cruel hellspawn...

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(edit of realm667's Diabloist)

Man Zdoom and DECORATE is fun to create with! Alas, he does spawn monsters stuck into walls and beyond them in voidspace, but with good level design hopefully the effect will be minimal.

Thx for helping me get started y'alls.

NT

[DBThanatos]

he does spawn monsters stuck into walls and beyond them in voidspace

I had this same issue recently, and the only way to deal with it was this:

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Actor Pawner1    //the summoner fires this projectile
{
	Projectile
	Speed 13
	Radius 20   //this big for it to crash in walls before trying to spawn
	Height 20 
	Damage 0
	RenderStyle None
	+FLOORHUGGER
	States
	{
	Spawn:
		TNT1 a 0 
		TNT1 a 0 A_Jump(200,2,3,4,5) //to randomize how much will it travel before spawning, aka, "how far will the thing spawn"
		PLAY AAAAAAAAAAAAA 1
		TNT1 a 0 A_Stop     //stop the movement of the projectile
	Death:
		PLAY A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Coolfog",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
		PLAY A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("SpawnMonster",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,SXF_TRANSFERPOINTERS)
		PLAY A 1
		Stop
	}
}

Actor SpawnMonster 
{
   Radius 20
   States
   {
   Spawn:
      NULL A 0
      NULL A 1 A_SpawnItem("DoomImp",1)
      Stop
   }
}

The key here is how big the projectile is. With a radius of 20, it makes sure that in whatever it crashes, between the center of the projectile and with what it crashed will be 20 units for the thing to spawn. Kind of hackish, yes, but I couldnt figure a better way.

[NaturalTvventy]

Hackish? more like clever. Thanks for the the idea.