{WIP}Death Vally

[The_Bladed_One]

Hello. I have just recently made an account and stared my own wad. I have run into a problem rather early, When I start the game the screen stays at the titlepic and plays level one music. I cannot find any thing wrong with the DECORATE. If anybody has any interest in helping me fix this problem I would be very thankful. Here is the link to my maybe 13% mod.

[Blue Shadow]

The problem is in the weapons code. Take a look at the Rifle's code:

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actor Rifle : Weapon
{
Inventory.PickupMessage "You got the rifle."
weapon.ammogive1 0
weapon.ammotype1 "Clip"
weapon.ammouse1 1
weapon.selectionorder 400
Obituary "%o was shot by %k's Rifle."
states
{
Select:
AK58 A 0 A_Raise // 0-tic duration with a loop here...
loop
Deselect:
AK58 A 0 A_Lower // here...
loop
Ready:
AK58 A 0  // and here. Also, A_WeaponReady is missing
loop
Fire:
AK5F B 0 A_FireCustomMissile ("Bullet")
AK5F A 0
AK58 A 0
Goto Ready
Spawn:
AKAK A -1
stop
}
}

You gave all the frames a 0-tic duration and some states have loops with those 0-tic duration which will result in an infinite loop(I guess thats what it's called) and crashing the engine.

Now to fix:

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actor Rifle : Weapon
{
Inventory.PickupMessage "You got the rifle."
weapon.ammogive1 0
weapon.ammotype1 "Clip"
weapon.ammouse1 1
weapon.selectionorder 400
Obituary "%o was shot by %k's Rifle."
states
{
Select:
AK58 A 1 A_Raise  // put at least 1 tic here...
loop
Deselect:
AK58 A 1 A_Lower  // here...
loop
Ready:
AK58 A 1 A_WeaponReady // and here
loop
Fire:
AK5F B 1 A_FireCustomMissile ("Bullet")
AK5F A 1
AK58 A 1
Goto Ready
Spawn:
AKAK A -1
stop
}
}

The other weapon suffers from this, as well.

If you need some basic info about creating weapons, check the Gun Lab by WildWeasel.

[The_Bladed_One]

Oh, Thanks a lot I've never really understood decorate too well. Thank you for the help.

[NeuralStunner]

Great Decorate weapon turorials here: http://gunlabs.blogspot.com/ Find the first one and read them in order.

[The_Bladed_One]

Yeah, I just saved that page to my favorites.

[The_Bladed_One]

The sprites for the guns will be realm 667 edits and maybe some custom sprites, idk.

[wildweasel]

The sprites for the guns will be realm 667 edits and maybe some custom sprites, idk.

It shouldn't be a problem as long as you really put some effort into making the guns "your own" - don't just use the same animations provided in the weapons, for example. Goof around with the offsets and sound effects, make it unique among weapons that use those graphics. =P

[The_Bladed_One]

I've actually decided i'm going to use Eriance's weapons tutorial for most of the weapons but i'll keep in mind thank you.

[wildweasel]

I've actually decided i'm going to use Eriance's weapons tutorial for most of the weapons but i'll keep in mind thank you.

Good choice - I wish you luck, sir.

[Amuscaria]

I'm afraid that tutorial is still a long ways away. However, kudos to you for making your own stuff.

[The_Bladed_One]

Thank you.

[The_Bladed_One]

Update: I have decided I will use more of a cartoon graphical style. With only about 2 shades per color