The "How do I..." Thread

[TheDarkArchon]

It's DECORATE 101 stuff that I'm surprised hasn't been tried

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blah replaces painelemental
{
  1+1 = 2
  grass = green
  sky = blue
  thisshit = obvious
}

[amv2k9]

How do I change the color of the flash when you pick up items and the flash when you get hurt. For example, Item pickups will make your hud flash blue instead of yellow or being shot makes your hud flash pink.

For pain there's player.damagescreencolor but I haven't the slightest clue about changing pickup flash.

It can be changed "globally" by using [wiki=GameInfo_definition]pickupcolor[/wiki] mapinfo property.

What if you want no flash at all? I 've been making pickup flashes with A_SetFade and I'd rather not have the two overlapping.

[Blue Shadow]

I could be wrong, but I don't think there is a way to disable the [wiki=Palette_flash]palette flash[/wiki] for item pickup, currently.

[Warhawk]

How to palette-swap?

I found a sprite sheet of Duke Nukem 3D weapons. I was looking for red crystal sprites from Expander, but only found the Shrinker's green crystal sprites instead. But on the bottom of the sheet, a text states "pellette-swap to red for Expander" How do I do this?

[Blue Shadow]

Open/load the sprites in SLADE and use the Color Remap tool (from the menu: Graphic --> Color Remap) to change the green bits to red.

[Thel]

How do I do a shotgun with infinite ammo per decorate?

[FireHusky]

I tried it out, nothing, using summon code, just to make sure I needed to not to confuse it with the game actually summoning it specifically, I tried summoning the chainsaw with the new walking animations. Using 'summon chainsaw', it worked? I don't get what is the problem here.

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I even tried out the

actor blah : actor replaces painelemental
{
stuffagain
}

I can't figure it out...

How do I do a shotgun with infinite ammo per decorate?

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actor ShotgunWeaponorwhatever : Shotgun replaces shotgun
{
...stuff
Weapon.Ammouse 0 // <--------- This
}

Be sure to configure the player class so you can select it back...

[ChronoSeth]

EDIT:

I even tried out the

actor blah : actor replaces painelemental
{
stuffagain
}

I can't figure it out...

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Actor blah Replaces PainElemental
{
stuff
}

How much clearer can we make it? You don't have to inherit from an actor to replace another one.

[FireHusky]

EDIT:

I even tried out the

actor blah : actor replaces painelemental
{
stuffagain
}

I can't figure it out...

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Actor blah Replaces PainElemental
{
stuff
}

How much clearer can we make it? You don't have to inherit from an actor to replace another one.

I already tried that, it will not work. Its... Baffeling.

[ChronoSeth]

As wildweasel said, it's not exactly easy to help when you're not giving any useful information.

In what way is it "not working"?

[wildweasel]

As wildweasel said, it's not exactly easy to help when you're not giving any useful information.

In what way is it "not working"?

And please post the code - the entire code - of your monster.

[BloodyAcid]

Name your new actor the old one. It's a dumb way, but it works.

[renaldones]

You don't seem to fully understand what PALVERS offers.

As you already know, ZDoom remaps the colors in an image to match the closest in the available palette, no matter what format the image is in or what colors it uses. When you use an image that uses colors outside the palette (be it 256-paletted or true-color), these don't usually translate well in the software renderer. In other words, ZDoom remapping results aren't always satisfactory. This is where PALVERS comes; it gives you the option to provide a palette-friendly version of that true-color graphic. You get to choose how the graphic's colors render, instead of depending on ZDoom's remapping. And of course, for the best results, you might want to stay within palette restrictions when making the palette-friendly version.

Note that the replacement graphic doesn't have to be something similar but with slightly different color remapping. You can use entirely different design or style.

I guess since it was just a red sky, I never really noticed. But basically though, there's no way to, say, have something purple purple in ZDoom that isn't in the HUD? That blows. Anyway to make the fog in GZDoom look... you know... not terrible? I find myself in this weird trade-off where ZDoom looks way better but only with the DOOM palette, but GZDoom has more versatility, not that I'd ever want to look at it. It feels like I'm comparing Quake ports or something.

As a patch, it's called RSKY1. But as a texture, it's called SKY1. If you place it between TX markers, the graphic is considered a texture. If you place it between P markers, then it's a patch. Multiple patches comprises a texture.

Ooooh, I get it now. That would explain why I keep seeing "multipatch" thrown around on the wiki. I don't think I get why having it between TX markers would mean it won't show up as the sky without a MAPINFO, but I'll remember that.

I'm having this weird graphical glitch in ZDoom, the SVN build from I believe Nov. 19. I've got a sector that's an "underwater passage," and after trying three ways to make it work I ultimately managed to get it to look fine in GZDoom by just using a dummy sector/transfer heights/deep water actor like for normal water (which I didn't do initially because I thought it would mess up the 3D floor, so I tried some other things first), but ZDoom does this thing where it stretches the upper side texture facing you all the way up and down the screen. In this case it's really disorienting because that sector has a drop-down sky ceiling (conceals the room on the other side of the tunnel until you actually swim through it) so I get this solid stripe of that weird mirror effect when there's no texture there.

I know they mentioned some wackiness may be had on the SVN website I got that build from, but I wanted to ask if anyone knows if this is just a problem with that revision or I'm doing something wrong. It looks fine in GZDoom, so I'm not sure what to think.

...I know that's not really a "How do I..." question, but it started as one, and since I've started typing this post I've tested a couple of solutions and this is what I'm left with. Anyways, thanks for everything you guys.

[Sgt. Shivers]

How do I make an actor give something to the player?

[Blue Shadow]

In the desired state of the actor in question, use [wiki]A_GiveInventory[/wiki]:

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A_GiveInventory("TheItem", 1, AAPTR_PLAYER1)