The "How do I..." Thread

[cocka]

Look at Blue Shadow's post and click on the link there and look for APROP_Health.

[CeeJay]

How do I...

Fix this

The suit of armour is a PNG image, there is nothing wrong with the image itself but in-game ZDoom seems to try and convert it automatically to the Doom palette which results in it looking like that (the greens are supposed to be of various shades of cyan). How do I "tell" ZDoom to display it as it is?

[mallo]

How do I...

Fix this

The suit of armour is a PNG image, there is nothing wrong with the image itself but in-game ZDoom seems to try and convert it automatically to the Doom palette which results in it looking like that (the greens are supposed to be of various shades of cyan). How do I "tell" ZDoom to display it as it is?

Convert it all to grayscale except for shield. That's how WolfenDoom and even Doom 2 did.

how do i make my sprites transparent? I've made so many of them for a mod i'm planning, but i cannot get them to appear transparent in SLADE. i have followed the GunLabs tutorial by wild weasel, although it never appears transparent.

Does the sprite in-game appears invisible?

Select your graphic in SLADE3, select "convert to", choose your format of choice and select background color at the bottom, it'll be transparent.

[Gez]

The suit of armour is a PNG image, there is nothing wrong with the image itself but in-game ZDoom seems to try and convert it automatically to the Doom palette which results in it looking like that (the greens are supposed to be of various shades of cyan). How do I "tell" ZDoom to display it as it is?

The software renderer is bound to the palette. It is absolutely incapable of rendering colors outside of palette. (HUD sprites and interface graphics are a different matter, they aren't drawn by the software renderer, but drawn over the renderer's output.)

You can:
1. Use a custom palette where your various shades of cyan are included, but that'll mean sacrificing other colors so it's some other graphic that may look wrong.
2. Use GZDoom.
3. Hope that Randy resumes working on the truecolor rendering code.

[mallo]

I already gave him a good solution. ]

[Ghostbreed]

Don't feel bad :'((

[mallo]

I FEEL VERY BAD I'M GOING TO DIEEEE

I'm sorry.

[Ghostbreed]

AHH THIS IZ BAD!

[CaptainToenail]

How do I generate a random integer as a variable with ACS?

I tried this but it does not compile.

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int pitTag = Random(8, 11);

[cocka]

Did you try this version?

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int pitTag;
pitTag = Random(8, 11);

Anyway, use the lastest version of ACC. It can compile that line.

[CaptainToenail]

Is the latest acc154?

I extracted that into the zdoom compiler folder of Doombuilder2 - still will not compile. Gives me an invalid declarator error.

[Warhawk]

I'm planning to make nightmare versions of other demons like the Nightmare Demon/Spectre in PSX Doom. How do I do this? I heard its simple to do in GIMP.

[mallo]

You mean translucent? Use Alpha and/or RenderStyle.

[Warhawk]

I mean like this:

[Master_Moose]

how do i make my sprites transparent? I've made so many of them for a mod i'm planning, but i cannot get them to appear transparent in SLADE. i have followed the GunLabs tutorial by wild weasel, although it never appears transparent.

I have addressed to the situation. i solved it by leaving the back round color white and using SLADE'S "convert to..." feature. now i can finally start this mod!