The "How do I..." Thread

[Athel]

Hey, those wait states look foreign to me. That's how you're supposed to do it? I always put loop and itjust works...

[Blue Shadow]

Hey, those wait states look foreign to me.

See [wiki=Actor_states#Flow_control]this[/wiki].

[Athel]

So... this whole time I have used the wrong thing? Or is it that "if it isn't bombing out, I did it right"?

[Toberone]

Hypothetically, let's say I put a bunch of A_WeaponReady's in the ssg's reload states and I switch out. When I switch back, how do I make it so it still have to reload before it fires?

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ACTOR SSG : Weapon
{
 States
 {
 Deselect:
  TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("SSGShellsInShotgun",2,"FullDeselect")
  TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("ReloadOnSelect")
 FullDeselect:
  SSGA A 1 A_Lower
  Wait
 Ready:
  TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("ReloadOnSelect",1,"Reload")
  SSGA A 1 A_WeaponReady
  Wait
 }
}

Thanks for the help, but would I need an actual "magazine" for the ssg for this to work? or could this work with just the ammo pool?

[amv2k9]

Thanks for the help, but would I need an actual "magazine" for the ssg for this to work? or could this work with just the ammo pool?

You'd define a second ammo type. You could do it with inventory items too, I suppose.

[Toberone]

Thanks for the help, but would I need an actual "magazine" for the ssg for this to work? or could this work with just the ammo pool?

You'd define a second ammo type. You could do it with inventory items too, I suppose.

Gotcha, I' think I have an idea now, again thanks for the help.

[Blue Shadow]

So... this whole time I have used the wrong thing? Or is it that "if it isn't bombing out, I did it right"?

Consider these two cases:

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  Select:
    BLAH A 1 A_Raise
    BLAH B 1 A_Raise
    BLAH C 1 A_Raise
    BLAH D 1 A_Raise
    BLAH E 1 A_Raise
    // When "Wait" is called, here, "BLAH E 1 A_Raise" is looped. However, when "Loop" is called, the whole "Select" state is looped from the top.

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  Select:
    BLAH A 1 A_Raise
    // Going by the above, using "Wait" or "Loop", here, would have the same result.

[Nevander]

In Doom Builder 2, how do I change skies? Right now I only see F_SKY1 to choose from and the other Doom II skies are missing from the textures like the burning city and stuff. The map is standard Doom 2 config. At first I thought it was because I was on MAP02 and it uses that particular sky, so I made a new quick test MAP12 (when the sky changes) and it's still F_SKY1. Is there a way to get Doom 1 skies into a Doom II map? Another question is how do I re-align horizontal textures? I know a vertical one you can just move it in visual mode with the arrow keys, but that doesn't work for horizontal textures. I got quite a few that are misaligned.

[TheDarkArchon]

In Doom Builder 2, how do I change skies? Right now I only see F_SKY1 to choose from and the other Doom II skies are missing from the textures like the burning city and stuff. The map is standard Doom 2 config. At first I thought it was because I was on MAP02 and it uses that particular sky, so I made a new quick test MAP12 (when the sky changes) and it's still F_SKY1. Is there a way to get Doom 1 skies into a Doom II map? Another question is how do I re-align horizontal textures? I know a vertical one you can just move it in visual mode with the arrow keys, but that doesn't work for horizontal textures. I got quite a few that are misaligned.

All F_SKY1 does is tell the engine that you want that ceiling/floor to be sky. The sky shown is controlled by MAPINFO.

[Nevander]

All F_SKY1 does is tell the engine that you want that ceiling/floor to be sky. The sky shown is controlled by MAPINFO.

Can this be changed inside Doom Builder or would I need to open the wad in SLADE? I'm new to editing Doom, so to speak. I haven't done anything yet apart from the actual map making so I haven't looked into lump editing yet. I hope it's not complicated because I want to be able to change the map titles, change skies, add text screens after certain levels, merge maps together to make a megawad, and such. Basically like a normal megawad.

[TheDarkArchon]

You'd need to use SLADE for this job.

[Nevander]

You'd need to use SLADE for this job.

Alright thanks. Is there a way to manually re-align horizontal textures though? This is really my last question for now and I should be good for making maps for a while.

[TheDarkArchon]

Yeah, right click on the line in question, open the sidedefs tab and fiddle the numbers from there. Or, from 3D view, highlight the wall and press the arrow keys (Hold shift to do it by 8 pixels a time instead of 1)

[Nevander]

Yeah, right click on the line in question, open the sidedefs tab and fiddle the numbers from there. Or, from 3D view, highlight the wall and press the arrow keys (Hold shift to do it by 8 pixels a time instead of 1)

That's for linedefs or walls. I should probably have said floors and ceilings. This doesn't work for these textures, or sector textures versus linedefs.

[TheMightyHeracross]

You can only change floors and ceilings in UDMF, if I recall correctly.