[Not a bug] Dehacked: Blur spheres give me green armor

[EarthQuake]

What you can do in DEHACKED is edit the text for the associated sprite number to point to another graphic though. I did that once a long time ago to remap the blue armor sprite (ARM2) to the green armor sprite (ARM1) (that way I could translate it and the green armor into brown leather armor and the blue armor into gray metal armor instead). You could do that to turn the blur sphere spite (PINS) to any sprite you want, just go in the sprites menu in dehacked and change the text offset, or failing that, the text menu and change the text that references the sprite it’s self. I have no idea how well this works with ZDoom, but it worked in vanilla doom great. It may be easier to use decorate subclass the blur sphere and replace it’s frames though.

I just tried both of what you suggested. WhackEd doesn't allow you to change sprite offsets, so I started up dehacked on my other computer and made me a patch, but when I ran it in zdoom, nothing happened at all. The blur sphere was just that, a blur sphere. Also, when I changed the text offset to point to the armor, the behavior is the same as my first two attempts.

So... this means the only way to do what I want is to replace the blur sphere sprites with green armor sprites. It's the only way.

I just had a scary thought.. what if some demonic force wanted to torture me by not letting my sprite replacements work?

[Killo Zapit]

If changing the offsets doesn't work try altering the actual text it's self. I know for sure that that does work.

[EarthQuake]

Nope

[Killo Zapit]

Oops, I guess your right. Well it worked in the original at least.

[Cutmanmike]

Yes, this is the problem me and hotwax had with CTC. It took us ages to figure out how to make the red key.... err... I mean chicken move

[Anakin S.]

Make sprite lumps named rkeya1, rkeya2a8, rkeya3a7, rkeya4a6, rkeya5, and so on in your wadfile and load the chicken images to those frames. It's only the sprite family names that matter in picking up items, so rkeyc, rkeyd, rkeye, and so on would work just as well as pickups as would rkeya and rkeyb.

[HotWax]

And would move just as fast.

[Anakin S.]

Why wouldn't it move? I would think that the chicken would only need some speed and A_Chase in its walking frames. And if you had a few frames in dehacked set aside for the chicken, then you would only need to change the sprite family to rkey.