Skill/Difficulty Shotgun Global Start

[JagDogger2525]

So, I may have just posted a script version, but I was hoping to have a MAPINFO effect.

It is for an internal package with no maps at all and would like to get some info on how to integrate the script-GameSkill-GiveInventory into MAPINFO.

[Accensus]

You don't necessarily have to have maps to use ACS. Add a script file with either .txt extension or .acs (latter is preferred) in the root folder of the .wad/.pk3 and when you're done compile with SLADE. Don't forget to make a LOADACS file and add the script file's name in there. Without the extension.

[JagDogger2525]

You don't necessarily have to have maps to use ACS. Add a script file with either .txt extension or .acs (latter is preferred) in the root folder of the .wad/.pk3 and when you're done compile with SLADE. Don't forget to make a LOADACS file and add the script file's name in there. Without the extension.

I am trying to figure out how that would look like in SLADE

[JagDogger2525]

How should everything look like?
I am trying to research but I am not sure on how to do everything.

I have in LOADACS:

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#import "Shotgun_Start.acs"
#include "zcommon.acs"

Slade is giving me an error when compiling

[Accensus]

Script file:

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//Let's assume the file is called SOMESCRIPT.acs.
#library "SomeLibraryName"
#include "zcommon.acs"

Script 1 ENTER
{
    if (GameSkill() >= 6) //7 & 8. That's because skills start from 0.
    {
        GiveInventory("Shotgun", 1);
    }
}

LOADACS file:

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SOMESCRIPT

[JagDogger2525]

Script file:

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//Let's assume the file is called SOMESCRIPT.acs.
#library "SomeLibraryName"
#include "zcommon.acs"

Script 1 ENTER
{
    if (GameSkill() >= 6) //7 & 8. That's because skills start from 0.
    {
        GiveInventory("Shotgun", 1);
    }
}

LOADACS file:

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SOMESCRIPT

That makes MORE sense - but I try and compile it and it says:

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Line 1 in file "C:\Program Files (x86)\SLADE\temp\LOADACS.acs" ...
C:\Program Files (x86)\SLADE\temp\LOADACS.acs:1: Invalid declarator.
> Shotgun_Start
>            ^

[Accensus]

You compile the script file, not the LOADACS one. And try to make the names 8 characters long or less. Like, use SHOTSTRT instead of Shotgun_Start.

[JagDogger2525]

You compile the script file, not the LOADACS one. And try to make the names 8 characters long or less. Like, use SHOTSTRT instead of Shotgun_Start.

It isn't working

Here is what I did:
Script file (shotstrt.acs in the root folder of .wad)

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#library "ShotStrtLib"
#include "zcommon.acs"

Script 1 ENTER
{
    if (GameSkill() >= 6) //7 & 8. That's because skills start from 0.
    {
        GiveInventory("Shotgun", 1);
    }
}

LOADACS (in Slade)

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shotstrt

[Accensus]

Is there an error? If yes, what is it? Do you have ACC set up in SLADE?

[JagDogger2525]

Is there an error? If yes, what is it? Do you have ACC set up in SLADE?

"Could not find Autoloaded ACS Library SHOTSTRT" - I did set ACC up in SLADE

[Accensus]

If this happens on startup - it sounds like ACC did not compile SHOTSTRT. In .wad files, the compiled file should be between A_START and A_END. Can you send me a screenshot of the root directory in SLADE?
If this happens when compiling...idk, man, screenshot might still be helpful.

[JagDogger2525]

If this happens on startup - it sounds like ACC did not compile SHOTSTRT. In .wad files, the compiled file should be between A_START and A_END. Can you send me a screenshot of the root directory in SLADE?
If this happens when compiling...idk, man, screenshot might still be helpful.

. . . . . . . . I totally got it now. UGH . . . . I just named the file in Slade SCRIPTS this whole time instead of naming it SHOTSTRT

[JagDogger2525]

Thank you so much Lud - I just needed to be walked through it as I had my hand held - now I totally know how to do this.

[Accensus]

Hey, it's my pleasure. Feel free to ask if you're having issues with anything else.

[JagDogger2525]

You should see this in the update of my wad (within DoomWorld), Hell's Train Station