The "How do I..." Thread

[Fallentemp]

Is there a way to give the death sprites different angles? say like you move to what the side of it would be it changes to say the side of a dead body instead of the single death sprite like the vanilla monsters?

If you have rotations for it, then sure, why not. It'd be the same as having rotations for pain or attack.

There doesn't happen to be any wads around with such a thing i can use for an example?

[wildweasel]

[wiki]Creating new sprite graphics[/wiki] should explain how sprite angles work. It actually does not involve any code whatsoever.

[Frustration]

Is there a better way to brighten up an attack sequence for a weapon without the use of the "BRIGHT" thing you put in with the sequence of the gun or atleast a way to dim it down as it goes through it's frames?

[jpalomo]

My question: Trying to do headshots. Imps keep aiming up, setting their own heads on fire and dying.

What is the cleanest, most spaghetti-free, easily generalizable way to prevent this?

(I'm using an A_Warp loop with a single actor rather than calling A_SpawnItemEx every frame; also, I'd like to be able to headshot a critter in the middle of its attack sequence so magically clearing the head out of the way is less than ideal)

Just did a quick test and this worked: putting the +ThruSpecies flag on the projectile, then giving the headshot actor and projectile the same Species actor property.

[Gez]

[wiki]Creating new sprite graphics[/wiki] should explain how sprite angles work. It actually does not involve any code whatsoever.

Also, the table in [wiki]sprite[/wiki].

[wildweasel]

Is there a better way to brighten up an attack sequence for a weapon without the use of the "BRIGHT" thing you put in with the sequence of the gun or atleast a way to dim it down as it goes through it's frames?

Use the BRIGHT keyword anyway, and create [wiki=GLDEFS#Brightmaps]Brightmaps[/wiki] to accomplish the dimming effect.

[edit] Link works now.

[Ghostbreed]

Will you be adding a tut on how to create your own monster as well, WW?

[wildweasel]

Huh? Why would I do that?

[Ghostbreed]

Well, I guess since you made lots of other useful tuts... Some of them have saved my life late friday nights when playing around in SLADE3

[mizzouSCN]

Another playtesting metrics problem:

I'm trying to keep track of how many times the player fires each weapon, as well as how many times the player gets hit. For the weapons, I've replaced them with versions that give the player an inventory item for each bullet fired, e.g...

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Actor TrackingChaingun : Chaingun replaces Chaingun
{
Weapon.SlotNumber 4
States
   {
   Fire:
     CHGG AB 4 A_FireCGun
	 TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("ChaingunCount", 2) //tracking bullets
     CHGG B 0 A_ReFire
     Goto Ready
	 }
}

I'm also very interested in tracking how many times the player gets hit. To that end, I've tried to change the properties of the doomplayer thus:

in KEYCONF:

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clearplayerclasses
addplayerclass Doomer

and in DECORATE:

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ACTOR Doomer : PlayerPawn replaces DoomPlayer //DoomPlayer?
{
	Player.DisplayName "Steve"
	States
	{
	Pain:
	PLAY G 4
	PLAY G 4 A_PAIN
	TNT1 A 0 A_GiveInventory("WoundCount", 1) //tracking wounds
	Goto Spawn
	}
}

I have set all maps to allow respawn without resetting inventory, so the player inventory items "ChaingunCount" and "WoundCount" should persist. Instead, they seem to reset to zero as soon as the player dies! Can anyone tell me why? I've even tried using ACS to score "ChaingunCount" and "WoundCount" to a global int on death, but that doesn't seem to work either. It seems to be because I'm trying to change the playerclass, or properties of the player, which seems to be much more complicated than modifying weapons...

Please help! Thank you!

[Frustration]

I'm trying to find a way to give certain monsters footsteps that doesn't affect the player or any other monster besides the one intended there was one way i found that would have worked quite will which would be adding a A_Playsound to the See:

Somthing like this -

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See:
TNT1 A 0 A_Playsound("Step")
BLUE BBCCDDEE 4 A_Chase
Loop

Sadly it doesn't play it as often as i would have hoped, the only way to fix that with this method of it is to give the TNT1 ticks "3" would be a good one for it, but sadly it then interfere's with the walking animation, is there any other way to give the monster a footstep with decorate or even ACS? or is there a way to add onto the walking animation with another A_ somthing like this >

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See:
BLUE BBCCDDEE 4 A_Chase, A_Playsound("Step")
Loop

[Blue Shadow]

is there a way to add onto the walking animation with another A_ somthing like this >

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See:
BLUE BBCCDDEE 4 A_Chase, A_Playsound("Step")
Loop

That syntax is not supported, but it can be achieved through the following:

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  See:
    BLUE B 4 A_Chase
    TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySound("Step")
    BLUE B 4 A_Chase
    TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySound("Step")
    BLUE C 4 A_Chase
    TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySound("Step")
    BLUE C 4 A_Chase
    TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySound("Step")
    BLUE D 4 A_Chase
    TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySound("Step")
    BLUE D 4 A_Chase
    TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySound("Step")
    BLUE E 4 A_Chase
    TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySound("Step")
    BLUE E 4 A_Chase
    TNT1 A 0 A_PlaySound("Step")
    Loop

[DarkQuill]

Handy thread

Okay, so here's my problem. I'm trying to add motion-blur/after-images to a monsters walk cycle, but all the duplicates end up facing the "default" way, and not the way the monster is currently looking. I've looked at some custom enemies, and even the Bishops from Hexen, but I totally can't find it.
Here's my current slice of code for ref:

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Actor WraithBlurA
{
  +NOBLOCKMAP
  +NOGRAVITY
  RenderStyle Translucent
  Alpha 0.6
  PROJECTILE
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    QWRA A 10
    Stop
  }
}

And subsequent frames just piggyback from BlurA. But yeah. How do I get afterimages to face the same way as the monsters previous movement?

Bump.
No one knows how to get this working? =(

[wildweasel]

@DarkQuill, your motion blur code seems to be fine; what's the code look like for how you're spawning them?

[gerolf]

How would I rip graphics from Black Crypt? I've tried everything I could possibly think of except for taking screenshots of the game and doing it that way..