The "How do I..." Thread

[Toberone]

lol thats ok it actually worked.

[cybermind]

Is there a way to immideately interact with monster, which is being hit (without using the pain states) to link the shooter and the monster (or the projectile and monster)? The pain states mechanism is inappropriate in my case because monster will interrupt its currect action.

[GhostKillahZero]

so you want a monster to never enter the pain state right? if so then use this flag +PAINLESS

[cybermind]

No, I want to make monster "react" when it being hit by missile, but without interrupting its current action. The pain states seems to be the only way to gain information about monster(you can execute ACS script from pain state and the monster will be the activator). But when monster enters its pain states, it loses control on its current action (just shoot at monster with Chaingun and it almost won't be able to even to move). So is there some kind of trick to gain access to monster without interrupting its action?

[Gez]

If the monster reacts, it stops its current action to perform the reaction.

What you can do is use [wiki]A_RadiusGive[/wiki] on the projectile to give the monster a [wiki]CustomInventory[/wiki] that'll perform some action for the monster, but this method has its limits too (another monster close enough to the victim would get the item too).

[NeuralStunner]

I'm seeing more and more cases for this feature.

[YukiHerz]

can i make A_FireCustomMissile angle account for the player's accuracy? maths is not my thing.

[ArchXeno]

Is there a way to make A_Blast only affect projectiles?
Answer: +DONTBLAST to all monsters.

How can I make a bouncing projectile survive a monster hit?

[rollingcrow]

How can I do exponents in Decorate and ACS? And will it work with a decimal base?

[Ctrl+Alt+Destroy]

How can I do exponents in Decorate and ACS?

sqrt is the only exponential function used in DECORATE, or at least to my knowledge.

[cocka]

How can I do exponents

[wiki]Pow[/wiki]

[rollingcrow]

Thanks, but is there a way to get the script to accept numbers with decimals, and then have the answer returned as an integer?
The bases I plan on using range from 1.051655 to 1.13, exponents up to 72, all multiplied by numbers up to 5000, having the script look something like this:

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5000 * pow(1.13, 72)

[zrrion the insect]

Is there any reason DrawBar doesn't want to use armorclass in the number field. I thought it was okay with armor?

@Se7eNytes: try this:

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5000 * (pow(113, 72)/(pow(100, 72))

and for Pow, I'd suggest doing it this way:

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function int pow (int x, int n)
{
if(n < 0)//negative exponents!
	{
		int y = 1;
		n == n*(-1)
		while (n-- > 0) y /= x;
		return 1/y;
	}
else if(n == 0)//power of 0 always returns 1. easy stuff here
	{
		return 1;
	}
else//old pow
	{
		int y = 1;
		while (n-- > 0) y *= x;
		return y;
	}
}

[Gez]

Is there any reason [wiki]DrawBar[/wiki] doesn't want to use armorclass in the number field. I thought it was okay with armor?

By armorclass, you mean the Hexen display value of armor divided by five?

[GhostKillahZero]

I need a timer that starts from 15:00 and displays at top center.