The "How do I..." Thread

SoloSpaghetti · Post by **SoloSpaghetti** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:54 am

PermaNoob wrote: You can use SLADE to import an image as a palette, or you'll have to use inkworks, which is... eugh. If using SLADE, the image has to be 16x16 and each pixel represents one palette value.

Ok... It worked... More or less... I tryed to create a Greyscaled Palette with the addition of red for blood, modifying Doom original palette (exported in .png, modified and re-imported)... but now everything look like if I took LSD... what went wrong?

Post by **Gez** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:07 pm

PermaNoob wrote:If using SLADE, the image has to be 16x16 and each pixel represents one palette value.

Picture needs to be square, but the dimensions can be any multiple of 16. Like 256x256 is possible.

It can also import Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, or Gimp palettes.

Also you can directly edit an existing palette.

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-editin ... -in-slade/

RiboNucleic Asshat · Post by **RiboNucleic Asshat** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:21 pm

Ah, right, I forgot about that. It's been a while since I've done any modding so I'm kind of rusty.

SoloSpaghetti wrote:Ok... It worked... More or less... I tryed to create a Greyscaled Palette with the addition of red for blood, modifying Doom original palette (exported in .png, modified and re-imported)... but now everything look like if I took LSD... what went wrong?

Are you sure it imported correctly? Check the final palette in the WAD, or just edit it directly like Gez said.

rollingcrow · Post by **rollingcrow** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:57 pm

This is more of a "what if" question since I currently can't test it, but if a monster has a damage factor of 2.0 to a damage type, will the same monster wearing armor with a damage factor of 0.5 to that type take 1.0x or 0.5x the damage?

SoloSpaghetti · Post by **SoloSpaghetti** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:16 pm

I can't edit by myself because the latest dev build of Slade doesn't want to work on my pc (windows 8.1, 64 bit..)...
And it doesn't still work...

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I was thinking.. Is it ok if I associate the same grey to different colors?

Blue Shadow · Post by **Blue Shadow** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 2:17 pm

SoloSpaghetti wrote:I can't edit by myself because the latest dev build of Slade doesn't want to work on my pc (windows 8.1, 64 bit..)...

I have the same OS as you, SLADE runs fine (you're probably missing the runtime libraries). Although, I'm currently using beta 5 (I haven't updated to beta 6 just yet), and not the development build, which is very old.

phantombeta · Post by **phantombeta** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 3:00 pm

Se7eNytes wrote:This is more of a "what if" question since I currently can't test it, but if a monster has a damage factor of 2.0 to a damage type, will the same monster wearing armor with a damage factor of 0.5 to that type take 1.0x or 0.5x the damage?

IIRC it would be Damage * 2.0 / 2, which would be the damage it would take if it didn't have the damage type.

SoloSpaghetti · Post by **SoloSpaghetti** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 3:03 pm

Blue Shadow wrote:
SoloSpaghetti wrote:I can't edit by myself because the latest dev build of Slade doesn't want to work on my pc (windows 8.1, 64 bit..)...
I have the same OS as you, SLADE runs fine (you're probably missing the runtime libraries). Although, I'm currently using beta 5 (I haven't updated to beta 6 just yet), and not the development build, which is very old.

It was a matter of C++ compiler outdated... now it works. And I succesfully created my new palette! Many thanks to all!

SoloSpaghetti · Post by **SoloSpaghetti** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:11 am

As far as I descend into the code more and more questions jump up to my mind... for example... How can I make a gun wich randomly choose between two or more custom missile to fire?

Post by **YukiHerz** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:41 am

SoloSpaghetti wrote:As far as I descend into the code more and more questions jump up to my mind... for example... How can I make a gun wich randomly choose between two or more custom missile to fire?

A mix of A_Jump and other firing states would be one way to achieve it.

Spoiler:

I'm Sure there is a better way.

TheBadHustlex · Post by **TheBadHustlex** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 12:40 pm

I have a problem with SNDINFO.
I've created several assignments with the correct lumpnames, but it won't play anything in the game.

Spoiler:
$random misc/JQuoting { misc/JQuote1 misc/JQuote2 misc/JQuote3 misc/JQuote4 misc/JQuote5 misc/JQuote6 misc/JQuote7 misc/JQuote8 misc/JQuote9 }
misc/JQuote1 XEVE_QUOTE1
misc/JQuote2 XEVE_QUOTE2
misc/JQuote3 XEVE_QUOTE3
misc/JQuote4 XEVE_QUOTE4
misc/JQuote5 XEVE_QUOTE5
misc/JQuote6 XEVE_QUOTE6
misc/JQuote7 XEVE_QUOTE7
misc/JQuote8 XEVE_QUOTE8
misc/JQuote9 XEVE_QUOTE9

This keeps happening to me randomly. And I seem to be too stupid to find out what I did wrong...

Blue Shadow · Post by **Blue Shadow** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:50 pm

The lump name of the sounds is too long. Reduce it to 8 characters or less.

If you're using [wiki=Using_ZIPs_as_WAD_replacement]PK3 instead of WAD[/wiki], you can keep them as they are, and instead use full paths in SNDINFO:

Code: Select all

misc/JQuote1 "sounds/XEVE_QUOTE1.[ext]"

Replace [ext] with the sound file's extension.

The_Funktasm · Post by **The_Funktasm** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:42 pm

Hmm... How do I have a projectile damage/hit any target, and ignore the usual behavior of sparing whoever spawned it?

Blue Shadow · Post by **Blue Shadow** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:00 pm

The projectile "spares" whoever is in its [wiki=Actor_pointers]target[/wiki] field, which is usually the shooter. You can use [wiki]A_ClearTarget[/wiki] for that. However, there are few side effects to this; the game will not credit the kill to the original shooter or anyone else for that matter, monsters of the same species will be damaged by each others projectiles, and will mess up infighting between monsters of different kinds (they will take damage but won't infight).

If there is a "legitimate" way of doing this, then I don't know about it, I'm afraid.

The_Funktasm · Post by **The_Funktasm** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:02 pm

Blue Shadow wrote:The projectile "spares" whoever is in its [wiki=Actor_pointers]target[/wiki] field, which is usually the shooter. You can use [wiki]A_ClearTarget[/wiki] for that. However, there are few side effects to this; the game will not credit the kill to the original shooter or anyone else for that matter, monsters of the same species will be damaged by each others projectiles, and will mess up infighting between monsters of different kinds (they will take damage but won't infight).

If there is a "legitimate" way of doing this, then I don't know about it, I'm afraid.

It's legitimate enough for me at least. Thanks.

Edit: Well crap. I didn't expect this problem. I'm noticing that "+PIERCEARMOR" isn't letting poison damage get through armor. (With MaxFullAbsorb) I don't want to jack it up with damage factor just so it breaks the threshold... Any ideas anyone? Workarounds?

http://pastebin.com/AWPxarHF

Is this a bug or did I mess up something?

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