The "How do I..." Thread

[phlum]

Nope, it's been in Zdoom for years.

Alright, this may be a simple answer but how do I use it?

And Ceeb, thank you for enlightening me.

[Sonnyboy]

Anyone know what I can use to make 16 bit midis
like doom's?

What the hell are you talking about?

I mean a program for making midis that sound similar to doom's

http://www.anvilstudio.com/mstudioZ.exe

[Enjay]

how do I use it?

type

r_deathcamera 1

at the console. Die.

If you don't like it, type

r_deathcamera 0

to go back to normal.

[phlum]

Fair enough. Any thoughts on my other predicament?

[Salad Viking]

Not exactly help editing, but I still can't get FluidSynth working. It's really pissing me off! I have FluidSynth installed, fluidsynth.dll, and I have a soundfont to use, but I have no clue what to do now!

[Enjay]

Have a quick look at my last post in this thread:

http://forum.drdteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5227

[Salad Viking]

Thank you! I never would've guessed. This needs to be pointed out, perhaps on the wiki?

[Jakizakiflaki]

hello to all
anyone can help me with my idea, the nashgore mod has 1 flying bloodtrail per hit
if u make healt 10 for example it has 10 per hit
i want try to make many different bloodtrails + bloodspots per hit since u can play with the scale of these things
but i have no clue how to do it
for example make 4 different bloodtrails per hit, with sizes like 100%/80%/60%/40% so i have different sizes of bloodtrails and spots
i just need some structure coz i have no clue how to change it in the wad

[NeuralStunner]

Not really possible, unless you want to hack and break several other things.

[Pandut]

What does it mean when you get a R_InstallSpriteLump: Bad Frame Characters in lump [insert frames here]?

Seeing as my other help thread is being ignore I'd figured I would just ask here. I'm making a custom weapon, and I keep getting an error like this whenever I go to test it out.

I'm preeetty sure my frames are labeled correctly, and wrote correctly in DECORATE. They're png, which I doubt is the problem and I really have no idea why it's doing this >>.

[NeuralStunner]

What does it mean when you get a R_InstallSpriteLump: Bad Frame Characters in lump [insert frames here]?

It means something is inside the Sprites space (\Sprites subfolder for PK3, S_Start/S_END markers for wad) that shouldn't be.

XXXXA0
XXXX = Four characters that are the sprite name. These should typically be only letters (A-Z), digits (0-9), and underscores (_).
A = A frame index, from A-Z, [, \, or ]. (\ becomes ^ if you're using PK3.)
0 = Frame angle. 0 for a frame that covers all angles. (That's the number zero, not the letter O. Double check for that typo.) 1-8 for each of the 8 primary angles. 9 and A-G for an additional 8 angles (fopr a total of 16)
A second "A0" on the end is acceptable, which is the frame this graphic becomes when mirrored.

[Pandut]

What does it mean when you get a R_InstallSpriteLump: Bad Frame Characters in lump [insert frames here]?

It means something is inside the Sprites space (\Sprites subfolder for PK3, S_Start/S_END markers for wad) that shouldn't be.

XXXXA0
XXXX = Four characters that are the sprite name. These should typically be only letters (A-Z), digits (0-9), and underscores (_).
A = A frame index, from A-Z, [, \, or ]. (\ becomes ^ if you're using PK3.)
0 = Frame angle. 0 for a frame that covers all angles. (That's the number zero, not the letter O. Double check for that typo.) 1-8 for each of the 8 primary angles. 9 and A-G for an additional 8 angles (fopr a total of 16)
A second "A0" on the end is acceptable, which is the frame this graphic becomes when mirrored.

Ah, well that narrowed down a lot of things for me. Thank you .

[Ceeb]

I have this lick of code in a custom rocket actor.

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TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("RocketSmokeTrail",0,0,0,random(-5,5),-3,random(-5,5))

Note the fifth argument,random(-5,5), which is for the x-velocity. For some reason, it seems my smoke only spawns to the left, shouldn't going from a range of negative to positive 5 make it truly random?

[NeuralStunner]

Note the fifth argument,random(-5,5), which is for the x-velocity. For some reason, it seems my smoke only spawns to the left, shouldn't going from a range of negative to positive 5 make it truly random?

Try taking out the -3 Y velocity. Mixing X and Y is usually pointless for this sort of use.

[Ceeb]

Derp... Thanks NS.