Stained Glass Smash with SpawnProjectile - how?

I'm trying to recreate the Hexen staned glass window smash but using SpawnProjectile instead of Thing_ProjectileGravity. The reason is that I want to use a bunch of custom classes as the shards of flying glass and I'd rather spawn them by class name rather than a spawn id.

It's easy enough for me to spawn a single class of shard

Code:

SpawnProjectile (mirrortid, "NJSHARD1A", random(0, 255), random(10, 40), random(5, 20), 1, 0);

full script for smashing a mirror:

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Code:

script "MirrorSmash" (int mirrortid, int glassline, int mirrorline)
{
      int var0;
      thingsound(mirrortid, "glass", 127);
      Line_SetBlocking(glassline, 0, BLOCKF_EVERYTHING);
      var0 = 20;
      while(var0 > 0)
      {
       var0--;
       SpawnProjectile (mirrortid, "NJSHARD1A", random(0, 255), random(10, 40), random(5, 20), 1, 0);
          }
      SetLineSpecial (mirrorline,0,0,0,0,0,0);
      setlinetexture (glassline, SIDE_FRONT, TEXTURE_MIDDLE, "njsmsh01");
      delay(4);
      setlinetexture (glassline, SIDE_FRONT, TEXTURE_MIDDLE, "njsmsh02");
      delay(4);
      setlinetexture (glassline, SIDE_FRONT, TEXTURE_MIDDLE, "njsmsh03");
      delay(4);
      setlinetexture (glassline, SIDE_FRONT, TEXTURE_MIDDLE, "njsmsh04");
      delay(4);
      setlinetexture (glassline, SIDE_FRONT, TEXTURE_MIDDLE, "-");
}

but how do I set things so that the above line so that it will randomly pick from a pre-defined selection of actor class names? I'm going to guess that an array is involved and, as anyone who has read my posts in the past will know, I seem to have a mental block with them so go easy on me.

Thanks.

Got it... I think. It seems to work anyway. Can someone please review just to check that I have it right?

First I declare a string array:

Code:

str SGShards[9] = {"NJSHARD1A", "NJSHARD2A", "NJSHARD3A", "NJSHARD4A", "NJSHARD5A", "NJSHARD6A", "NJSHARD7A", "NJSHARD8A", "NJSHARD9A"};

Then, later on, I use the array name in my SpawnProjectile line:

Code:

SpawnProjectile (sgglasstid, SGShards[random(0, 8)], random(0, 255), random(10, 40), random(5, 20), 1, 0);

Does that look right?

Yes, that looks right.

Perfect, thanks.