The "How do I..." Thread

[Gifty]

Trying to get an ambient loop to play for the player at the start of the level, but I think I'm running into TID problems. I can get the sound to play via "ambientsound" but the moment I use a TID-related function like "playsound" I run into trouble and the sound won't play. Am I doing something wrong?

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script "LevelSounds" ENTER
{
	//assigns player TID
		    Thing_ChangeTID(0, 1000 + PlayerNumber());
	
	//ambient sound
		    Playsound(1000,"mood/constant",0,100,1,0,1);
}

[cortlong50]

Trying to get an ambient loop to play for the player at the start of the level, but I think I'm running into TID problems. I can get the sound to play via "ambientsound" but the moment I use a TID-related function like "playsound" I run into trouble and the sound won't play. Am I doing something wrong?

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script "LevelSounds" ENTER
{
	//assigns player TID
		    Thing_ChangeTID(0, 1000 + PlayerNumber());
	
	//ambient sound
		    Playsound(1000,"mood/constant",0,100,1,0,1);
}

instead of doing it like this try doing something like this (especially since changing player TID can mess up compatibility with a lot of mods.)

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script 1 ENTER
{
ambientsound ("moodconstant", 127);
delay (4200);
restart;
}

lets say the song is 2 minutes long, each second is roughly 35 tics. so restart after 120 seconds.
also for the 127 in ambient sound simply change that to anything lower if it is too loud. 127 is max volume.

then once you want the ambient sound to stop set up an activator (walking over a line or using a switch or whatever) for script 2 (or whatever)

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script 2 (void)
{
acs_terminate (1,0);
}

if this doesnt work for you let me know. i mess with a lot of sound scripts so we can find something that will work for you.

[SHayden]

You should've mentioned you're talking about a playerpawn and not a monster. That changes everything.
If you want main fire and altfire make the pawn do different animations, you need to distinguish them somehow in the pawn's Missile state. It should be possible to do with a token (inventory item without any properties), but there may be other ways.

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Actor DiabolistPlayer {
	...
	Missile:
		TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("RaiseToken",1,"MisRaise")
		DIAB G 10
		DIAB HIJKLMNO 8
		DIAB P 20
		Goto Spawn
	MisRaise:
		DIA2 ABC 10
		Goto Spawn
	...
}

Actor DiabloistPower : Weapon {
	...
	AltFire:
		DIAB A 0 A_JumpIfNoAmmo("Ready")
		DIAB A 0 A_GiveInventory("RaiseToken",1)
		...
		DIAB A 0 A_TakeInventory("RaiseToken",1)
		DIAB A 10 A_ReFire
		Goto Ready
	...
}

Actor RaiseToken : Inventory {
	Inventory.MaxAmount 1
}

Did that, still nothing.

In fact animation changes, problem is in the altfire A_GiveInventory and A_TakeInventory are not working.

[Gifty]

instead of doing it like this try doing something like this (especially since changing player TID can mess up compatibility with a lot of mods.)

That gets the sound to loop without messing with TIDs, the only problem is the sound pops when restarting. I'll try and mess with some editing techniques to fix it, but thanks for the help in the meantime! EDIT: used some tricky editing to kill the pops. This should work for now, thank you!

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

I need a little help with a couple Kriegsland Issues that are bothering me since the very beginning.

The first one is: once the player is on a wall and shoots a rocket, it explodes right in front of the player. However i cant just make it centered, given the weapons are angled.
Here's one of them:

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TNT1 A 0 A_FireCustomMissile("PanzerRocket",2,1,18,1,0,0)

How to keep the angled offsets and make the rocket not explode in the player's face?

The second one is, the zoomed state is too sensitive; once the player holds the zoom key, it goes back and forth a lot, i would like to make it not so sensible, that even if the player holds the zoom key on an automatic weapon, it won't go back until he press the zoom button again.

Thanks for the attention.

[Vostyok]

......How to keep the angled offsets and make the rocket not explode in the player's face?......

......The second one is, the zoomed state is too sensitive; once the player holds the zoom key, it goes back and forth a lot, i would like to make it not so sensible, that even if the player holds the zoom key on an automatic weapon, it won't go back until he press the zoom button again.....

Thanks for the attention.

The only way I know of to stop instant kills on rocket/wall relationships (they are genetically disposed to be very attracted to one another, so this isn't changing any time soon), is to give the missiles an arming distance - this is a real life thing and you can code your rockets to not enter their death state unless a certain range (i.e. give a inventory/health marker for each 2 tics of travel, after a certain time the XDEATH state can be triggered on impact with a jumpifinventory check. My Ashes grenade launcher from the old beta used this trick, especially since the damage caused by a point blank accident was insta-gib-no-excuses.

As for the Zoom State, that's easy. Set the weapon to NOAUTOFIRE but give the fire states A_refire to give loops, rather than goto ready.

Let me know if you need more help.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

About the rocket, thx for the useful tip; i gonna look into that now.

But i just realized how badly i expressed myself on the Zoom topic.

This happens to all weapons, even the ones with NOAUTOFIRE, but instead of using altfire for the Zoom like it usually is (and usually it goes right the way you told me), i am talking about the "Weapon Zoom" key on options, on the "Zoom" state. If the player holds the zoom it doesn't stop.

[Vostyok]

Ah, ok. Maybe add an extra tic or two in the zoom state, while it plays a groovy wirring sound maybe? I'll do some experiments....

[phantombeta]

@GAA1992
You can use inventory tokens to stop a weapon from going into the Zoom state.
You give the token at the start of the Zoom state sequence, then check for it either in the Zoom state sequence before giving it (in which case you jump to Ready) or in the Ready state sequence (in which case you jump to a modified Ready state with the Zoom state disabled).
Then you remove the inventory token after the first tic of the Ready state.

[cortlong50]

how the f**k did my sound just stop working?

can anyone see what the issue is? here is my log file. ive tried reinstalling gzdoom.

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Log started: Sat Nov 18 23:19:12 2017

I_Init: Setting up machine state.
CPU speed: 2660 MHz
CPU Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
  Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz
  Family 6, Model 37, Stepping 5
  Features: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2
I_InitSound: Initializing OpenAL
  Opened device OpenAL Soft on Speakers / HP (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)
  EFX enabled
V_Init: allocate screen.
S_Init: Setting up sound.
ST_Init: Init startup screen.
Checking cmd-line parameters...
S_InitData: Load sound definitions.
G_ParseMapInfo: Load map definitions.
Texman.Init: Init texture manager.
ParseTeamInfo: Load team definitions.
LoadActors: Load actor definitions.
script parsing took 183.15 ms
R_Init: Init Doom refresh subsystem.
DecalLibrary: Load decals.
M_Init: Init menus.
P_Init: Init Playloop state.
ParseSBarInfo: Loading default status bar definition.
ParseSBarInfo: Loading custom status bar definition.
D_CheckNetGame: Checking network game status.
player 1 of 1 (1 nodes)
I_InitInput
I_StartupMouse
I_StartupKeyboard
I_StartupXInput
I_StartupRawPS2
I_StartupDirectInputJoystick
GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
GL_RENDERER: Quadro FX 880M/PCIe/SSE2
GL_VERSION: 3.3.0 (Core profile)
GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
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GL_NV_video_capture GL_NVX_conditional_render GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIX_depth_texture GL_SGIX_shadow GL_SUN_slice_accum GL_WIN_swap_hint WGL_EXT_swap_control
Max. texture size: 8192
Max. texture units: 32
Max. varying: 60
Max. uniform block size: 65536
Uniform block alignment: 256
Resolution: 1600 x 900

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map06 - the crusher

its only this version (2.4.0) every other version works. so what the....

i need to test on this version and 3.x and 1.8.



EDIT

you know what? im gonna leave this up and if the mods want to delete it they can...but i want you to see how dumb something can be and how big of a dumbass you can feel when you realize THE APPLICATION GOT MUTED IN THE VOLUME MIXER!
ive been messing with this for an hour. and for no reason at all it was muted.

this is the type of stuff that drives people to suicide.

[Zeberpal]

I'm trying to get some actors, which appear/dissapear as you approach/walk away to them.
What could be hte problem of script not working properly?(actors are always invisible despite the distance from player to actor)

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script "ActorTransDynamic" (int r)
{
    int cx = GetActorX(r);
    int cy = GetActorY(r);
    int cz = GetActorZ(r);

    int dst = VectorLength(GetActorZ(0)-cz, VectorLength(GetActorX(0)-cx, GetActorY(0)-cy))>>16;

    int maxdst = 512; // 

    int alpha = 0;
    if (dst <= maxdst) alpha = 255-(dst*255/maxdst);

    SetActorProperty(r, APROP_Alpha, alpha);    // <-----I think I'm doing something wrong right here
	SetActorProperty(r, APROP_RenderStyle, STYLE_Translucent);

    Delay(1);
    restart;
}

script 3 ENTER
{
    for (int r = 1; r <= 128; r++)
        ACS_NamedExecuteWithResult("ActorTransDynamic", r, 0, 0, 0);
}

[Kappes Buur]

.....sound stuff .....

Something like this just happened to me today.
All along sound would come from my external speakers, but today GZDoom decided to play the sound through my tinny monitor speakers. It took me a while to find that Windows enabled the Benq speakers and the Realtek speakers



Once the Benq speakers were disabled, all was as it should be.

[cortlong50]

.....sound stuff .....

sound stuff followed by....

Once the Benq speakers were disabled, all was as it should be.

good to see it happened to Kappes too, i was losing my god damn mind haha, glad you got it figure out. glad i got it figured out too before i chucked the damn laptop out the window.

[cortlong50]

I'm trying to get some actors, which appear/dissapear as you approach/walk away to them.
What could be hte problem of script not working properly?(actors are always invisible despite the distance from player to actor)

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script "ActorTransDynamic" (int r)
{
    int cx = GetActorX(r);
    int cy = GetActorY(r);
    int cz = GetActorZ(r);

    int dst = VectorLength(GetActorZ(0)-cz, VectorLength(GetActorX(0)-cx, GetActorY(0)-cy))>>16;

    int maxdst = 512; // 

    int alpha = 0;
    if (dst <= maxdst) alpha = 255-(dst*255/maxdst);

    SetActorProperty(r, APROP_Alpha, alpha);    // <-----I think I'm doing something wrong right here
	SetActorProperty(r, APROP_RenderStyle, STYLE_Translucent);

    Delay(1);
    restart;
}

script 3 ENTER
{
    for (int r = 1; r <= 128; r++)
        ACS_NamedExecuteWithResult("ActorTransDynamic", r, 0, 0, 0);
}

i honestly cant see any issues, but there is a great enemy on Realm667 that appears when it is in within attack range and then disappears.
maybe take a look at the decorate in this actor. (download link below).

http://realm667.com/index.php/en/compon ... 69&Itemid=

[cortlong50]

when using the

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script 02 (void)
{
	SetFont("PICTURE");
	HudMessage(s:"A"; HUDMSG_PLAIN, 0, 0, 0.1, 0.8, 3.7);
}

script...how do i get it to scale across the entire screen? cant seem to figure it out. does the image have to match resolution? because if so....that sucks.