How to remove Cacodemon's floating abilities

[Hidden Hands]

I have created a monster that is meant to replace the Cacodemon, but the problem is my new monster should not be able to float/fly. I used the code:

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ACTOR newmonster : Cacodemon replaces Cacodemon

but the monster still flies even though the new code says it should act more like the zombieman. How can I fix this? My monster keeps floating off into the air.

Thanks in advance.

In other words, how do I remove the MONSTER +FLOAT and +NOGRAVITY flags when using Cacodemon replaces Cacodemon?

[Blue Shadow]

If it's not meant to be a cacodemon and has its own code, then don't inherit from the Cacodemon class.

[Hidden Hands]

If it's not meant to be a cacodemon and has its own code, then don't inherit from the Cacodemon class.

Well I'm updating a mod that already has Cacodemon replacements, and I thought there must be a way to replace all the Cacos in a WAD without having to go in each individual map and change them one by one, surely?

[Blue Shadow]

That has nothing to do with what I said. If your monster's code is self-contained, i.e it doesn't rely on the Cacodemon class's code, then don't inherit from the Cacodemon class.

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actor newmonster replaces Cacodemon

Anyway, to answer the question: to clear an actor flag, you precede the flag's name with a minus, e.g -SHOOTABLE.

[Nevander]

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ACTOR LazyCacodemon : Cacodemon REPLACES Cacodemon
{
	-FLOAT
	-NOGRAVITY
}

[Hidden Hands]

Thank you both so much.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Well I'm updating a mod that already has Cacodemon replacements, and I thought there must be a way to replace all the Cacos in a WAD without having to go in each individual map and change them one by one, surely?

I may be misunderstanding, but if you're making a mod of a mod (i.e. that will be a separate file rather than an updated file of the original mod), and if the mod has its own monsters that replace Cacodemons (via "replaces Cacodemon"), then using another monster with the same method of replacement won't work (or rather it could... depending on the order that you run PWADs in...). You'd have to replace the monster that the original mod uses as a replacement.