Randomspawner Flag/TID Transfer

[StroggVorbis]

I played a UDMF map that has a rocket launcher which counts as a secret upon pickup. I then played the map again with a mod that replaces the Rocketlauncher with a RandomSpawner. Neither of the mod's dropped/spawned replacements inherit the Rocketlauncher's 'Count as Secret' flag, so I'm unable to finish the map with 100% secrets. The spawner looks like this:

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Actor RocketReplacer : RandomSpawner replaces Rocketlauncher
{
DropItem "Rocketlauncher1" 255 10 //to avoid a recursion
DropItem "STGrenadelauncher" 255 3
}

Is there a way to work around this, or does the RandomSpawner itself have to be replaced with a custom made spawner which uses A_Jump and A_SpawnItemEX in its spawn state?

So it looks like this:

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Actor RocketLauncherSpawner replaces RocketLauncher
{
States
{
Spawn:
TNT1 A 0
TNT1 A 0 A_Jump (255,1,2)
TNT1 A 1 A_SpawnItemEX ("RocketLauncher1", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, tid)
Goto Death
TNT1 A 1 A_SpawnItemEX ("STGrenadeLauncher", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, tid)
}
}

Thanks in advance.

[ramon.dexter]

Well, you are replacing an actor, that has a flag "+countsercret" with a actor, that doesn't have this flag.

How do you want the engine to transfer one flag, when it is not specified in the new actor? This is just impossible.

[StroggVorbis]

The +countsecret flag is not applied via DECORATE, its done via an UDMF map script. This is done so not every rocket launcher counts as a secret, only a specific one and only in said map. Like I said, as long as the rocket launcher gets replaced directly, it still works. Replacing it with a RandomSpawner however, doesn't. Upon map load, the RandomSpawner destroys itself directly after executing its function, without transfering the +countsecret flag to the weapon it spawns.

Edit: In theory it might work when inheriting from the Rocket Launcher itself. But you can't inherit from both RandomSpawner and something else at the same time.

[Apeirogon]

What map?

[Gez]

RS should transfer everything. Anything missing is an oversight that should be fixed. In fact it might be useful to make a transfer spawn properties function that could be used elsewhere in ZScript.

[StroggVorbis]

RS should transfer everything. Anything missing is an oversight that should be fixed. In fact it might be useful to make a transfer spawn properties function that could be used elsewhere in ZScript.

That must be it, then. I searched the ZDoom Wiki high and low for a flag or property that I could append to the RS, but didn't find anything. Thanks for the quick response, this case needs to be investigated further :)

[Blue Shadow]

I reported this as a bug.