Changing Summon Name for DeHackEd Entities

[odysseyofnoises1]

I've created a number of custom monsters using DeHackEd for a vanilla-compatible wad, but some of the monsters replace things such as the gibbed marine decoration. Is it possible to make it so that I can type the actual monster's name when summoning it instead of summon gibbedmarine, which is rather awkward? I've tried to make a simple DECORATE lump with something like actor CustomMonster : GibbedMarine replaces GibbedMarine {}, but that just summons the default gibbed marine. In addition, is it possible to specify proper obituary messages so that it doesn't just say player died when the player is killed by a custom monster? I tried attaching the wad in question, but it's not letting me do so.

[Gez]

I've tried to make a simple DECORATE lump with something like actor CustomMonster : GibbedMarine replaces GibbedMarine {}, but that just summons the default gibbed marine.

No, it doesn't. If it did, you'd get what you want. What it does is summon a CustomMonster, which is a perfect clone of the GibbedMarine before DeHackEd change. So the original is modified, and you summon an unmodified copy.

So what you need to do is to summon the original (and modified by dehacked). For that, the simplest is to use a RandomSpawner:

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Actor CustomMonster : RandomSpawner { DropItem "GibbedMarine" }

So now when you use "summon custommonster", it'll drop a gibbedmarine which will be your custom dehacked monster.

[Guest]

Awesome, that works. Is there any hope for the obituary messages, or will I have to live with the "player died" message?

[Gez]

For a dehacked monster? The only way they could get custom obituaries would be to get (feature request) GZDoom to give obituary strings to every Doom/Doom II actor.

[Guest]

Awww, damn -- that's what I thought. I guess I'll consider putting in a feature request for that, though I highly doubt something like this would be high up on the developers' priority list. Oh well -- thanks for at least getting me this far.

[Graf Zahl]

I'd rather do it so that any dying actor without a defined obituary can look up "(HIT)OBITUARY_classname" string from the string table. Everything else would be overkill and unmanageable.