Questions About Boss Battle & Credits Scripting

[NiTROACTiVE]

2/6/2019 Edit: I have now made this a thread where I will ask questions about scripting, as these are my first questions I asked about boss battle scripting:

I have some questions about scripting for a boss battle.

1. When it comes to activating a certain portion of a script when a boss reaches a certain amount of health, let's say some Imps spawn as the boss disappears for some time. This would happen after the boss' health hits around 5000 HP. How could I do that?

2. How could I spawn custom monsters into the map that have no spawn number that I got from somewhere like Realm667? I tried something like that before by typing the name of the monster into the type value of this script action, but it didn't work.

3. How could I make a boss invincible for a certain amount of time? I know something like this happened before in another Doom WAD I played.

[Cherno]

1. Add an ACS script to the map that is started at map start (ENTER) and then continually checks the boss' health. If it hits the threshold, make the boss disappear, spawn the imps and start a timer that runs until hitting a time threshold, and when it is reached, the boss reappears.

2. The wiki page tells you at the top if the page: Use SpawnSpot or Spawn.

3. Set his INVULNERABLE flag to true, use a timer in an ACS script. If you are able to zScript, you can also give him an item that does the same for any amount of time.

[NiTROACTiVE]

Thanks for the help there, Cherno.

Anyways, any tips and advice on making an HudMessage scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen like a credits screen? What example code could I use to make credits?

[TDRR]

Thanks for the help there, Cherno.

Anyways, any tips and advice on making an HudMessage scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen like a credits screen? What example code could I use to make credits?

Nothing short of adjusting the offsets via a FOR loop.

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for ( int ypos = 1; ypos < X; ypos++ )
{
HudMessage(insert all code here and use ypos as the y offset);
delay(1);
}

Read this page if you don't know much about these loops.

[Blue Shadow]

2/6/2019 Edit: I have now made this a thread where I will ask questions about scripting, [...]

If this is going to turn into a generic scripting questions topic, then no. It's best you create a new topic for each question or group of related questions.

[NiTROACTiVE]

Nothing short of adjusting the offsets via a FOR loop.

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Read this page if you don't know much about these loops.

I tried this code similar to what you gave me, but I got an identifier error for X saying it's not declared:

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script 7 open
{
	for (int ypos = 1; ypos < X; ypos++)
	{
		HudMessage(s:"Doom is awesome!"; HUDMSG_PLAIN, 0, 7, ypos, 1.0, 10.0);
		delay(1);
	}
}

What should I do to fix that issue?

2/6/2019 Edit: I have now made this a thread where I will ask questions about scripting, [...]

If this is going to turn into a generic scripting questions topic, then no. It's best you create a new topic for each question or group of related questions.

To be honest, I decided to do something like that since I didn't want to clutter the forums with multiple topics asking different scripting questions. But I'll keep this in mind for next time since you suggested this to me.