Is There A Way To Manually Trigger An Actor's Action Special

22alpha22 · Post by **22alpha22** » Sun Jul 03, 2022 1:12 pm

I have an actor that can switch between several different states and while in a certain state, I would like it to execute it's action special. (Note: I'm talking about map settable, numbered [wiki]Action_specials[/wiki] set in the actor's special and arg fields, I know you can call an ActionSpecial directly from an actor's state but that would not be settable on a per actor basis from a map editor.) I can't find any functions available to ZScript or even ACS for that matter, that will manually trigger an actor's action special. Using Thing_Activate or Thing_Deactivate won't work either as they will mess up how the actor is supposed to work.

Using user variables, I'm trying to set it up so that this actor can have multiple action specials stored and set through the map editor and it will manually execute them in certain states.

Blue Shadow · Post by **Blue Shadow** » Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:14 pm

There's [wiki]A_CallSpecial[/wiki] (<-- see the bottom of the page)

22alpha22 · Post by **22alpha22** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:25 am

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks so much.

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