Changing thing spawns based on player class?

[salahmander2]

The important part. If you were to use consoleplayer in my example what'll happen is each player's copy of the game will spawn different items (if different classes at least) and it WILL desync. Even if you don't care about multiplayer there's no sense in doing it that way, it's potential to break as other bad scope interactions have in later versions of GZDoom. It is fine to use consoleplayer in some circumstances, like reading from play to render to the HUD.

Also my example's just as rough and has bugs but it's not my intention to do all the work, only to point to a solution to the problem, and one that at least has the possibility of multiplayer if that's desirable.

Managing to get adjusted to it, only problem I got is the angle, do you know if there is a way for the angle to be maintained? Unfortunately SpawnAngle has no effect and while Angle does, it has the zombiemen all face the exact same direction.

[salahmander2]

Been working on another type of method for now, doing it via a mappostprocessor, the change works, but alas I'm looking for a way that sets it by which playerclass is being used, what is the best way for it? This is what I got so far?

class ScalPostProcessor : LevelPostProcessor
{
protected void Apply(Name checksum, String mapname)
{

if ("PlayerClassNum" == 0)
{
for (uint i = 0; i < GetThingCount(); i++)
{
int ednum = GetThingEdNum(i);
if(ednum == 2012) //Baron
{
SetThingEdNum(i, 31102); //Knight
}
}
}
}
}

[stainedofmind]

The important part. If you were to use consoleplayer in my example what'll happen is each player's copy of the game will spawn different items (if different classes at least) and it WILL desync. Even if you don't care about multiplayer there's no sense in doing it that way, it's potential to break as other bad scope interactions have in later versions of GZDoom. It is fine to use consoleplayer in some circumstances, like reading from play to render to the HUD.

Also my example's just as rough and has bugs but it's not my intention to do all the work, only to point to a solution to the problem, and one that at least has the possibility of multiplayer if that's desirable.

Thanks for the info. I've definitely been misusing consoleplayer in my mods. I'll have to reevaluate how I'm doing things when I get a moment.

[fakemai]

I'd actually considered if it was possible to leverage the feature that exists in UDMF and to a lesser extent Hexen maps of spawn flags by class, but I don't think LevelPostProcessor can change any of those things, and it would not cover items that are spawned or dropped during a map anyway. There is also the option of using an eventhandler to override WorldThingSpawned, or CheckReplacement, but the option I provided is probably the simplest For the angle setting, can't you just assign it like I did with the test of setting the velocity except with the spawner's actor Like m.angle = self.angle; or something? Again, check the link to RandomSpawner's ZScript, it copies a LOT of stuff in that fashion when it's spawning its chosen actor. Actually, if you don't care about multiplayer, you could just make a new subclass of RandomSpawner and override its ChooseSpawn virtual with the kind of logic in my example. Then you'd get all of the special cases for free without having to rewrite it. Fair warning, nothing is ever simple.

[salahmander2]

Oh, I dunno what I did wrong when it came to self.angle, but it's working now! Cheers man.