"Randomizing weapons"

Post by **Jimmy** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:56 pm

How do I get a weapon to spawn one of a set of different weapons while it's on the ground? Like DBT did in Aeons of Death.

Phobus · Post by **Phobus** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:22 pm

You make an actor that is invisible and dissappears after it's done it's job. You make it A_Jump with a chance (or even a string of A_Jump lines), and at each possible outcome (ie, the jump doesn't happen or there's nowhere left to go) you have it spawn a weapon, then dissappear (to stop it doing anymore)

Zeg-Vok · Post by **Zeg-Vok** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:23 pm

Look in omgwpns.wad, that has several examples of that, with both weapons and monsters

Post by **Jimmy** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:42 am

OK, thanks for the advice

, but I'm not getting the results I wanted, I get that weird exclamation mark in the red box thingy, and no weapons.

I can't post the decorate yet ('cos I'm at school

) can someone plz post a piece of decorate so that I can work from it?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:48 am

Look at the console. It should contain an error message.

Post by **Jimmy** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:55 am

I did

, it said

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_Shotgun at (xxxx,xxxx) has no frames

where (xxxx,xxxx) is the coordinates (that I can't remember, but it's the shotgun in Entryway)

I changed the frames for _Shotgun (in decorate) from NULL A to SHOT A and I only get a shotgun, not a HeavyShotgun, not a RiotGun or a DoubleBarrelHandgun. I'll post the decorate as soon as I get home.

Post by **Ryan Cordell** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:11 am

Did you specify it's Spawn state?

Post by **Jimmy** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:54 am

Yep.

OK, I'm home now, here's teh decorate:

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Forget it, I changed it.

I have defined all the sprites and decorate for these weapons.

asdf · Post by **asdf** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:47 am

they need to be a_jump 3, i believe, because what you have, will always do a normal shotgun,,,

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:03 am

They need to jump 2 states each.

Anakin S. · Post by **Anakin S.** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:37 am

Goto, Loop, and Stop are all ignored in jump statements.

asdf · Post by **asdf** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:52 am

waits so it would be A_Jump(136,2) it would land on stop.... oh, they it would just skip the stop?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:53 am

Anakin S. wrote:Goto, Loop, and Stop are all ignored in jump statements.

Not ignored. They don't generate states so they don't count.

Post by **Jimmy** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:45 pm

Here's the new decorate, it's still only spawning an IDShotgun.

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actor _Shotgun 2001
{
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    SHOT A 0 A_Jump(136,2)
    SHOT A 1 A_SpawnItem("IDShotgun")
    Stop
    SHOT A 0 A_Jump(136,2)
    SHOT A 1 A_SpawnItem("IDSuperShotgun")
    Stop
    SHOT A 0 A_Jump(136,2)
    SHOT A 1 A_SpawnItem("M16AssaultRifle")
    Stop
    SHOT A 0 A_Jump(136,2)
    SHOT A 1 A_SpawnItem("HeavyShotgun")
    Stop
    SHOT A 0 A_Jump(136,2)
    SHOT A 1 A_SpawnItem("RiotGun")
    Stop
    SHOT A 1 A_SpawnItem("DoubleBarrelHandgun")
    Stop
  }
}

Anakin S. · Post by **Anakin S.** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:01 pm

The first frame in the state doesn't execute its code pointer. Put an extra frame before it.