[Not a bug] D'Sparil & specialaction_killmonsters

LilWhiteMouse · Post by **LilWhiteMouse** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:55 am

Is D'Sparil suppost to kill all monsters on a level without use of specialaction_killmonsters in the relevant mapinfo?

This is the mapinfo entry for the level I'm using the actor in:

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map map02 "Ruined Town"
NoIntermission
sky1 SKY2 0
sky2 SKY3 0
lightning
FallingDamage
music GATHERFA
dsparilspecial
specialaction_lowerfloor
cluster 1

When I kill it, all the remaining monsters in the level are gibbed.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:58 am

DSparil kills the monsters in a different place than all other monster special actions - even without any MAPINFO special. As you discovered right now this behavior cannot be changed.

Post by **Enjay** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 8:08 am

Yes, as you have discovered, D'Sparil always kills all monsters on a level, regardless of which level he is on, or which game he is being used in. Always been that way to my knowledge. To change this would break older WADs. A way round it would be to include a MAPINFO entry to specifcally prevent this behaviour.

As an aside, I used D'Sparil's "kill monsters" ability to get him to run a script when he dies. Or rather, I attached a script to a Zombieman in a hidden sector. When D'Sparil died, so did the Zombie, and the script was run. I know there are other ways of getting a script to run when D'Sparil's second stage dies, but that's one way, and it seems to work well.

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 8:45 am

Mmm, that's not a bad idea... As for the map info to prevent it... that sounds logical.

LilWhiteMouse · Post by **LilWhiteMouse** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 8:52 am

I'll just cut out the actors area into it's own level then, easy enough. I just thought it rather odd that if that was it's native behaviour then what was the point of specialaction_killmonsters in heretics's mapinfo? Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:43 am

LilWhiteMouse wrote:what was the point of specialaction_killmonsters in heretics's mapinfo?

...to put it on other monsters...?

Post by **randi** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:04 pm

LilWhiteMouse wrote:what was the point of specialaction_killmonsters in heretics's mapinfo?

For the maulators. Put some on E3M8 in Heretic, and killing all the maulators will kill all the other monsters, too.