ZDoom

Can anyone tell me why this weapon isn't working in zdoom 2.2.0 and gzdoom r 144? It works perfectly in most recent svn versions of both.

In zdoom 2.2.0 I don't get it when I type idfa or give bpistol. If I type summon bpistol I can hear it hitting the floor when I have a splash wad loaded but it is invisible and when I walk over it i don't pick it up. I know that I don't have it at all because the icon does not appear in the alt hud. All of these things work in the latest svn versions.

All my sprites are in the file inside proper markers and I have a proper working KEYCONF lump.

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//B-Pistol
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actor BPistol : Weapon 22001
{
  Weapon.SelectionOrder 1800
  weapon.AmmoUse 1
  Weapon.AmmoGive 20
  Weapon.AmmoType "Clip"
  Obituary "%o was stopped by %k's B-Pistol."
  Inventory.PickupMessage "Picked up a B-Pistol"
  Weapon.Kickback 120
  Decal BulletChip
  Scale 0.5
  States
  {
  Ready:
    bfr1 A 1 A_WeaponReady
    Loop
  Deselect:
    bfr1 A 1 A_Lower
    Loop
  Select:
    bfr1 A 1 A_Raise
    Loop
  Fire:
    bfr1 A 3
    bfr1 A 0 bright A_PlayWeaponSound("BPistolfire")
    bfr1 A 0 bright A_Light1
    bfr1 B 4 bright A_FireBullets(3,3,1,28,"BulletPuff",1, 2048)
    bfr1 C 4 bright
    bfr1 A 1 A_Light0
    bfr1 A 2 A_ReFire
    Goto Ready
  
  Spawn:
    bfr2 A -1
    Stop
  }
}

Might it have something to do with the capitalization (or lack thereof) of the sprite frame names?

Not 100% sure about this but try capitalizing your sprite names.

[edit]Darnit, Jimmy. :P

Thanks for all the help it's working now.

That occasionally happens to me, but for a different reason: check to make sure your pickup sprite is actually aligned above the floor level. In ZDoom, you'll still be able to see the weapon when this glitch occurs, but it'll appear below the floor. In GZDoom, it'll be invisible because GZDoom doesn't render below the floor.

He's off to bed now but it was the capitalisation thing, the pickup sprite was fine. IIRC, there was a removing of case sensitivity in DECORATE for some (all?) things quite recently. That was where the confusion crept in. He'd set things up, and they worked, in recent SVN versions but they didn't with older "official" versions, despite there being noting in there that should obviously cause problems with the older versions. So, older versions just treated it like a weapon that had no sprites - ie you could summon the invisible pickup but you couldn't actually get the weapon.