code pointers

[Zell]

ok i dont get these things at all...supposedly i heard you can give monsters diffrent guns with these?..

[Sphagne]

Currently, you can give them a near attack and a far attack, that's all.

[Zell]

ehh how do i use them?

[Enjay]

You need to use dehacked

General dehacked tutorial

http://www.btinternet.com/~Enjay001/deh01.htm

Explanation of the frame table (where you change code pointers)

http://www.btinternet.com/~Enjay001/deh06.htm

Explanation of the BEX format which provides a more flexible way of changing pointers

http://www.btinternet.com/~Enjay001/bex01.htm

Table of code pointers, not including the newest Zdoom specific ones

http://www.btinternet.com/~Enjay001/deh11.htm

[Zell]

can you apply code pointers to HeXeN monsters?

[Cyb]

nope, you can't edit hexen/heretic monsters in any way with the current zdoom, another WFDS (tm) moment

if you use heretic or hexen.exe though they have their own versions of dehacked you can use