[v0.5] A Boy And His Barrel - It's slime time

[isaacpop23]

Would it be possible to make Violet affected by moving floors? It would make some of my map ideas work.

[Jimmy]

She already is affected by conveyor belts.

Anyway about research, is she will be able to pick some powerup items as well? Such as soulspehre.

Working on it.

[InsanityBringer]

From my own testing for hehbots, all powerups should work just fine, except for health ones. Health items work a little weirdly with nonplayers and bump them up to their spawnhealth always. so if the spawnhealth is 100, they'll only get up to 100 out of megaspheres and soulspheres, and if you bump it up to 200, they'll get up to 200 from stimpacks and medikits. All other items, in my experience, work just fine though. They'll grab invulnerabilities and invisibilities just fine

[isaacpop23]

She already is affected by conveyor belts.

Is there a special conveyor to use then? Nothing I've tried so far has moved anything but the player.

[Gez]

Maybe making it so Violet can only pick up healing items it possible.

There are the RestrictedTo/ForbiddenTo things that can prevent player classes from picking up items but I'm not sure how they react with things attempting to pick up items that aren't a player class at all. Worth a try I guess.

[Rexen]

Oh and Jimmy I think the player should be allow to only to heal up to 100 hp by drinking from the the barrel

[Slax]

Replace armor with amore.

[Jimmy]

She already is affected by conveyor belts.

Is there a special conveyor to use then? Nothing I've tried so far has moved anything but the player.

Ah, my bad, try using the Scroll_Floor line special (223), that's where I've seen it work. I'm not entirely sure if it's possible to make simple sector-effect scrolling floors push Violet.

Oh and Jimmy I think the player should be allow to only to heal up to 100 hp by drinking from the the barrel

Yeah I just recently made this change.

There are the RestrictedTo/ForbiddenTo things that can prevent player classes from picking up items but I'm not sure how they react with things attempting to pick up items that aren't a player class at all. Worth a try I guess.

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Script error, "j-ABahB-demo.wad:DEC_OBJ" line 6:
Violet must inherit from PlayerPawn but doesn't.

is the answer to that.

[arookas]

You could try replacing the standard doom pickups with custominventories that use [wiki]CheckClass[/wiki] to restrict them to the player.

[wildweasel]

You could try replacing the standard doom pickups with custominventories that use [wiki]CheckClass[/wiki] to restrict them to the player.

Have Violet start the game by immediately filling her entire inventory full of ammo and weapons, so that there is no room for her to try to pick up more. She'll still try to pick up backpacks, though...

[Jimmy]

Yeah I already tried out Arookas's method, it would seem to be the ideal way to go. Thing is I'm almost a little too partial to the idea of her picking up all this stuff. She can basically pick up everything now, complete with telegraphing messages, and here's how I've done it.

• Stimpacks, medikits, soulspheres and megaspheres heal her like they do the player. This might change.
• She can even pick up armor and this will show on the HUD underneath her health status. Megasphere also gives blue armor to her.
• She can send ammunition and keys straight to the player when she runs over them. Same deal with certain powerups like computer maps and light goggles.
• Blur spheres and invulnerabilities actually affect her - monsters will have a hard time trying to fight her with the former, and of course with the latter she becomes indestructible. (There is currently no visual effect to denote this like there is with the blur sphere.)
• I've got something unique in mind for radsuits and berserk, which are the only thing left.

All this seem ideal? I understand that certain things affecting her and others affecting the player might not be the most intuitive way to go about it.

[Rexen]

To make the barrel move on a conveyor belts, first tag the sector. Then make a script like this:

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script 1 Enter {

Scroll_Floor(4,32,0,2);

	
}

4 is the sector tag, 32 is the x speed, 0 is the y speed, 2 is the type.
SCROLL is type 0 and only moves the flat
CARRY is type 1 and only carries objects
SCROLL AND CARRY is type 2 and carries objects and moves the flat
This is taken from this wiki page: [wiki]Scroll_Floor[/wiki]
I have add a map to this post that shows the script in action.

[Rexen]

Yeah I already tried out Arookas's method, it would seem to be the ideal way to go. Thing is I'm almost a little too partial to the idea of her picking up all this stuff. She can basically pick up everything now, complete with telegraphing messages, and here's how I've done it.

• Stimpacks, medikits, soulspheres and megaspheres heal her like they do the player. This might change.
• She can even pick up armor and this will show on the HUD underneath her health status. Megasphere also gives blue armor to her.
• She can send ammunition and keys straight to the player when she runs over them. Same deal with certain powerups like computer maps and light goggles.
• Blur spheres and invulnerabilities actually affect her - monsters will have a hard time trying to fight her with the former, and of course with the latter she becomes indestructible. (There is currently no visual effect to denote this like there is with the blur sphere.)
• I've got something unique in mind for radsuits and berserk, which are the only thing left.

All this seem ideal? I understand that certain things affecting her and others affecting the player might not be the most intuitive way to go about it.

I like this idea, I do know that objects can have custom renders so you should be able to use the same blur effect the player uses and the Spectre.
Edit: Also I think you should add a weapon that acts like a reset button so when the player "fires it" it kills them and the reloads the level.

[Jimmy]

Updated to 0.1.3. This is rather a big'un.

Changelog:
- MAP01 further updated.
- Violet now picks up items. She can be healed with health pickups and even wear armor! But has no need for weapons. If she runs over a key, that key will be transferred to you, as will the effects of computer maps and light goggles, and any ammunition she runs over too.
- There is now a "Detonator" weapon in slot 0. You can use this to blow Violet up and restart the level if you find yourself unable to reach her or get out of a sticky situation. It requires you to hold the Fire button for a few seconds so as not to make accidentally selecting it and wrecking your progress a problem.
- Violet now has +WINDTHRUST, +TELESTOMP and +CANPASS. For anyone wanting to have wind sectors affect her, or build in telefrag traps she can be a part of. The third flag allows her to stand on top of other actors.
- Violet no longer takes environmental damage if she's above the damaging floor.
- Player can no longer heal from Violet above 100% or if she's currently healing in berry liquid.
- There is no longer a ~1 second delay before the "mission accomplished" sequence.
- References to "barrel" now changed to "Violet" in all onscreen warning messages.
- You'll get yelled at if you hurt Violet now.
- Violet will start to sulk if you stand apart from her for too long.
- Violet's sprites are now paletted PNGs, so palettes in other WADs don't interfere with her purples.

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Also, Cage has done us some friggin' awesome Portal-esque signs! Check this out:


The numbers and sign icons are all included in the wad as individual graphics, and the one you see in the updated MAP01 is defined in TEXTURES. There is also a lump I've called TEXHELP which outlines precisely how these signs are composited.

If you wish to make your own, please do! But maybe define your sign(s) with a prefix, like "REX_####" for Rexen, etc. They'll eventually be included in the main WAD and compiling everything will ideally need to be free of conflicts.

[Gutawer]

Found a few bugs with the newest version - first of all, Violet doesn't take damage while on top of nukage anymore, this must have been screwed up with the above-the-floor stuff, and also, if you finish the level in a way where you can eat off the barrel and press E on the it, the white effect dissapears. If you press E repeatedly after the level ends, you can kill yourself. However, the level still ends afterwards.