ZScript Discussion

[Major Cooke]

That's not what he meant, ZZYZX, he was asking how to set it up.

Now this is just an example.

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		BlockThingsIterator it = BlockThingsIterator.Create(self);
		while (it.Next())
		{
			Actor mo = it.thing;
			if (!mo || mo == self || mo is "PlayerPawn") // Ignore player actors.
				continue;
			
			double blockdist = radius + mo.radius;
			if (abs(mo.pos.x - it.Position.X) >= blockdist || abs(mo.pos.y - it.Position.Y) >= blockdist)
				continue;

			// Q: Make this z-aware for everything? It never was before.
			if (mo.pos.z + mo.height < pos.z || mo.pos.z > pos.z + height)
			{
				if (CurSector.PortalGroup != mo.CurSector.PortalGroup)
					continue;
			}
			
			if (mo.bSHOOTABLE || mo.bVULNERABLE)
			{	mo.DamageMobj(self, self, "Crush", 2000);	}
			
		}

You are right, Ed, it takes a pointer. That pointer is the 'center' of the search.

it.thing is the actor that is checked (though for convenience I just used 'Actor mo = it.thing;') and did all those checks up there, but bear in mind those are distance checks included. You can ex-nay those if you need to.

[Graf Zahl]

The BlockThingsIterator is clearly not suitable for counting items. For that you have to get your countable items into some sort of optimized list that doesn't contain anything else, and I'M afraid, right now tids are the only workable solution.

[Major Cooke]

Well it's at least a step up from using thinkeriterator in case if tids aren't an option. That's all I'm saying. At least this way, the snowflakes aren't included.

[Graf Zahl]

No, it's definitely not! The internal overhead for a BlockThingsIterator is a lot higher than for a ThinkerIterator, because a lot more work has to be done on the script side (which is slower.)
If you want to make this fast, the only real option is to have the stuff you want to count in a list that doesn't contain too much noise, even if that means putting in a bit more work to set up the item to optimize counting.

[Major Cooke]

Now that I didn't know...

[Ed the Bat]

Thanks for all the food for thought, both of you. I may revisit my setup later, but as my only issue seems to be in this one map, I'll deem it to be not worth overhauling it all right now for this one map. As a stopgap, I altered the snow actors to be a lot friendlier to my project (and look better, in my opinion), so I have what I need for now.

Again, thanks!

[Major Cooke]

Curious... What can this be used for?

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struct Wads
{
	enum WadNamespace
	{
		ns_hidden = -1,

		ns_global = 0,
		ns_sprites,
		ns_flats,
		ns_colormaps,
		ns_acslibrary,
		ns_newtextures,
		ns_bloodraw,
		ns_bloodsfx,
		ns_bloodmisc,
		ns_strifevoices,
		ns_hires,
		ns_voxels,

		ns_specialzipdirectory,
		ns_sounds,
		ns_patches,
		ns_graphics,
		ns_music,

		ns_firstskin,
	}

	native static int CheckNumForName(string name, int ns, int wadnum = -1, bool exact = false);
}

[Graf Zahl]

Searching for lumps in WADs.

[Major Cooke]

Can it get the name of the wad by chance?

[Graf Zahl]

Not yet. What's there is only because some game code needed this.

[Nash]

Searching for lumps in WADs.

How about reading lump content?

Use context: Modders have abused the LANGUAGE lump for years to create custom "scripted languages" that they'd manually parse and process as they see fit.

[Graf Zahl]

Like I said: Right now it's just so that I could implement the Minotaur's resource checks. I can't do everything at once. ZScript stage one was just making the code from the g_game directories compile, nothing more.

[kodi]

Feeling a little stupid here: I get a "no player classes defined" error while trying to launch d4dzscript or my own project with any of the recent gzdoom dev builds.
nevermind I figured it out.

[Beed28]

Question; will this allow the player actor to freely respawn after death instead of restarting the level, without requiring MAPINFO hacks?

[Rachael]

Question; will this allow the player actor to freely respawn after death instead of restarting the level, without requiring MAPINFO hacks?

What exactly do you mean? A player can already do this now, but it's a CVAR that has to be set (I locked it behind one because I considered it a cheat).

Otherwise, MAPINFO is the perfect spot to put that. Unless you're wanting certain types of death to allow a respawn and certain others to force a reload?