Extending actors

[Evil Space Tomato]

I think it would be helpful if when you extend an actor and give it the same name as the original it would modify the original, this would allow me to add burning, ice, disintegration death states to original doom monsters and the player.

[Sir_Alien]

Have you actually tried to do this? I'm pretty sure it's already possible. Just inherit with the same name and number and add the appropriate states/flags.

[Kirby]

Have you actually tried to do this? I'm pretty sure it's already possible. Just inherit with the same name and number and add the appropriate states/flags.

Sir_Alien is right. All you have to do is use inheriting in Decorate, like so

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ACTOR SpecialRevenant : Revenant 23000
{
 Health 2500
 RenderStyle OptFuzzy
 Alpha 0.4
 Painchance 30
 +DONTHURTSHOOTER
} 

That's an example showing an inherited revenant, enhacned to have the specter translucency, more health, an extra flag, and a lower painchance

[Siggi]

That method does work, however, it also gives warning messages when ZDoom starts.
So maybe there should be a way to stop the warning message from appearing...

[Anakin S.]

...which you can do by editing a dehacked patch. For the revenant thing you would type in:

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Thing 6 (Revenant)
ID# = -1

To replace the original revenant, the decorate monster would have to have this as the top line:

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ACTOR SpecialRevenant : Revenant 66

[Evil Space Tomato]

I should have tried that, now i feal a bit dumb.
Thx for all your help.