VavoomC/Progs scripting questions

[Crimson Wizard]

Ah, I remember I had similar problem.
IIRC, such properties as IdleState refer to exactly the FIRST FRAME of the state animation. Thus, if an actor is at different frame, the equation won't work.
I think you should use either StateIsInRange or StateIsInSe

[b0rsuk]

Ah, I remember I had similar problem.
IIRC, such properties as IdleState refer to exactly the FIRST FRAME of the state animation. Thus, if an actor is at different frame, the equation won't work.
I think you shou

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[Crimson Wizard]

That's because you make a mistake there:

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 if (StateIsInSequence(Other.State, IdleState)){
49         return true;
50         }

Here you compare the Other's State with the Missile's IdleState.
You should perhaps make:

[b0rsuk]

Yesss !! That's it ! Thank you. My ghosts now behave much better, even though they can fly through walls they won't disturb idle creatures. It was very annoying in vanilla hexen, and is even more annoying in a mod where Wraithverge doesn't kill.

[Crimson Wizard]

Glad I could help

[b0rsuk]

A question about native methods.

A) sometimes a method used in DECORATE is defined in a progs file, and then listed in actors/nativeclasses.txt
B) sometimes a method used in DECORATE is called native in a decorate file, for examp

[Crimson Wizard]

When should A be used, and when B ? So far I've only been using the way "A" - I add my methods in linespec/Actor.B0rsuk.vc . But I'm starting to think maybe if I use the method only in one decorate file I shou

[b0rsuk]

I'm trying to utilize the bFullBright flag to make mage's Arc of Death flicker randomly. The actual weapon, not the missile. I started by erasing most of "Bright" words from actors/hexen/magelightning.txt . So far as expected, the weapon is no l

[b0rsuk]

Another question. I want my centaurs to have much longer melee attack range. How do I do that ? Here's what doesn't work:

- editing EntityEx.Head and just changing MELEERANGE constant. Player attacks change their range (undesirable!), but ettins and cent

[Crimson Wizard]

First of all, you SHOULDN'T change anything in Engine folder. These files contain only declarations, but actual implementation is in Vavoom engine. That's why functions there have a "native" type. If you change any class there engine will detect

[b0rsuk]

You can change it the way there won't be any need to fix its call all over the progs. There's a way to make parameter be optional, like this:

I know, I already tried doing it this way ! But ev

[Crimson Wizard]

No, sorry, it was me who made a mistake.
Actually, you should make something like this:
[code]
bool CheckMeleeRange( optional float range )
{
if (!specified_range)
{
if (Class = Centaur):
range = 2 * MELEERANGE;
el

[b0rsuk]

I've already made it work in a similar way, simply

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if (IsA('Centaur'))


And it works. I've seen the !specified_variablename trick before, and couldn't find a variable with a name like that. You mean I can use it with wit

[b0rsuk]

Wait a second - I don't have to do this ! There's already a "MeleeRange" actor property !! And the CheckMeleeRange method uses the property, not MELEERANGE constant.

But another question arises. In linespec/EntityEx.Head.vc , MELEERANGE constan

[b0rsuk]

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1333             A = Spawn(class<EntityEx>(SInfo->ChunkClass), org);


This line from progs/linespec/EntityEx.Physics.vc generates a chunk corresponding to surface type when a projectile hits floor. For example if