Some questions about building mod

[Crimson Wizard]

Is it possible to make an Action Special which returns some result to map script?

[Crimson Wizard]

It seems that now we cannot make Action Special ID > 255 at all. Why?

[Janis Legzdinsh]

Is it possible to make an Action Special which returns some result to map script?

Only boolean value can be returned.

It seems that now we cannot make Action Special ID > 255 at all. Why?

I guess it's because you are using extended version of acc which by default uses byte instructions in which case line specials are encoded as bytes and are limited to 255. By passing -h option it will use integer instructions.

[Crimson Wizard]

Is it possible to make an Action Special which returns some result to map script?

Only boolean value can be returned.

And how it can be done? Unfortunately I used ACS too long ago last time to remember much about it.

[Janis Legzdinsh]

Just check the return value of a line special.

[Crimson Wizard]

It seems that now we cannot make Action Special ID > 255 at all. Why?

I guess it's because you are using extended version of acc which by default uses byte instructions in which case line specials are encoded as bytes and are limited to 255. By passing -h option it will use integer instructions.

I tried but it doesn't seem to work. I checked acc debug info and saw it still substs wrong action special ids, for example '4' instead of '260'.

[Janis Legzdinsh]

I just checked compiler and found out that it internaly stores action specials as bytes, so you are limited to 255 action specials.

[Crimson Wizard]

Uh, too bad. Still we may use original Raven's acc.exe, but modern has many additional features that are too good to be rejected.
Is ACC released as open source? Maybe it can be modified somehow?

[Janis Legzdinsh]

Of course it is open source, you can get the source from ZDoom's website or from Vavoom source tree (but it's an older version).

[Crimson Wizard]

Assuming we have some actor spawned somewhere. How I may check whether he has / has not walls (solid lines (?)) in vicinity of his body radius (i.e. is he got stuck)?
Seems TryMove does not help much in this case.

[Firebrand]

I know why you are asking this , I've been looking for a solution to it to, but I'm stuck, supposedly, you should check if thing will fit the desired position (with it's radius), if it won't fit you shouldn't spawn it, I think the problem could be related to that, hope this helps you out .

[Crimson Wizard]

Oops, nevermind.
Again, I forgot about TestLocation function.