VavoomC/Progs scripting questions

[b0rsuk]

The purpose of this thread is to talk about "how to do stuff" or "how stuff works" in VavoomC/progs. Since my mod works by now, asking my questions in the thread "how to get mod working" isn't right. At the same time, there's

[Janis Legzdinsh]

What are Special variables ? For instance A_FPunchAttack in Hexen uses Special1 variable to keep track of punches that hit. Every third punch is a hook with double damage

[Firebrand]

I modified punch attack to fire missiles. Upon hitting, DoSpecialDamage method of the missile increases the Special1 by 1. So far it works. But on new attack it's apparent the counter is reset for new spawned missile. Appa

b0rsuk

 

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[Firebrand]

To use translations like that, you need to modify the pallete.pcx file inside the "basev/hexen/" directory, you need to add rows on the bottom of the image, since the player has 8 translations (or 7 in arrays), you'll need to use a number bigger

[b0rsuk]

Physics of items

I modified Disc of Repulsion to attract some items - mana created by Hammer of Retribution. The hammer uses 40 mana per shot, and spawns 40 mana where it hits. For player's convenience, and to make things more interesting, Disc of Repuls

[Firebrand]

Mass doesn't actually affect velocity at all, only on Z, but the effect is minimal on it.

Did you tried removing the bFloatBob flag while moving mana items? It could affect the Z movement a bit.

[b0rsuk]

I'll play around with FloatBob function, thanks. I know it can mess up stuff, becaue I tried it on floating bridges .

I don't think the effect is always minimal

[b0rsuk]

I'm trying to write an actor method that triggers item pickup. When player is close enough, the item should be picked up. I don't want to just increase item Radius, because this has side effects (collision when blasted with Disc o

[Firebrand]

Is your item marked with the bSpecial flag? If it isn't then the game won't call the proper methods to pick it up if touched by the player.

[Firebrand]

Okay, this may be a little off-topic, but it jumped at me. Below is a piece of code from linespec/ArtiBlastRadius.vc . There are special cases for certain missiles. Note the way they're checked.

if (victim.bMissile)
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[Crimson Wizard]

Umm, b0rsuk, did you just removed your last post about unaffected ghosts?
I may be wrong but I had a feeling you've got some mistake in 'if/else if' structure.

Regar

[Firebrand]

Umm, b0rsuk, did you just removed your last post about unaffected ghosts?
I may be wrong but I had a feeling you've got som

[Firebrand]

You are checking it wrong, it should be something like:

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if (link.State == link.SeeState)
{
      continue;
}

Right now, you are checking if the State is equal to the projectile's SeeState

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[b0rsuk]

You are checking it wrong, it should be something like:

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if (link.State == link.SeeState)
{
      continue;
}

Right now, you are checking if the State is equal to the projectile'

[Crimson Wizard]

In the meantime, I'm trying to make my Hammer use 20 mana per shot on easy skill levels (rather than 40). I don't know how to do that, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way. Any ideas ?

Well, to get