Alt Death Who What?

[Lantern Jaw]

Hey,

I have made some frames for an imp death in which his head pops off and he keels over a bit like a marine death... yet I want the death occur randomly along with regular deaths. I would really appreciate any advice on the subject.

I have looked all over and I can't find any info out there.

I also wanted to add a touch of nashgore gibbage here is the code that failed, no errors, just no alt death (the frames in question are are VWXYZ):

actor NashGore_DoomImp : DoomImp replaces DoomImp
{ 
states
	{
	Death:
    TROO I 8
    TROO J 8 A_Scream
    TROO K 6
    TROO L 6 A_NoBlocking
    TROO M -1
    stop
	TROO V 0 A_SpawnDebris("NashGore_Gib9",0)
	TROO V 0 A_SpawnItem("NashGore_GibGenerator",0,0,0,0)
	TROO V 8
    TROO W 8 A_Scream
    TROO X 6
    TROO Y 6 A_NoBlocking
    TROO Z -1
	stop 

[newt]

It's been a loooooong time since I've worked with DECORATE but I'm fairly certain A_Jump is what you're looking for here. Such as:

actor NashGore_DoomImp : DoomImp replaces DoomImp
{ 
states
	{
	Death:
    TROO A 0 A_Jump (128, 6) // 50% chance of jumping down 6 states to TROO V
    TROO I 8
    TROO J 8 A_Scream
    TROO K 6
    TROO L 6 A_NoBlocking
    TROO M -1
    stop
	TROO V 0 A_SpawnDebris("NashGore_Gib9",0)
	TROO V 0 A_SpawnItem("NashGore_GibGenerator",0,0,0,0)
	TROO V 8
    TROO W 8 A_Scream
    TROO X 6
    TROO Y 6 A_NoBlocking
    TROO Z -1
	stop 

[Lantern Jaw]

Ahh, yesssss! thanks Newt.

[Lantern Jaw]

Just to show you the grizzly death that I was talking about. ...my first attempt at doom or video game sprites of any kind.

[Mithral_Demon]

Lantern Jaw said:

http://www.paulloudon.com/avatar/imp_death.jpg

Just to show you the grizzly death that I was talking about. ...my first attempt at doom or video game sprites of any kind.

That is pretty awesome, "Boom Headshot"... But not the same situation as other FPS'...

[newt]

Lantern Jaw said:

Ahh, yesssss! thanks Newt.

No problem. And of course you can change the first parameter around to increase/decrease the chances, 50% just seemed like a nice round number at the time.

Cool death frames, by the way. :)