Wondering about animdef & animated switches

[aaglo]

Hi!

I have this in my animdef-lump:
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switch doom 5 swch1
on sound chainswitch
pic swch1 tics 6
pic swch2 tics 6
pic swch3 tics 6
pic swch4 tics 6
pic swch5 tics 6

off sound chainswitch
pic swch5 tics 6
pic swch4 tics 6
pic swch3 tics 6
pic swch2 tics 6
pic swch1 tics 6


switch doom 3 swrop1
on sound ropeswitch
pic swrop1 tics 8
pic swrop2 tics 8
pic swrop3 tics 8

off sound ropeswitch
pic swrop3 tics 8
pic swrop2 tics 8
pic swrop1 tics 8
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Now, The 3-pic ropeswitch works perfectly, but the 5-pic chainswitch does not.

First I have to admit, that I don't really understand why the animated switch has to have that word "doom" there. But it does have to be there - I tried without it or replaced it with hexen, the game would not run at all. And I just assumed that the "3" is the number of the pics (since the chainswitch did not work with "doom 3").

So, could anyone help me? The zdoom-wikisite does not give much on animdef animated switches...

Cheers,
aaglo

[Graf Zahl]

If you omit 'doom' and the following number it should work. That number does not specify the amount of frames. It's a game filter parameter.

In ZDoom the number is no longer used (it's a leftover from a feature that was removed due to pointlessness) but since you are not telling if you actually use ZDoom I'm not 100% sure if this may be the cause. In ZDaemon or older version the first switch cannot work because 1,2 and 3 are the only valid values for this number parameter.

[aaglo]

Cool, thanks GZ.

I wonder why I didn't think of that option... :)

cheers,
aaglo