Spawn Key When Killing Actor

[Phendrena]

Hello!!

I'm sure I've read somewhere how to do this, however poking around here and there hasn't helped me find it.... anyway....

When I kill an actor, TID 27 in this case, I would like to spawn a yellow key card. Is anyone able to help me as I can't work out how to do it. Source port is ZDoom (D-in-H format).

Thanks,

Dave

[Kappes Buur]

Place a mapspot where you want to spawn the yellow key card. Give it a TID, eg: 100

Then attach this script to the actor. The script will be executed when the actor is killed.

script 100 (void)
{
delay (15);
// Thing_Spawn (mapspottid, type, angle, new tid)
Thing_Spawn ( 100, T_YELLOWKEYCARD, 0, 0);
}

Example

[Obsidian]

Kappes Buur said:

Place a mapspot where you want to spawn the yellow key card. Give it a TID, eg: 100

Then attach this script to the actor. The script will be executed when the actor is killed.

script 100 (void)
{
delay (15);
// Thing_Spawn (mapspottid, type, angle, new tid)
Thing_Spawn ( 100, T_YELLOWKEYCARD, 0, 0);
}

Example

You can do the same thing without a script as well: click the monster, select Action and set it to action 135(Thing Spawn). Then set the Thing ID of the Map Spot and what thing you want to spawn.

[Phendrena]

I was hoping to have the key 'dropped' by the actor. Am I best to create a custom actor that spawns the key upon death??

[Blue Shadow]

You can do that or you can use the Spawn ACS function.

Give the monster that you want to drop the key on death a tid (in your case, that would be 27), "Attach" special #80 (ACS_Execute) to it. Set the script number and the first argument. The first argument should be the same as the tid you give to the monster, which, again, in your case is 27.

Here is the script to execute:

Script 1 (int tid)
{
  Spawn("YellowCard", GetActorX(tid), GetActorY(tid), GetActorZ(tid));
}

[Gez]

As Obsidian pointed out, you don't need to make it a script. You can use a Thing_Spawn special instead.

[Gebstadter]

To elaborate on what Gez said, even to have it spawn where the monster falls, you can give the monster a ThingID (say 100) and then attach ThingSpawn to it with a MapSpot Tag equal to the monster's ThingID (in this case 100 again).

Admittedly the delay looks a lot better, because with this method the key teleports in (fog and all) before the monster has even hit the ground.

[Gebstadter]

For illustration, see http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~puleo/doom/spawn.wad

[Phendrena]

Thanks for the replies.
I've done it, as suggested, without using ACS and assigning the actor with Thing Spawn (Silent). This works very nicely.

Thank you all,

Dave