ACS skill

I want a sector to raise and enemies to teleport in. I have it working, but I want the number of enemies to differ among skills.

In theory it would look like this:

script 2 (void)
{
ceiling_raisebyvalue(8, 64, 120);
a = gameskill();
switch (a)
{
    case 0:       
        thing_spawn(2, t_vile, 120);
        break;    
    case 1:       
        thing_spawn(2, t_vile, 120);
        break;
    
    case 2:       
        thing_spawn(2, t_vile, 120);
        thing_spawn(3, t_vile, 225);
        break;
    case 3:
        thing_spawn(2, t_vile, 120);
        thing_spawn(3, t_vile, 225);
        thing_spawn(4, t_vile, 315);
        break;
    case 4:
        thing_spawn(2, t_vile, 120);
        thing_spawn(3, t_vile, 225);
        thing_spawn(4, t_vile, 315);
        break;
}
}

What's your problem exactly?

The archviles don't spawn, except on skill 4 when the one at map point 2 is the only one that teleports in.

There is an easier way to do this. Your mapspots can be set to whatever skill level, just like normal monsters and things. For instance, the mapspot(s) with a tid of 2 will have all skill level flags on, the mapspot(s) with a tid of 3 will have skill levels 3, and 4 and 5 checked, and the mapspots(s) with a tid of 4 will have only skill level 4 and 5 checked. Then you could just do this:

script 2 (void)
{
    Ceiling_RaiseByValue(8, 64, 120);
    Thing_Spawn(2, t_vile, 120);
    Thing_Spawn(3, t_vile, 225);
    Thing_Spawn(4, t_vile, 315);
}

Ichor said:

There is an easier way to do this. Your mapspots can be set to whatever skill level, just like normal monsters and things. For instance, the mapspot(s) with a tid of 2 will have all skill level flags on, the mapspot(s) with a tid of 3 will have skill levels 3, and 4 and 5 checked, and the mapspots(s) with a tid of 4 will have only skill level 4 and 5 checked. Then you could just do this:

I would have never thought of that. And it is so simple.
Thanks for the help.

uh, thing_spawn uses a byte angle, not one based on 360 deg in a circle: http://zdoom.doomworld.com/reference/defs.html

oh, and for fun and profit (with proper byte angles):

script 2 (void)
{
	ceiling_raisebyvalue(8, 64, 120);
	for(int w = 2, x = 0, y = 96, z = 128; x <= gameskill(); x++) {
		if(x == 1 || x == 4) continue;
		else {
			thing_spawn(w, t_vile, y);
			y += z; z = z >> 1; z *= -1; w++;
		}
	}
}

Did ACS always have bit operations? o_O

yes, but for some reason it doesn't support the shorthand versions, so I couldn't do z >>= 1; but ^ & | << >> all work

Cyb said:

uh, thing_spawn uses a byte angle, not one based on 360 deg in a circle

Oh, I was just using the numbers that were the same as the angle of the map spot thing.
In my case it would work better if the spawned viles were facing the wrong way.
Thanks for yet more help.

Cyb said:

yes, but for some reason it doesn't support the shorthand versions, so I couldn't do z >>= 1;

Ah, that's probably why it didn't work when I tried it out :)