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Doom Decorate and Editing help

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Hey everyone, just had some questions about some doom editing.

Recently I coded a monster to respawn upon death. How ever I was wondering if there is a way to make the monster respawn at the location it was killed/died instead of respawning at its initial spawn location.

My second question is about path node editing in Doom builder 2. What i did was I set up a series of path nodes for the monster to follow. The monster successfully follows the nodes, however once it is killed, and respawns, it tries to go to the node it left off at and it fails. Is there a way for a monster to follow the path nodes from the first node again after it is killed?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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meh, i am trying to to the same thing in Decorate, failing, trought the use of ACS you can easily resurrect dead monsters on ther death location, it could be easier knowing how is handled the resurrection in zdoom, which flags are involved? how is handled the hits points restoration?

regarding the path nodes, upon death all monster specials are lost and all flags reset. you have to readd the special manually using a script (i think, i may be wrong here).

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How are you making the monster resurrect?

If you make it respawn, it'll go back to its starting position; but if you make it resurrect, it'll happen right where it died.

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i'm trying to resurrect it in place trougth decorate, so i have not to make a script on every level where i use it. but all what i got so far is an invincible zombieman that can't enter it's death state.

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Here's a way:

  • Create two monsters. For this example two imps.

  • For one of them, put A_SpawnItemEx in its death state. For the other, leave it alone.

  • Put the Spawnitemex monster in your map and make it spawn a regular monster, in this case a plain imp.
ACTOR CrazyRespawningDoomImp 9000
{
  Game Doom
  SpawnID 5
  Health 60
  Radius 20
  Height 56
  Mass 100
  Speed 8
  PainChance 200
  Monster
  +FLOORCLIP
  SeeSound "imp/sight"
  PainSound "imp/pain"
  DeathSound "imp/death"
  ActiveSound "imp/active"
  HitObituary "$OB_IMPHIT"
  Obituary "$OB_IMP"
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    TROO AB 10 A_Look
    Loop
  See:
    TROO AABBCCDD 3 A_Chase
    Loop
  Melee:
  Missile:
    TROO EF 8 A_FaceTarget
    TROO G 6 A_TroopAttack
    Goto See
  Pain:
    TROO H 2
    TROO H 2 A_Pain
    Goto See
  Death:
    TROO I 8
    TROO J 8 A_Scream
    TROO K 6
    TROO L 6 A_NoBlocking
    TROO M -1 A_SpawnItemEx("DoomImp", 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)     <<<<<LOOK HERE
    Stop
  XDeath:
    TROO N 5
    TROO O 5 A_XScream
    TROO P 5
    TROO Q 5 A_NoBlocking
    TROO RST 5
    TROO U -1
    Stop
  Raise:
    TROO MLKJI 8
    Goto See
  }
}

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Im making it respawn with A_Respawn in the Dead script. How can I make it resurrect at its death position?

Also with path nodes, would you know how to make the monster target the first initial path node after death and respawn?

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Krispy said:

Here's a way:

  • Create two monsters. For this example two imps.

  • For one of them, put A_SpawnItemEx in its death state. For the other, leave it alone.

  • Put the Spawnitemex monster in your map and make it spawn a regular monster, in this case a plain imp.
ACTOR CrazyRespawningDoomImp 9000
{
  Game Doom
  SpawnID 5
  Health 60
  Radius 20
  Height 56
  Mass 100
  Speed 8
  PainChance 200
  Monster
  +FLOORCLIP
  SeeSound "imp/sight"
  PainSound "imp/pain"
  DeathSound "imp/death"
  ActiveSound "imp/active"
  HitObituary "$OB_IMPHIT"
  Obituary "$OB_IMP"
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    TROO AB 10 A_Look
    Loop
  See:
    TROO AABBCCDD 3 A_Chase
    Loop
  Melee:
  Missile:
    TROO EF 8 A_FaceTarget
    TROO G 6 A_TroopAttack
    Goto See
  Pain:
    TROO H 2
    TROO H 2 A_Pain
    Goto See
  Death:
    TROO I 8
    TROO J 8 A_Scream
    TROO K 6
    TROO L 6 A_NoBlocking
    TROO M -1 A_SpawnItemEx("DoomImp", 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)     <<<<<LOOK HERE
    Stop
  XDeath:
    TROO N 5
    TROO O 5 A_XScream
    TROO P 5
    TROO Q 5 A_NoBlocking
    TROO RST 5
    TROO U -1
    Stop
  Raise:
    TROO MLKJI 8
    Goto See
  }
}


Thanks for that krispy, but would there be a way to respawn the same actor? OR how could you make the new spawned monster target a path node?

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Krispy: never thought of that, is indeed a very simple way to fake an auto-resurrecting actor.

anyway if i use an actor, a modified super fast resurrect-only archvile for exemple, that use the heal state on the are where the multiple imps died, it will resurrect them all, i remember that there is a way to remove corpose on dead using decorate.


(EDIT: indeed there is A_QueueCorpse, but there is a way to set sv_corpsequeuesize () in a mapinfo? )

novertugo: i think you have to reset the specials of the monsters manually, maybe this http://zdoom.org/wiki/SetThingSpecial and this http://zdoom.org/wiki/A_SetSpecial may help.

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Im kind of confused with the ACS style of scripting. How would I write for a monster to target a certain node after death?

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Blue Shadow said:

For the respawn thing; you could make the monster resurrect (not respawn) by using Thing_Raise in its DECORATE.


i belived it for a second, i was all "oh my gosh,oh my gosh,oh my gosh," then i tried it, and it didn't work at all. if it is really recognised by decorate i have to find how to make it work.

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I dont think there is a decorate action for resurrection. Thing_Raise is an ACS script.

If anyone has knowledge on ACS, would you be able to tell how I can do the following:

Check if the monster is dead, If it is, Respawn and target path node #.

Or if you know how to resurrect a monster through decorate.

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assuming you are using an imp and that imp have it's TID set to 60 a script may be like this one:

#include "zcommon.acs"

script 4 (void)
{
     
    if ( thingcount (T_imp, 60) == 0 )
          delay(35);
    else{
        thing_raise(60);
        Thing_SetGoal (60, 200, 10, 0)
        delay(35);
        printbold(s:"OHMYGAW! the imp resurrected!");
        delay(35);
    }
}
the exact thing can be done in decorate (and that is what i am searching) but seems to be more difficoult to do...

aaanyway, this script must vary in order to satisfy what you want to do. is it triggered by the monster itself on dying or is activated by a line (swicht)?

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I would like it to execute when the monster dies.

Lets say I have a 'MarineChaingun' placed in the level. He visits path nodes 1 to 10. He makes it to path node 5 but dies. He respawns at his initial start location and re-targets path node 1.

Unfortunately I dont know how to script that. I will try yours out you listed above

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NoVertugo said:

Thanks for that krispy, but would there be a way to respawn the same actor?


Simple. Instead of respawning a normal one, respawn the same one with spawitemex.

Instead of:

TROO M -1 A_SpawnItemEx("DoomImp", 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0


Do this:

TROO M -1 A_SpawnItemEx("CrazyRespawningDoomImp", 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

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Cacowad said:

i belived it for a second, i was all "oh my gosh,oh my gosh,oh my gosh," then i tried it, and it didn't work at all. if it is really recognised by decorate i have to find how to make it work.

Admittedly, I didn't test it to see if it works or not, though it looked like it could, but I guess I'was wrong.

NoVertugo said:

Thing_Raise is an ACS script.

Actually, it's an action special. And yes, you can use action specials from within DECORATE, though apparently not this particular special (or at least not the way we're trying to use in).

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turning point.

Novertugo this should work (i hope, i didn't tested it).

extracted from the wiki and modified, a patrol chaingun marine:

ACTOR MarineChaingun2: ScriptedMarine
{
  Game Doom
  States
  {
  Missile:
    Goto Super::Missile.Chaingun
  Death:
    PLAY H 10
    PLAY I 10 A_Scream
    PLAY J 10 A_NoBlocking
    PLAY KLM 10
    PLAY N 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Resurrector", 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
    PLAY N -1
    Stop
  Raise:
    PLAY MLKJ 5
    PLAY I 5 Thing_ChangeTID (0, 60)
    PLAY H 5 Thing_SetGoal (60, 200, 10, 0)
    Goto See
  }
}

ACTOR Resurrector : Archvile 
{
  Game Doom
  Health 700000
  Radius 1
  Height 1
  Mass 5000000
  Speed 1
  PainChance 0
  Monster
  -solid
  -shootable
  -countkill
  SeeSound ""
  PainSound ""
  DeathSound ""
  ActiveSound ""
  MeleeSound ""
  Obituary "this won't be necessary."
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    TNT1 A 10 A_Look
    Loop
  See:
    TNT1 A 4 A_VileChase
    Loop
  Missile:
    Stop
  Heal:
    TNT1 A 10 
    Goto Death
  Pain:
    TNT1 A 0
    Goto See
  Death:
    TNT1 A -1
    Stop
  }
}
the actor named resurrector is a fake archvile that will resurrect the marine if he die, the code can be inproved by applying a delay to the death state or adding two additional states similar to this:
  Death:
    PLAY H 10
    PLAY I 10 A_Scream
    PLAY J 10 A_NoBlocking
    PLAY KLM 10
  Sightcheck:
    PLAY M 35 A_CheckSight ("FakeDeath")
    Loop
  FakeDeath:
    PLAY M 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Resurrector", 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
    PLAY M -1 
    Stop
the actor won't be resurrected as long the player (or a spectating player) see the corpose.

hope it finally work <.<

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Blue Shadow said:

Actually, it's an action special. And yes, you can use action specials from within DECORATE, though apparently not this particular special (or at least not the way we're trying to use in).


Yes my mistake, meant to say that it dosent work for some reason in decorate.

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Cacowad said:

turning point.

Novertugo this should work (i hope, i didn't tested it).

extracted from the wiki and modified, a patrol chaingun marine:

ACTOR MarineChaingun2: ScriptedMarine
{
  Game Doom
  States
  {
  Missile:
    Goto Super::Missile.Chaingun
  Death:
    PLAY H 10
    PLAY I 10 A_Scream
    PLAY J 10 A_NoBlocking
    PLAY KLM 10
    PLAY N 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Resurrector", 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
    PLAY N -1
    Stop
  Raise:
    PLAY MLKJ 5
    PLAY I 5 Thing_ChangeTID (0, 60)
    PLAY H 5 Thing_SetGoal (60, 200, 10, 0)
    Goto See
  }
}

ACTOR Resurrector : Archvile 
{
  Game Doom
  Health 700000
  Radius 1
  Height 1
  Mass 5000000
  Speed 1
  PainChance 0
  Monster
  -solid
  -shootable
  -countkill
  SeeSound ""
  PainSound ""
  DeathSound ""
  ActiveSound ""
  MeleeSound ""
  Obituary "this won't be necessary."
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    TNT1 A 10 A_Look
    Loop
  See:
    TNT1 A 4 A_VileChase
    Loop
  Missile:
    Stop
  Heal:
    TNT1 A 10 
    Goto Death
  Pain:
    TNT1 A 0
    Goto See
  Death:
    TNT1 A -1
    Stop
  }
}
the actor named resurrector is a fake archvile that will resurrect the marine if he die, the code can be inproved by applying a delay to the death state or adding two additional states similar to this:
  Death:
    PLAY H 10
    PLAY I 10 A_Scream
    PLAY J 10 A_NoBlocking
    PLAY KLM 10
  Sightcheck:
    PLAY M 35 A_CheckSight ("FakeDeath")
    Loop
  FakeDeath:
    PLAY M 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Resurrector", 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
    PLAY M -1 
    Stop
the actor won't be resurrected as long the player (or a spectating player) see the corpose.

hope it finally work <.<


Thanks alot for this script cacowad, going to give this one a go. I was also wondering if there was a way to work in Thing_Setgoal after A_Respawn?

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