Breakable glass help.

[Drwalrustein]

I need help on breakable glass I also want it to be translucent. Any answers.

[75]

If you're using hexen format I think you're out of luck

If you're using UDMF, just modify the translucency in custom settings, but I think UDMF still bugs out in zandronum, make sure you test your map in both software and opengl in zandronum if you go with UDMF.

[Drwalrustein]

Thank you. I am going to try it out on acs.

[MajorSlime]

If your using Hexen, you can use a script.


First, set the line's special to be a line ID, and give it a unique number. Also, set the line to Impassible, and activate when shot/projectile hits. In an OPEN script, you want these lines:

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TranslucentLine(lineID, translucentAmount, 0, 0);
SetLineSpecial(lineID, 49, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
*translucentAmount is from 0-255


You can give as many lines as you want that same ID, and they will all function as translucent breakable glass.


@75: never underestimate the power of a good script I did some pretty funky things with Hexen format before UDMF came out.

[Drwalrustein]

@CM2109 when I start my game I get a script error which says invalid declarator.

[MajorSlime]

You obviously didn't setup the script right.

Read this: http://zdoom.org/wiki/ACS

Don't copy exactly what I put; it won't work. I'm not going to give you the exact code for it, because if your going to use ACS, you need to understand how and why.

[Drwalrustein]

I fixed it with a little help from the zdoom forums. Also when I put it in the script it won't work, here is my script.

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#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 (void)
{
   print (s:"Welcome to Flem labs inc, where our flem is your flem" );
   delay (50);
   
   Translucentline(0, 6);
   SetLineSpecial(0,49);
}

[Boingo the Clown]

I am a little disappointed.  I spent two hours explaining an absurdly simple method of making breakable glass that works entirely without scripting and works in all source ports including the original DooM.  I even made up example wads, when Drwalrustein failed to understand what I was talking about. (Seriously. The entire explanation should only have taken five or ten minutes.)

And after all that, his reaction was basically, "Meh. I'm want to use scripting."

Anyway, the method is simple, it is easy to set up, and requires no scripting. It starts you off with the glass as a barrier, and ends with a hole you can walk through. It does not make a shattering sound or throw shards of glass around, but that can easily be done (even in the original DooM) by placing an object behind the glass that makes the sound when it sees the player.  In the original DooM and ALL source ports, such an object can be made with DEHackEd, and in ZDooM based ports it can also be done in DECORATE.

[Drwalrustein]

I went with scripting since I thought you can't make it translucent with that method. I want to see through it.

[75]

I fixed it with a little help from the zdoom forums. Also when I put it in the script it won't work, here is my script.

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#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 (void)
{
   print (s:"Welcome to Flem labs inc, where our flem is your flem" );
   delay (50);
   
   Translucentline(0, 6);
   SetLineSpecial(0,49);
}

You have to set the line ID in the map, I'm pretty sure line ID 0 is either invalid, or you're trying to set EVERY line in the map as breakable, give the line you want to be breakable glass a line ID using the Set Line ID linedef action, then set your script to effect that line ID number.

[MajorSlime]

ID 0 is ignored.


1. Your script needs to be 'OPEN', not '(void)'
2. The first number needs to be a lineID.
3. DO NOT leave the rest of the arguments out. Even if they are 0. In some source ports you can do this, but most will throw an error.




Also, yeah Boingo, that method works and we know about it. He wanted a translucent texture though, so you need to use scripting if in anything that's not UDMF, because you can't put multiple actions on a line.

[Drwalrustein]

When I put it in open it gives me an error and when I add numbers to the translucent it gives me an error and also to the line special.

[MajorSlime]

Really, you can't expect help if you don't elaborate. I can't give you a fix if I don't know what the error is.

[Drwalrustein]

So here is the problem in line 2 of the script where it says script when I out open it says invalid variable type.

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#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 (open)
{
   print (s:"Welcome to Flem labs inc, where our flem is your flem" );
   delay (50);
   
   Translucentline(1,6);
   SetLineSpecial(1,49);
}

[MajorSlime]

You need to read what I wrote more carefully. I said 'OPEN' not '(open)'. Also, you still need the extra 0's in TranslucentLine and SetLineSpecial.