Zandronum

Posted: **Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:22 pm**

Not sure how exactly to cover this.
So here we go:

I am trying to add custom death animations to the player character.

In essence I was trying to re-add the unused death animations from the Doom beta and what have you.

They work just fine offline, but when on a sever the client will completely crash and I have no idea why.
So I will post the code and the crash log here.

Here is the code:

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This is the main thing I see when it doesn't crash in game:

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Posted: **Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:28 pm**

My development for Zandronum has stopped long ago, but one thing I believe I vaguely remember is that a_jump used to be a nightmare online. It was often too late with jumping, causing lines after to trigger before it would jump. The only thing noticeable from your code would be that.

Posted: **Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:58 pm**

So is there another way I could implement those custom death animations?

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:35 am**

HellBlade64 wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:58 pm
So is there another way I could implement those custom death animations?

One think I did was A_(Named)ExecuteAlways().
A script seems to execute immediatley, and you can apply randomization in there as an alternative (think about giving a random amount of a dummy item).
You can check for this dummy item using A_JumpIfInventory().

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:15 am**

Here’s the problem.

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  Death:
     TNT1 A 0 A_Jump(255,"RegularDeath","AltDeath")
     Stop

Try this instead:

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  Death:
     TNT1 A 0 A_Jump(255,"RegularDeath","AltDeath")
  RegularDeath:
     ... etc etc

And the same for your XDeath A_Jump frame. Remove the “Stop” after that jump call and let it just “fall through” to the next state.

Try it and let me know if it works.

EDIT:

Fused wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:28 pm
It was often too late with jumping, causing lines after to trigger before it would jump. The only thing noticeable from your code would be that.

Yes, this is what is happening. Even though you listed 255 as the jump chance (basically “always”), the server may be saving that jump synchronization math “for later” and instead look to the very next frame, which is a “Stop” in your case. And for player bodies, that’s bad. If you remove the body of a player who hasn’t respawned yet (that is, their camera view is still the player actor), you will crash the client for that player or possibly all of them.

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2020 1:44 pm**

Use 256 instead of 255 if you always want to jump. 255 may very rarely not perform a jump.
Don't place a "Stop" on the next frame of "A_Jump" anyway.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:14 pm**

So the main issue is fixed, thank you Penguin.
The gibbing works online as intended.

Now I need help with another issue.
The spewing effect doesn't run right online for some reason.
Below is a video demonstration:

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Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:11 am**

Please post a code that includes the bleeding code as it isn't included in the first post.

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:45 am**

Here is the code for the Marine Torso.

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Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:12 am**

Blood2 needs to spawn on the client side only.
It is recommended that effect actors, not just Blood2, spawn on the client side only.

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:30 am**

To be precise, Blood has collision. So it just looks like it hits Marine Torso and doesn't spawn.
Give THRUACTORS to Blood2 and have it spawn clientside.

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:42 pm**

Replace this line

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 PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5))

with this:

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 PTOR AAAAAAAA 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Blood2",random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,random(-5,5),random(-5,5),0,0,160)

Posted: **Sat Jul 25, 2020 3:52 am**

Not sure what the extra numbers on the end change, but thank you all nonetheless.
It works a charm now!

New issue:
So uh, I have a ammo that replaces Cell.
Cell2, but for some reason the ammo pools are still divided.

Like, on the oldschool HUD the right hand side total ammo count shows I have maybe 200 cells but when I switch to my BFG I only have like 26.
I dun-gettit.

Posted: **Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:01 am**

Like; the Cell ammo type isn't being completely replaced for some reason.

Posted: **Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:16 am**

Weapon.AmmoType "Cell2" instead of Weapon.AmmoType "Cell".

Posted: **Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:19 am**

The number 160 at the end of A_SpawnItemEx is a combination of a flag to spawn only on the client side and a flag to ignore the position check on spawn.
You can use a constant names instead.

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SXF_NOCHECKPOSITION | SXF_CLIENTSIDE

For more information, please click here.
https://zdoom.org/wiki/A_SpawnItemEx

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