Please help with calling ACS in decorate - Working with flaw

[S_Andrew_S]

I fixed it: please move. Although, I do wonder what tics would be good to ensure all monsters spawn, sometimes I'm still a few short one numbers over 20 it seems...

EDIT: Okay, now it all works 99%, but--- when going to the next level in a play through, Zand 2.1.1 crashes but --- quite ironically --- it crashed offline, not online. Even though it will be used mostly online, I still won't stand for this. I may have this fixed before anyone reads this, but hell, it's very ironic.

[Catastrophe]

I'm guessing it works offline but not online?

[S_Andrew_S]

Neither

[Catastrophe]

I'm just curious, does it work if you call script 10000 with acs_executealways?

[S_Andrew_S]

It does not, also I did add the lump name into LOADACS in case anyone asks.

[Catastrophe]

So, 10001 works with acs_executealways but 10000 doesn't?

[ibm5155]

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Script 10000 (void)
{
  int levelnum;
  levelnum = GetLevelInfo(LEVELINFO_LEVELNUM);
  printbold(d:levelnum);
  SetResultValue(levelnum);   
}

Does it work?

EDIT: you could also add some print codes for debug your decorate like
GTIK A 0 A_Print("You got the golden ticket! Escape to the chocolate factory!")

[S_Andrew_S]

Nope. It does if I puke it however.

[ibm5155]

If I understand, you cannot execute any code after SetResultValue being called (it's like a return from functions), so your print code was never called (printbold(d:levelnum); )
Also I belive there was something related about doing some code in the first Spawn frame (ignoring the one with zero tic)
Try this one

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TNT1 A 5 NoDelay A_JumpIf(ACS_ExecuteWithResult(10000) == 1, "Level1Spawn")

[S_Andrew_S]

NoDelay appears to be unsupported by 2.1.2.

[ibm5155]

(facepalm)

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Spawn:
         TNT1 A 1
         TNT1 A 4  A_JumpIf(ACS_ExecuteWithResult(10000) == 1, "Level1Spawn")
         (bunch of other checks)
         stop

It's 1 tic invisible, but it'll not hurt anyone

[S_Andrew_S]

That doesn't work either. I'm under the impression it might be something stupid, like I forgot to add the decorate file or something.

[SwordGrunt]

I'm pretty sure support for script numbers over 1000 was added alongside support for named scripts (ZDoom 2.7.1), which means it's not in the current official Zandronum version yet.

Change the script number to something like 900 instead and try it.

[S_Andrew_S]

I changed the script to 850 for the level number and 851 for the spawner. It still didn't work. The thing is, I made a horribly ugly script once that allowed one faction to be set for each level, it used the same numbers and worked. The only differences was what was being executed in the scripts. I have no idea why this has to be any different.

[Catastrophe]

Can you post the script that worked, and the one that didn't? Lets compare.

[S_Andrew_S]

Oh god, once you open this you will see why I want a less crude script

acs.zip

. Very crude, but it works, for the most part. The thing was, the original spawn system where every faction spawned at random only worked half of the time.

EDIT: Well, I did what IBM said and added the print line, yet it did not work. It appears it may not even be detecting the monsters, at all. I added #include "actors/Spawn/S-DOOMADV1.txt" (file name) in a decorate file. This issue has is pretty weird if you ask me, as if it doesn't want to work.

[Catastrophe]

Does ur original problem occur in zdoom?

[S_Andrew_S]

I just downloaded ZDoom 2.5, and I tried making this work there; it doesn't work on GZDoom 1.5 either; It still doesn't work. And if I puke script 10000 in my console, it will crash; GZDoom won't crash, however, it won't pull up the number. Zandronum pukes script 10000 correctly, however. GG ZDoom & GZDoom! Here is the test file by the way.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2yXvg ... sp=sharing

EDIT: I remember that Zandronum 2.1 added support for scripts higher than 10000. So...

[Catastrophe]

You're definitely doing something wrong if it crashes on latest version of Zdoom.

[S_Andrew_S]

I'm thinking it is a decorate issue. But what can it possibly be?