0004035: Allow monsters summoned by players to have AAPTR_MASTER point to their master player

MantisBT - Zandronum

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0004035

Zandronum

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2022-09-11 19:00

2024-03-02 18:26

Reporter

Basinga

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Priority

normal

Severity

feature

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

duplicate

Platform

Microsoft

Windows

OS Version

XP/Vista/7

Product Version

3.1

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0004035: Allow monsters summoned by players to have AAPTR_MASTER point to their master player

Description

Currently it's up to some ACS and TID trickery to hook up the monster to its player owner.

It'd be great if monsters just had the AAPTR_MASTER pointer point at the player.

Players already get kills from summoned enemies so surely there's a link to them, so why not allow for monsters and players to be linked better and allow for more control?

Steps To Reproduce

How it currently goes in DECORATE:

1.Use a_Spawnitemex, using a friendly monster as the actor parameter and SXF_SETMASTER as a flag.
2.Have said monster try to do anything with the AAPTR_MASTER flag (a_giveinventory, A_jumpifinventory, etc)
3.Nothing ever comes out of it

It only works when it's a monster spawning other monsters with the flag.

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