Enemy ammo, keys and 3-D objects

[rebelcrow83]

1.) How do I disable enemies to drop ammo after you kill them?

2.) After I make a 3-D object for Doomsday, how do I put the object in the game?

3.) After a player kills a boss, how do I get the boss to drop a key?


If anyone could answer these questions, I greatly thank-you in advance.

[Illdo]

1.) How do I disable enemies to drop ammo after you kill them?

DeHackEd can do it, as can Edge's DDf and ZDoom's DECORATE.

3.) After a player kills a boss, how do I get the boss to drop a key?

In vanilla Doom, you should accomplish that by making an item-dropping monster into a boss and then hacking the item dropped to turn it into a key. In source ports mentioned above, it's much easier.

[rebelcrow83]

Since I only use Doomsday, will Dehacked work on Doomsday? Also, Without hacking the game, can XG scripting accomplish the same thing?

[Vermil]

With XG you can spawn an item on the map once all of a bad guy type has been killed.

You can obviously elaborate on that to make it a bit fancier. For instance, instead of just having the key appear, you could make a pedelstal raise out of the ground (moving sectors) for the key to spawn on, somewhat like the Choas Sphere in HeXen2.

Though you can not specifcally alter what a bad guy drops in Ddday. All you can do is switch the drops to another bad guy by changing a bad guys ID in a thing def. Drops are hardcoded to things with the ID's:

POSSESSED drops a thing with the ID CLIP
SHOTGUY -SHOTGUN
CHAINGUY - CHAINGUN
WOLFSS - CLIP

Obviously you can change the stats of the things with ID CLIP etc to make them look and function like other pickups if you wish.

[rebelcrow83]

I was thinking on the lines of that, but I wasn't really sure. Thanks for clearing that up for me Vermil.

Also, is there any way that I can link an xg script to a dynamic light?

Example : Turning a dynamic light on and off or causing it to strobe fast or slow.

Thanks in advance!

[JohnnyRancid]

The guys that do alot of editing with JDoom normally stick in the Doomsday forums, you should probably ask there.

[rebelcrow83]

oh ok thanks

[jake250]

DeHackEd can do it
How you do that? O.o

[Illdo]

Oh wait... turns out you can't. Sorry. My mistake.

Unless you edit the dropped items to make them nonexistent.

[BeTaNoL]

In DECORATE, you just copy the actual Doom2 monster props, and remove/modify the string where the itemdrop is located... pretty easy.