Func_Msgboard: Teaching Old Progs.dat New Tricks.

Posted by metlslime on 2005/08/30 18:28:13

You know about the info_notnull explosion hack. You know about making monsters drop weapons or alternate ammo using the .weapon and .ammo_whatever hacks. You know about making items float in the air by spawning them on a temporary platform. Let's have a thread where we talk about new ways to use existing behavior and get novel gameplay. If you're a "retired" mapper, this is a great time to do some armchair level design and suggest ideas you'll never have a chance to use yourself.

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I'll Start.

#1 posted by metlslime on 2005/08/30 18:32:17

Here's one i thought of a while ago. You all know that only the first 4 info_intermissions can get used in a level. You could set it up so that if a player meets some requirements (like finding some special secret, killing all the monsters, or something) you killtarget all 4 "regular" info_intermissions, so that the 5th one gets used instead -- and the 5th one would point to some cool secret vista.

Metl...

#2 posted by distrans on 2005/08/30 18:38:38

...I've got the weapon drop hack to work in level before (see the first ogre in dis_cr8z, but I've never been able to get the ammo drop hack to work. Would someone care to explain in detail?

Good thread BTW!

Dynamic Lights

#3 posted by jsHcK on 2005/08/30 19:04:50

Add an effects field with a value of 1,4 or 8 to an entity to make it emit light. If the entity is mobile (like a door or a monster) the light will travel with it.

Possible use? Light a maze using mostly glowing monsters, so as the kill-count rises, the map gets harder to navigate.

This is a great thread because tips like this aren't as easy to come by as they used to be.

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