The reason for defining them is to be able to fill out the Eternity translation table for GZDoom's Extradata parser.
Most of the new specials are mere specializations of ZDoom's Generic_* functions and occupy positions above 255 to avoid filling up the last remaining free slots available for Hexen format maps.
Allowing action specials greater than 255 required a few changes:
* all access to action specials is now through a small set of access functions.
* Two new PCodes were added to ACC to handle these new specials from scripts.
* a minor change to the network protocol, so netgame and demo version numbers were bumped.
* FS_Execute is now properly defined in p_lnspec.cpp.
Two of the newly added specials - generalizations of the special 'close Door in 30 seconds' and 'raise door in 5 minutes' sector types, will also be available to Hexen format maps. The rest are limited to use in ACS, UDMF and DECORATE.
This also adds 'change' and 'crush' parameters to most Floor_* and Ceiling_* specials, again to match Eternity's feature set.
Includes:
- Made the move tried from checking missile spawns ignore drop off height. This solves the Voodoo Gun ghostly civilian issue.
- Fixed: the NOTELEPORT flag is removed from Dehacked missiles which lose the MISSILE flag. This caused problems with certain special effects based on dehacked spawn cubes.
- Fixed: all Boom silent teleporters preserve relative height.
- support for palette independent particle colors if the renderer can handle them.
SVN r3329 (trunk)
- added Sector_SetTranslucent special so set translucency of portal planes at run time.
- added 'additive' information for portal planes. This is no-op at the moment because the flat drawers can't handle additive translucency yet though.
SVN r3149 (trunk)
- updated UDMF spec for player class and skill amount because the old menu limits no longer apply.
- fixed: FloorAndCeiling_LowerRaise needs to consider 4 args in maps to account for the Boom compatibility hack parameter.
SVN r3121 (trunk)
- added Polyobj_MoveToSpot action specials. They are functionally identical to Polyobj_MoveTo but get the target coordinate from a map spot instead.
SVN r2503 (trunk)
- extended compatibility text to allow changing line flags and setting line specials on specific linedefs.
- removed Strain MAP07 hack and replaced it by a clean 'clearlineflags' option.
- Added Doomo format translations for Sector_CopyScroller because this looks like something that might be useful for making
some Boom maps work without having to resort to compatibility.txt.
- added a compatibility setting for UAC Ultra MAP07 which exploited some undefined scrolling behavior in Boom.
(What lengths are we going to make sloppily created maps work? This entire commit was just to address this particular problem...)
SVN r2280 (trunk)
- fixed: The sound channel structure should not store the sound table's entries' addresses which are stored in a TArray by pointer. In case the array gets reallocated very bad things can happen. This caused some bad crashes when GZDoom's FraggleScript implementation created new sound entries.
SVN r2114 (trunk)
- Added more things from Gez's experimental build:
* MBF grenade and bouncing code.
* Arch Vile ghosts emulation (only for compatibility.txt.)
* Several MBF related compatibility options.
SVN r1821 (trunk)
* info CCMD to print extended actor information (not fully implemented yet)
* summonmbf CCMD.
* Beta BFG code pointer (but not the related missiles yet.)
* PowerInvisibility enhancements.
* ScoreItem with one significant change: Added a score variable that can be
checked through ACS and DECORATE. The engine itself will do nothing with it.
* Nailgun option for A_Explode.
* A_PrintBold and A_Log.
* A_SetSpecial.
SVN r1819 (trunk)
unused line argument fields, because these maps could potentially break
in the future if the argument is later assigned a meaning. (Hopefully
all the argument counts in actionspecials.h are accurate. I found a
few that were wrong.)
SVN r1817 (trunk)
treated it as a mace and wrote into some undefined memory.
- Fixed: A_BishopMissileWeave didn't initialize special2 for proper movement.
- Added a speed parameter to A_SkullAttack.
- Fixed: Black as first or only blood color didn't work.
- Fixed: Sounds played in wi_stuff.cpp and f_finale.cpp need the CHAN_UI flag.
- Fixed: Spawning a player could play the *gasp sound.
- Fixed: SBARINFO's health display didn't scale to the proper maximum.
- Added Skulltag's Teleport_NoStop action special.
SVN r1074 (trunk)
- Fixed: The internal definition of Floor_LowerToNearest had incorrect parameter
settings.
- Fixed: Heretic's ActivatedTimeBomb had the same spawn ID as the inventory item.
- fixed: Heretic's mace did not have its spawn ID set.
SVN r1052 (trunk)
of type MiscPatch with the same name.
- Added UDMF line trigger types MonsterUse and MonsterPush.
- Separated skill and class filter bits from FMapThing::flags so that
UDMF can define up to 16 of each. Also separated easy/baby and
hard/nightmare and changed default MAPINFO definitions.
- Changed: Crosshair drawing uses the current player class's default health instead
of 100 to calculate the color for the crosshair.
- Added SECF_NOFALLINGDAMAGE flag plus Sector_ChangeFlags to set it. Also separated
all user settable flags from MoreFlags into their own Flags variable.
SVN r964 (trunk)
DECORATE was wrong (2 instead of 1.)
- Changed: Hexen set every cluster to be a hub if it hadn't been defined before
a level using this cluster. Now it will only do that if HexenHack is true,
i.e. when original Hexen format MAPINFOs are parsed. For ZDoom format
MAPINFOs it will now be the same as for the other games which means that
'hub' has to be declared explicitly.
- Added an Idle state that is entered in place of the spawn state if a monster
has to return to its inactive state if it can't find any more targets.
- Added MF5_NOINTERACTION flag which completely disables all physics related
code for any actor with this flag. Mostly useful for particle effects where
the actors just move a certain distance and then disappear.
- Removed the last remains of the antialias precalculation code from
am_map.cpp because it was no longer used.
- Fixed: Two-sided lines bordering a secret sector were not drawn in the
proper color
- Fixed: The automap didn't check ACS_LockedExecuteDoor for its lock color.
SVN r876 (trunk)
- Added 'allowprotection' keyword to terrain definitions to allow damaging
flats that don't damage players with a radiation suit.
- Fixed: SNDINFO rolloff setting for Strife was missing.
SVN r839 (trunk)
Since it uses fixed point parameters it can only be used in scripts though.
- Added flags parameters to all wall scroller specials that didn't use
all 5 args.
- Separated scrolling of the 3 different texture parts of a sidedef.
While doing this I did some more restructuring of the sidedef structure
and changed it so that all state changes to sidedefs that affect rendering
have to be made with access functions. This is not of much use to the
software renderer but it allows far easier caching of rendering data
for OpenGL because the only place I need to check is in the access functions.
SVN r832 (trunk)
- Changed savegame versioning so that the written version is never lower
than the minmum one reported as compatible.
- Added mirrored movement modes for linked sectors.
- Added Eternity-style initialization for linked sectors as a new subtype
of Static_Init.
- Added linked sectors. The control sector determines how they move but if
any one of the linked sectors is blocked, movement for all linked sectors
will be affected. This will allow lifts consisting out of more than one
sector without the risk of breaking them if only one of the sectors is
blocked.
- Fixed: A_Mushroom created an actor on the stack.
SVN r825 (trunk)
which crushing mode is used: 0 uses the game's default for compatibility,
1 uses Doom's mode (crushers continue to move while damaging any actors ) and
2 uses Hexen's mode (crushers stay at blocking actor's top until they die).
Since Generic_Crusher already used all 5 args I created a second version for
Hexen crushing mode.
- Added PICKUP flag to DECORATE.
SVN r817 (trunk)
