[not a bug] Defeated barons of hell and tag 666 in e1m8

Jive · Post by **Jive** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 13:18

Not sure about it, but I'm playing "Ada.wad", E1M8, with 10 barons of hell. Once dead, a wall tagged 666 must be lowered, but nothing is happening!!!

This map was E1M8 originally. I didn't notice this tag, and I renamed the map E1M4.
When I saw that there was surely a problem in the map because nothing was happening after having killed all the barons and being trapped in a sort of arena, I have edited it and discovered the tag 666...
So, I renamed the map E1M8, launched again GlBspX on it, and I have used one of the previous autosave files, the one when I was at the end of E1M9.
(I made a special MAPINFO, so that Gzdoom knows that it must go directly from E1M9 to E1M8, because there is no map after E1M3, apart E1M8).
the maps of this pwad are: e1m1, e1m2, e1m3, e1m9, e1m8

This to let you understand how I discovered this apparent bug.
But, is it really a bug, a it's a map's bug?!?

Here is Ada. I'm still working on it...

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 14:43

You have to declare the specialaction for the map. If you replace the original MAPINFO the default special action gets cleared.

Add

baronspecial
specialaction_lowerfloor

to the definition of E1M8.

Of course you can also rename it back to E1M4 then.

Jive · Post by **Jive** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 22:05

There was no MAPINFO, but I created it for the purpose to go from e1m9 to e1m8.
What I understand now is that the fact to create it has cleared all the default actions (for example, there is no music, so I didn't bother with those entries, and there is no music at all now!!! I guess that, if I want to listen the music by default, I have to declare the musics which were the ones by default).
For my problem, the action by default for the barons on e1m8, not declared in MAPINFO, has been cleared...

Not cool !

Thank you for this explanation.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 22:12

Jive wrote: Not cool !

But necessary. Otherwise there'd be no way to clear previous settings.

Jive · Post by **Jive** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:17

you're the coder, and me a poor user... I thought surely stupidly that it was quite easy to clear previous settings with a "-no", or something like that.
I understand more easily, now.
Thank you for your patient answers!!!

You were right (of course), and, with your explanations, I was able to make lowering the tagged 666 sector.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:38

Jive wrote:you're the coder, and me a poor user... I thought surely stupidly that it was quite easy to clear previous settings with a "-no", or something like that.

Sure, but normally when creating a MAPINFO you want to redefine a map's properties from scratch so on the rare occasion where this isn't the case it isn't that critical that it has to be redefined.