Hi, I'm a long-time lurker that decided to finally make an account because all of my researches gave no result on how I should approach this problem...
In an Hexen mod I'm making, I've added 2 new classes which use Class4 and Class5 filters in map thing properties (UDMF format).
I'm trying to make the mod both able to be run with its own mapset and with vanilla or user-made maps.
The problem stands with vanilla maps: Things have not Class4 and Class5 properties defined and so the two new classes get empty levels with only geometry.
I have to specify that, due to the new classes' nature, I need class4 to spawn the same things as class1 (Fighter) and class5 to spawn class3's things (Mage).
I think I'm really close to a solution through the LevelPostProcessor class: by iterating through the entire map thing list it has to check whether the class1 spawner is active on the object and, if so, applies the class4 spawner as well (and same with class3 and class5).
However I'm not getting how I should write this kind of code: I'm not finding methods to modify UDMF map things and I've found no documentation that could help me.
This is my latest attempt to try to get a better understanding of map things, obviously utterly failed. I don't even know how to make zscript recognize the hexen classes thing flags! Any help in this direction would be appreciated, especially on how to reference and edit UDMF properties in map things as this is what I'm actually looking for. Thanks!
In an Hexen mod I'm making, I've added 2 new classes which use Class4 and Class5 filters in map thing properties (UDMF format).
I'm trying to make the mod both able to be run with its own mapset and with vanilla or user-made maps.
The problem stands with vanilla maps: Things have not Class4 and Class5 properties defined and so the two new classes get empty levels with only geometry.
I have to specify that, due to the new classes' nature, I need class4 to spawn the same things as class1 (Fighter) and class5 to spawn class3's things (Mage).
I think I'm really close to a solution through the LevelPostProcessor class: by iterating through the entire map thing list it has to check whether the class1 spawner is active on the object and, if so, applies the class4 spawner as well (and same with class3 and class5).
However I'm not getting how I should write this kind of code: I'm not finding methods to modify UDMF map things and I've found no documentation that could help me.
Code:
class HegemonyLevelPostProcessor : LevelPostProcessor { protected void Apply(Name checksum, String mapname) {name mapset = mapname.Left(6);if(mapset != 'hegmap'){for (int i = 0; i < GetThingCount(); i++){int flag = GetThingFlags(i);Console.Printf(String.Format("%i",flag));if(flag & 0x0020)//level.things[i].class1 == true){AddThing(GetThingEdNum(i), GetThingPos(i), GetThingAngle(i), GetThingSkills(i), MODES_ALL);SetThingFlags(i, 0x0020);Console.Printf("Changed class");//level.things[i].class1 = true;//SetThingFlags(i, "class4"); }if(flag & 0x0080)//level.things[i].class3 == true){AddThing(GetThingEdNum(i), GetThingPos(i), GetThingAngle(i), GetThingSkills(i), MODES_ALL);SetThingFlags(i, 0x0080);Console.Printf("Changed class");//level.things[i].class5 = true;//SetThingFlags(i, "class5"); }}} }}Statistics: Posted by Bledan — Fri May 02, 2025 8:19 am