User:VanishedOne

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Stim/Response

Type	Comment in tdm_stim_response.script	My notes
STIM_FROB	Frobbed	The Response to apply STIM_FROB won't work everywhere the dedicated frob Response will (only the latter collects loot).
STIM_FIRE	Fire
STIM_WATER	Water
STIM_DAMAGE	damages target	AI and the player have a STIM_DAMAGE Response to make this the case. It's not a response to ordinary damage (though a script object could listen for SIG_DAMAGE).
STIM_SHIELD	protects against arrows or physical blows	Used? Usable?
STIM_HEALING	heals target	The player has a Response to this; AI, by default, don't.
STIM_HOLY	holy is applied	Undead use a special script to get the damage def. from the source (usually a holy water arrow result); without one, there's no effect.
STIM_MAGIC	Magic is being used	Used anywhere? What's the purpose of this one? (From Thief's MagicZapStim?)
STIM_TOUCH	triggered if touched	Couldn't get a Response to fire on ordinary collisions, or on entering brush triggers.
STIM_KNOCKOUT	target is knocked out	AI/heads (including the player head) inherit a Response to this as standard to enable it to knock AI out, but the blackjack presumably uses a non-S/R mechanism for hit-cone-dependent knockouts.
STIM_KILL	target is killed	AI don't have a Response to this as standard. No luck activating Responses through death by normal means.
STIM_RESTORE	target is restored	What does this mean, if not the same as STIM_HEAL?
STIM_LIGHT	triggered by light	[1]
STIM_SOUND	triggered by sound	Needs investigation. (Player-audible or AI-audible, for starters?)
STIM_VISUAL	visual contact	Handled in SDK
STIM_INVITE	can be used to trigger special behaviour (like a stool can invite an AI to sit down)	Probably related to this idea from 2005: [2]
STIM_READ	Can be read	Used?
STIM_RANDOM	Random response is selected (does this make sense?)
STIM_TIMER	Timer has been triggered.	Used?
STIM_COMMUNICATION	Communication vocalization	Handled in SDK
STIM_GAS	Gas arrows / mines
STIM_TRIGGER	Entity "activation" stim
STIM_TARGET_REACHED	Can be emitted if the endposition (e.g. by using an effect_moveToPosition) is reached	Emitted to what?
STIM_PLAYER	The "player" stim	Radial stim on the player
STIM_FLASH	The flashbomb stim
STIM_BLIND	A "blind" stim that blinds the actor (this is stronger than a FLASH stim, no visibility is needed)
STIM_MOSS	stim from moss arrows (e.g., for dampening window shattering)

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Is the magnitude of collision stims affected by velocity/force of collision, as reportedly in the Dark Engine?

Are these (in Response.h) used?

* How much damage must be applied for this response?
*/
float				m_MinDamage;
/**
* No more than this.
*/
float				m_MaxDamage;

Textures

'D3's folder depth limitation for DDS files. You cannot have DDS files more than 5 folders deep... - D3 just doesn't want that, only the id people know why this unfortunate limit is there in the first place.' [3] (Does this limit remain?)

Material shaders

Stuff not in [4] (including TDM's additions):

xrayRenderMap -- I don't have Doom 3/RoE to examine. So far I've managed to make a sort of mirror that shows an AI without his hair when he's placed behind it. I've seen references to skin_xray and skin_head_xray spawnargs, but I don't know what they do yet.

'New _currentDepth global image accessible by any shader. Unlike _currentRender, using this keyword in a material file does not delay the shader being drawn. New ignoreDepth material file keyword. Prevents the shader being clipped by solid geometry.' -- [5]

islightgemsurf [6]

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Is this how the hardwood surface type differs from regular wood?

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In my experience the following can't be used with light interactions:

• Deforms. (All of them? Does TDM even use 'deform eyeball'?)
• Particles spawned from surfaces.

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clamp keyword: if materials look fine in DR but warped or invisible in TDM (e.g. for hinge decals), move the control points in the Texture Tool so the top-left is at 0,0.

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'The "add" image program only works with uncompressed textures.' [7]

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TDM macros: [8]

PARTICLE_MACRO:

 noselfShadow
 noShadows
 translucent
 discrete
 nonsolid
 noimpact

GLASS_MACRO:

 noselfShadow
 noShadows
 translucent
 twosided

TWOSIDED_DECAL_MACRO:

 discrete
 nonsolid
 noimpact
 polygonOffset 1
 noShadows
 sort decal
 noselfShadow
 noShadows
 translucent
 twosided

(Why translucent?)

GLprogs

Frob highlight: 'The frob.vfp program is not active. This has been part of Rebb's frobhighlighting improvement project, but in the end we ran into an issue with TGA files (they ended up with a heavy green tint in-game, which (we think) is due to some sort of limitation in the closed source parts - can't remember exactly).' [9] See [10]

GUIs

Focus doesn't work in TDM: [11]

Misc.

What is/was trigger_air? (textures/common/trigair) There's no such entity def., even among the commented-out ones in triggers.def. Maybe related to the commented-out info_vacuum in d3_junk.def?

`knockout` spawnarg on atdm:weapon_base ('If set to true, a hit with that weapon knocks the AI out') -- working/used? The blackjack instead uses a `knockout` spawnarg in its melee def. (melee_blackjack_ovr): compare atdm:damage_moveable, which also has a `knockout_power` spawnarg.

`inv_item_count` defined on atdm:playertool: used for anything? (Compare `inv_count`.)

$player1.replaceInvItem($some_inv_item, $null_entity) -- if $some_inv_item was simply placed in the world, the inventory icon will disappear if it was on the screen; if it entered the inventory via the shop, the icon will remain until cycled away from.

Weather

 "classname" "func_static"
 "sr_class_1" "S"
 "sr_radius_1" "0"
 "sr_state_1" "1"
 "sr_time_interval_1" "200"
 "sr_type_1" "2"
 "sr_use_bounds_1" "1"
 "solid" "0"

Texture brushes of this entity with textures/common/collision and put them under your rain/snow patches so you can no longer carry a lit candle through a downpour.