Blood_RenderStyle

Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 13:18

Just thought about another DECORATE addition, that changes the Render_Style of the blood from enemies. Just imagine "fuzzy" spectre blood or orange bright (additive) Afrit Blood

Shouldn't be too hard to do!

Eriance · Post by **Eriance** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 13:32

Tormentor667 wrote:Just thought about another DECORATE addition, that changes the Render_Style of the blood from enemies. Just imagine "fuzzy" spectre blood or orange bright (additive) Afrit Blood Shouldn't be too hard to do!

Better yet, a Property that allows the changing blood via actor. You can set the actor to whatever you want. Like EDGE.

Post by **Nash** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 14:36

This is something I've been dying to do for a very, VERY long time now.

I imagine once the internal actors are editable through DECORATE, we can do things like what Torm suggested, and more.

Actually, what Eriance suggested would work too. Blood actor. What do you say, Graf?

Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 18:01

Both solutions make sense to me and dont seem to be too much work to be implemented as the code for the color is already there

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 18:06

If there was a single blood actor...

But there are 3:

Blood
BloodSplatter (used by Heretic and Hexen in certain situations
AxeBlood (use by Hexen's axe or any other weapon with the AXEBLOOD flag.

So it isn't as easy as you propose...

Eriance · Post by **Eriance** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 18:36

Graf Zahl wrote:If there was a single blood actor...

But there are 3:

Blood
BloodSplatter (used by Heretic and Hexen in certain situations
AxeBlood (use by Hexen's axe or any other weapon with the AXEBLOOD flag.

So it isn't as easy as you propose...

Can you just make a parameter that removes the original blood actors if it's placed on the monster? Like how some of the parameters have defaults?

NecroMage · Post by **NecroMage** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 18:37

Or you could add a class that all three inherit from and then have the blood color a property of that class.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 18:52

No. Blood color is a property of the monster that bleeds, not the blood itself. It will stay that way.

Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 20:40

So no chance that you can... for example set BLOODACTOR "MyBlood" to the monster, than define something like a special bullet puff or blood or anything else that is bleeded if the monster is attacked by hitscan weapons?

Post by **Enjay** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 21:54

Or even

BloodActor "MyBlood"
BloodSplatterActor "MySplatterBlood"
AxeBloodActor "MyAxeBlood"

Should they be needed.

Post by **Tormentor667** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 17:32

Perfect idea Nigel

Post by **Enjay** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 19:25

Hmmm, presumably there would need to be some way of specifying the blood decal for an actor too. I'm not sure how it's done ATM. Last time I looked, it didn't seem specifically tied to the blood actor(s) via the decaldef lump.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 21:44

The entire bleeding system is not a prime candidate for customizability.

SlayeR · Post by **SlayeR** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:15

Why is everyone so interested in changing blood colours? I don't see much point really. Whatever floats your boat I guess

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:08

I added it because there were some monsters in PWADs where red blood looked completely out of place. It just didn't fit with the green Demon in LTSD and the Hell Warrior in TNT3.

But aside from that I'd have to agree that overuse of this feature might look odd. You have to be very careful with this.

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