How to make monsters take damage whenever it touches a floor? (GZDoom UDMF)

[Zulk RS]

So, I'm making a train map and using ACS, I was able to get the floor to scroll and the player to die when it touches the scrolling floor. However, I want to make it so that if any monster or barrel touches the scrolling floor, it also dies. I've been looking though Zdoom Wiki but I can't figure out how to do this. Can someone help?

[Worst]

For making monsters die, you could use the sector action "Actor Hits Floor", and give it the AMBUSH flag ("Monsters activate" in GZDB, "Deaf" in DB2), so that monsters will also trigger it.

 

You can give the sector action one of the action specials that deals damage: DamageThing or Thing_Damage.

 

Or you can use ACS_ExecuteAlways, and call a script that uses the built-in acs function Thing_Damage2.

 

For making barrels die, there are many ways to go about it, but not sure what the best method would be. One method would be to make a barrel replacement with the ISMONSTER flag, to make them also trigger the sector action. This method might have some side effects under some circumstances.

actor ExplosiveBarrelM : ExplosiveBarrel replaces ExplosiveBarrel
{
  +ISMONSTER
}

 

[Pegleg]

If you did this, would it also make monsters avoid the damaging floor? Or would they just start trying to get to you regardless of what they had to walk across, effectively committing suicide?

[Zulk RS]

5 hours ago, Pegleg said:

If you did this, would it also make monsters avoid the damaging floor? Or would they just start trying to get to you regardless of what they had to walk across, effectively committing suicide?

Well, I've walled off the damaging floor with Block Monster Lines so no, they wouldn't walk across it.

[Zulk RS]

14 hours ago, Worst said:

For making monsters die, you could use the sector action "Actor Hits Floor", and give it the AMBUSH flag ("Monsters activate" in GZDB, "Deaf" in DB2), so that monsters will also trigger it.

 

You can give the sector action one of the action specials that deals damage: DamageThing or Thing_Damage.

 

 

Okay I did this thing and it worked like a charm. Even barrels explode when they hit the ground.