Is Patching Decorate Scripts a Possibility?

[Beemer]

Hey all,

So I started modifying the OG Golden Souls' enemies and weapons by rebalancing and implementing faster reloads.

I then decided I'd make a separate pk3 with only the actors I replaced in decorate and load it after Golden Souls' pk3, but sadly it didn't work.

So I was wondering if this would even be possible, and if it is, what would be the best way of approaching this?

 

Bless...

[snapshot]

You also have to rename dec_enem in your addon to something else (eg: cust_enem) and #include that instead in your addon's decorate lump

Edited August 29, 2021 by sluggard

[snapshot]

You have to find the actor definitions from the original file and inherit then replace them

 

https://zdoom.org/wiki/Using_inheritance

Edited August 28, 2021 by sluggard

[snapshot]

Rename R_Red_Plant to something else like R2_Red_Plant, error says there's already another actor using that name, same for the Editor number, change it to something else too or remove it then it will work.

Edited August 29, 2021 by sluggard

[Beemer]

5 hours ago, sluggard said:

You have to find the actor definitions from the original file and inherit then replace them

 

https://zdoom.org/wiki/Using_inheritance

Thanks, I'll give it a shot :)

 

Edit: Not sure how to execute it tho, I get a lot of errors and can't load into the game...

 

-This is an example of an actor I want to replace...

 

TGS_rebalance.zip

Edited August 28, 2021 by bluemoss
Updated my Situation

[Beemer]

So I changed 'R_Red_Plant' to 'bluemoss_Red_Plant' and removed the editor number, still gives the same problem when loading after Golden Souls:

 

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Spoiler

 

"LoadActors: Load actor definitions.
Script error, "TGS_rebalance.pk3:dec_enem.txt" line 1:
   Parent type 'Red_Plant' not found in bluemoss_Red_Plant
Script error, "TGS_rebalance.pk3:dec_enem.txt" line 1:
   Replaced type 'Red_Plant' not found for bluemoss_Red_Plant
Script error, "TGS_rebalance.pk3:dec_enem.txt" line 1:
   Parent type 'Red_Plant' not found in bluemoss_Red_Plant
Script warning, "TGS_rebalance.pk3:dec_enem.txt" line 1:
   Tried to define class 'bluemoss_Red_Plant' more than once. Renaming class to 'bluemoss_Red_Plant@TGS_rebalance.pk3@dec_enem.txt'
Script error, "TGS_rebalance.pk3:dec_enem.txt" line 1:
   Replaced type 'Red_Plant' not found for bluemoss_Red_Plant@TGS_rebalance.pk3@dec_enem.txt
Script warning, "TGS_rebalance.pk3:dec_enem.txt" line 33:
   Unknown class name 'Plantball' of type 'Actor'
Script warning, "TGS_rebalance.pk3:dec_enem.txt" line 33:
   Unknown class name 'Plantball' of type 'Actor'

 

Execution could not continue.

2 errors while parsing DECORATE scripts"

 

I thought this would just patch over the 'Red_Plant' actor in the original mod if I loaded my edit after it, turns out it's a bigger process to just replace the properties

Edited August 29, 2021 by bluemoss
Changed formatting to be easier to read

[Beemer]

37 minutes ago, bluemoss said:

So I changed 'R_Red_Plant' to 'bluemoss_Red_Plant' and removed the editor number, still gives the same problem when loading after Golden Souls...

Here's my load order:

 

Spoiler

 

Edited August 29, 2021 by bluemoss

[Beemer]

...and just like that, solved

Thanks a lot mate :)