UMAPINFO bossaction key help

[Ludi]

I was trying to make the boss of the first episode of my megawad a cyberdemon, and cause all ceilings with tag 665 to change according to line special 40- W1 Ceiling Raise To Next Highest Ceiling. I did this with the following UMAPINFO lump in a test map I whipped up. 

 

I kill the cyberdemon in MAP01, and a pillar coming from the ceiling with tag 665 does not move upwards at all. In fact nothing happens at all. If I am not using the script correctly, please tell me, and give me some insight if y'all know what I am doing wrong :^)

 

UMAPINFO_Bossdeath_Test.zip

[printz]

40 is a walk-over linedef type, and unfortunately the walk-over ones don't work with bossaction. It's an undocumented but known limitation, which seems hard to fix by the PrBoom+um maintainers, so it will stay as such. Use a S1/SR linedef type instead. In your case, try 166 or 186.

[Ludi]

It works! If anyone wants a working demonstration WAD, I'll post it below. I'm sure there are others that have had this issue :^)

 

UMAPINFO_Bossdeath_Test_V2.zip

 

Edited December 27, 2021 by Sr_Ludicolo

[JadingTsunami]

Correct, see also this issue from the GitHub. I think we should realistically update the UMAPINFO spec to simply remove support for those types altogether, but that's a longer discussion.

 

Shameless self-promotion, but if you use UMAPINFO Designer it will handle known bugs and exceptions like this.