Need help with DECOHack error.

[Z0RGUSSY]

Hi everyone, I am currently working on a project (again after many of my cancelled projects) and I was using DECOHack to make some custom enemies. Currently here, I am making an enemy that would sometimes deploy a shield to block attacks and deploy it when it's pain state is activated. However, there is some errors I am unsure of how to fix. Even though I have made the shield entity, it would say it is not a "valid alias" and the comma keeps messing with it. Can anyone give me an answer if possible? Thanks.

[Doomy__Doom]

I'm going to hazard a guess that thing EliteShield must exist and be defined before you can #define anything with it. I'd try putting it in a separate file and then #include it at the start after dsdhacked/friendly.

[Z0RGUSSY]

40 minutes ago, Doomy__Doom said:

I'm going to hazard a guess that thing EliteShield must exist and be defined before you can #define anything with it. I'd try putting it in a separate file and then #include it at the start after dsdhacked/friendly.

I've tried it. Unfortunately, it did not work.

[Doomy__Doom]

Sorry I'm blind, of course it'd complain about incorrect alias if you don't put a comma after "elite shield" in the macro.

A minimized example that compiles for me without errors (didn't try to run it in-game, as it's obviously incomplete):

#include <dsdhacked>
#include <friendly>

#define A_EliteShield {A_MonsterProjectile(EliteShield, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)}

auto thing EliteShield {+MISSILE}
thing EliteShield "Elite Shield"
{
	health 1000
	speed 0
	radius 20
	height 56
	
	+SHOOTABLE
}


auto thing MyImp : thing MTF_IMP {
	States {
		Attack:
			TROO EEF 8 A_FaceTarget
			TROO G 6 A_EliteShield
			goto See
	}
}

 

[Z0RGUSSY]

28 minutes ago, Doomy__Doom said:

Sorry I'm blind, of course it'd complain about incorrect alias if you don't put a comma after "elite shield" in the macro.

A minimized example that compiles for me without errors (didn't try to run it in-game, as it's obviously incomplete):

#include <dsdhacked>
#include <friendly>

#define A_EliteShield {A_MonsterProjectile(EliteShield, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)}

auto thing EliteShield {+MISSILE}
thing EliteShield "Elite Shield"
{
	health 1000
	speed 0
	radius 20
	height 56
	
	+SHOOTABLE
}


auto thing MyImp : thing MTF_IMP {
	States {
		Attack:
			TROO EEF 8 A_FaceTarget
			TROO G 6 A_EliteShield
			goto See
	}
}

 

So I wrote the necessary stuff from here and that error was gone until I got a warm welcome with another one. Which is this

 

"Line 35, Token "auto": Expected a positive integer for the thing slot number after "EliteShield"."

 

And ik, this may sound obvious but I am very new to DECOHack. So there is a lot of shit I still don't know.