Hexen - What's the difference between the flame spawnables?

[ETTiNGRiNDER]

So in the spawnable items list for Hexen, there are two pairs of things that seem to be identical:

T_FLAME_SMALL (66) and T_PERMSMALLFLAME (97)
T_FLAME_LARGE (67) and T_PERMLARGEFLAME (99)

Is there a difference? What's the difference?

[Gez]

ETTiNGRiNDER said:

So in the spawnable items list for Hexen, there are two pairs of things that seem to be identical:

T_FLAME_SMALL (66) and T_PERMSMALLFLAME (97)
T_FLAME_LARGE (67) and T_PERMLARGEFLAME (99)

Is there a difference? What's the difference?

It's a vanilla Hexen thing.

	MT_FLAME_SMALL,			// T_FLAME_SMALL
	MT_FLAME_LARGE,			// T_FLAME_LARGE
...
	MT_FLAME_SMALL_TEMP,		// T_TEMPSMALLFLAME
	MT_FLAME_SMALL,			// T_PERMSMALLFLAME
	MT_FLAME_LARGE_TEMP,		// T_TEMPLARGEFLAME
	MT_FLAME_LARGE,			// T_PERMLARGEFLAME

There are flames, and then there are "permanent" and "temporary" flames. Normal flames are permanent too and they're actually exactly the same thing.

[ETTiNGRiNDER]

Thanks. They're totally redundant, then?

[Gez]

Yep.