Well. In my wad, I have an old gibbing system that, at random, when the zombies blow up to millions of pieces, the player would say a random quote 'that I have selected'. But now I'm replacing the old one with a more 'lag free' quality. But the thing is, the player quote thing won't work properly. So I want help with making a new one from scratch.

If anyone can help me, I want to try to make a quoting/Taunting script to be somewhat like in Blood or Zombies (CoD) if it is possible. And I want to be able to have different ones for different types of enemies (Zombies, Demons, Aliens, etc.) and we would have to put it that it will only play one sound at a time no matter what.

Is anyone up for the challenge, cause I fail at scripting.

Here is a way to do it:

Make each enemy you want the taunt sound to be played upon its gibbed-death has a A_GiveToTarget with it giving a custom inventory item. This item will be given to the player if he/she gibbs that said enemy. In the PickUp state of the item, use A_PlaySound to play the taunt sound.

Code: ACTOR NC_Zombieman : Zombieman replaces Zombieman {   States   {   XDeath:     TNT1 A 0 A_GiveToTarget("ZombieTaunt", 1)     Goto Zombieman::XDeath   } } ACTOR NC_DoomImp : DoomImp replaces DoomImp {   States   {   XDeath:     TNT1 A 0 A_GiveToTarget("DemonTaunt", 1)     Goto DoomImp::XDeath   } } ACTOR ZombieTaunt : CustomInventory {   States   {   PickUp:     TNT1 A 1 A_PlaySound("baron/death", CHAN_VOICE)     Stop   } } ACTOR DemonTaunt : CustomInventory {   States   {   PickUp:     TNT1 A 1 A_PlaySound("weapons/bfgx", CHAN_VOICE)     Stop   } }

Alright! That's a start... but if more than one enemies gibb at the same time, won't that play all different sounds at the same time? So instead of just one line being said, it would end up saying 5 different lines at the same time and sound very weird. Is there a way to prevent that?

The two taunt items in the example utilize sound channels in their A_PlaySound functions (CHAN_*):
If all the items use the same sound channel then only one sound will be played at a time. That means the code has already solved that problem.

You could always use a little ACS to do things much more cleanly. Give the player a TID and use this, for instance...



And then in your monster code, call this script when one dies. Make sure you use plain ACS_Execute and not ACS_ExecuteAlways and you won't have any nasty overlap, and taunts won't override one another.

@Ceeb: ACS way is "cleaner" and I thought about it but keep in mind that you also need custom damage for the player's weapons as well, because that script will execute even if an enemy gets gibbed by other enemy, not just by the player.

Good point. Rather than call ACS_Execute in the death state, then, you could apply a special to it. Then, if I'm not mistaken, apply the THINGSPEC_TriggerActs activation flag to every monster that should make the player taunt. Then, simply change my script above to use ActivatorSound so the sound automatically comes from the player.

One possible obstacle is that monsters may start taunting then. Funny, yes. Practical, no. But considering a flag exists that allows monsters to trigger thing specials, I don't think it's default behavior.

You can use [wiki]ClassifyActor[/wiki] to make sure it's a Player.

Thanks for all the help you guys! But I'll think I'll stick to Blue Shadow's method for now.
Just one more question. Now I can I get it so that it will play the taunts randomly ? I don't want to have taunts going off all the time. Like, I was thinking about maybe '1 out of 10 kills' of the time, or something like that.

I'm assuming you have a randomized SNDINFO definition. Just throw in a few blank sounds and blam, cheap random.