Make ash piles disappear?

[cypher2012]

Hey guys, I have some code that goes through an array of actors and sets all critical stage to "CritStage_DisintegrateEnd" to essentially delete them. This works perfectly expect for one scenario.

 

A user of my mod noticed that when using laser rifles, ash piles/puddles are not de-spawned. Does it create a new object?

 

Here's the function where the de-spawning happens

Function ResetActorPool()
    int i = 0
    While i < enemy_actor_pool.Length
	Debug.MessageBox("Actor in pool")
	enemy_actor_pool[i].SetCriticalStage(enemy_actor_pool[i].CritStage_DisintegrateEnd)
	i += 1
    EndWhile
    enemy_actor_pool.Clear()
EndFunction

I used the Message box just so I could check that the code was looping the expected number of times and it is. So the actual actor is in the enemy_actor_pool array, but it's ash pile/puddle doesn't get deleted.

[cypher2012]

I took a look at the documentation and found the CritStage_GooEnd but I can't seem to get it to work. Here is where I have added it:

Function ResetActorPool()
    int i = 0
    While i < enemy_actor_pool.Length
	Debug.MessageBox("Actor in pool")
	enemy_actor_pool[i].SetCriticalStage(enemy_actor_pool[i].CritStage_GooEnd)
	enemy_actor_pool[i].SetCriticalStage(enemy_actor_pool[i].CritStage_DisintegrateEnd)
	i += 1
    EndWhile
    enemy_actor_pool.Clear()
EndFunction

[cypher2012]

It's also probably safe to presume that I will have the same issue with frozen enemies.

[cypher2012]

Having a look through some resources, it seems the ash piles are a separate object.

 

Any idea how can get a reference to the ash piles in the cell? I've been searching the wiki documentation for any functions that kind of look like the fake ones below.

Game.GetAshPiles()
Game.GetObjectOfType(AshPileObject)

[DarkEric99]

Hi, you sayed yesterday that frozen enemies could be concerned, so I gave a look, with a flame-thrower and a cryolator, burned or frozen enemies are rightly deleted.

By the way, all enemies id inside your arena begin by FF, it must be a way to select stuff inside a cell with an id filter, so you just have to delete them the way you want

[skubblebubble]

Don't Call Me Settler has a way of doing it. You could look in there I suppose.

 

It burns the corpses, and those ashpiles do fade out eventually.

[cypher2012]

Hi, you sayed yesterday that frozen enemies could be concerned, so I gave a look, with a flame-thrower and a cryolator, burned or frozen enemies are rightly deleted.

By the way, all enemies id inside your arena begin by FF, it must be a way to select stuff inside a cell with an id filter, so you just have to delete them the way you want

 

Hey, thanks for checking those for me! That's good to know!