Submitted by ProydohaRupert

Submitted by Proydoha via Discord.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/689754804158988319/980253117805395978/Screenshot_Doom_20220529_004331.png

Looking for following enhancements:

• Option to apply health percentage coloring to a monster name so health bar and health percentage can be hidden.
• Fade-in and fade-out so the text doesn't flash/strobe so much as you mouse moves onto and away from monsters during fights.
• Option to make the text appear only if a key is held so it can be used as a name-lookup to learn names of new enemies.

Submitted by Teagan Watson (Teagan Watson#2971) via Discord:

I'm curious if target spy can display shields/armor in hdest.

Submitted by Major Cooke

It's not needed for netplay support. This system was added before I knew how it all works.

Replace periodic cvar getting with transient cvars.

There is a problem of compatibility if run DoomRPG and LegenDoom together.

The solution is simple:

To do line 64: if (a.countInv(legendaryToken) > 0 && a.countInv(drpgToken) == 0)

Please add this.

Submitted by Major Cooke via Discord:

Allow armor to be displayed as a separate bar either above or below the health with the same options as the health. I'm trying to use it as a means of indicating boss phases and it looks a little odd with it displayed as "Armor". Even for non-phase monsters though, that seems a bit odd and a little cluster-some.

To test:

all you have to do is give a zombie green armor, and that should work

I'm running lzdoom in linux aarch64 and get an error when trying to load target-spy.
Script error, "target-spy-v2.0.1.pk3:zscript/ts_external_actor_info_provider.zs" line 30: Unexpected 'abstract' Expecting '.' or 'class' or identifier or 'native' or 'ui' or 'play' or 'version' or 'color' or 'clearscope' or 'int8' or 'uint8' or 'int16' or 'uint16' or 'int' or 'uint' or 'bool' or 'float' or 'double' or 'vector2' or 'vector3' or 'name' or 'sound' or 'state' or 'let' or '@' or 'readonly' or 'map' or 'array' or 'void' or 'action' or 'deprecated' or 'static' or 'private' or 'protected' or 'latent' or 'final' or 'meta' or 'transient' or 'internal' or 'virtual' or 'override' or 'vararg' or 'virtualscope'

Target-spy 1.4.1 also caused an error.
/lzdoom/src/scripting/backend/codegen.cpp:9401: virtual ExpEmit FxFlopFunctionCall::Emit(VMFunctionBuilder*): Assertion 'ValueType == ArgList[0]->ValueType' failed.

Is target-spy compatible with lzdoom? I have used 1.4.1 on other installations with lzdoom in linux aarch64 previously without issues

Submitted by anomyn via Discord.

Submitted by spectrefps via Discord:

for TargetSpy, is it possible to have the crosshair not change color to reflect the enemy health (for example, to remain green) while keeping the health bar? I have been tinkering around with the settings to accomplish this, but it keeps changing the crosshair's color to based on the enemy's health
Currently, I have "show target color" in Precise Crosshair options set to "No". But it seems like TargetSpy overrides this setting
Yeah, I'm just wondering if it'd be possible to make a crosshair in TargetSpy (since I like the style of crosshairs made of ASCII pieces) but have it be static and not react to enemy health (just remain a normal crosshair)
Sometimes I lose it in the mess of a fight once it turns to orange/red. Keeping it bright green helps me keep track of it better

also, could the same thing (static colors, not changing) be applied to the target 'frames' as well?

Warning, Cannot Get Render Mode

ProydohaRupert:

but I don't think it's possible apart from the amounts of health and armor.

Similar to the main overall blacklist, this would effectively allow assignment of which service classes can process an actor and which should be skipped. This will be useful in order to prevent mods from accidentally muddying certain information and prevent incompatibilities.

Using ZJSON the idea would be to keep it simple so the file can be structured like this:

{
	"DoomwiniaTargetSpyService":
	{
		"whitelist":
		[
			"MyZombo",
			"MyShotguy"
		]
	}
}

If #39 becomes a thing, this will be important so the mod runs optimally by only checking on particular service class assigned to the actors within my mod. There will be hundreds, if not thousands of actors all at once so it's imperative to have as few running as possible. Associative Maps may help with this.

Marker: tr_ignore inventory item.

Submitted by Lagi: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=60784&start=150#p1151002

Particularly, this would apply to certain bits of TargetSpy to forcibly enable/disable/alter by the modder's desire.

For on/off checking in GetIntUI, return values are -1 (not shown), 1 (always shown), and 0 (player preference (default)).
The properties would be:

• Active (force TargetSpy to ignore this actor)
• Class Name/Tag
• Health
• Health Bar
• Armor
• Armor Bar
• Boundary Box

The active one is especially important to me because I'm developing a team-based mod where there are many teams, and I want TargetSpy to ignore all units on the player's team, and any units on other teams deemed as allies (a built in system via the mod).

• ShieldDefense
• ShieldDefense2

gametype parameter in GetTarget is always 0, which means no special processing of dehacked-modified games.

Probably there is no issues with Freedoom, as all the actors correspond to non-dehacked-modified Doom.

Submitted by bogus.

if you kill something and then look at something else, it will display the wrong name on the kill confirmation

Submitted by Major Cooke via Discord:

... adding custom text to display under the monster's name.
See the word "Archangel" under Malthael?
In Diablo series, they can even display things like "Immune to Poison" in green. This is something that we could take advantage of with TargetSpy and Service.

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=64566#p1102157

like in Status Widget.

Accensus:

I'd be nice if it could be translated to player color.

Simon the Vile Yet Unthreatening:

I was using Target Spy 1.3 on the GZDoom SVN dated March 5th 2019, with the standard OpenGL renderer

Ribb(· .)n:

I do have the option for putting the nametag over the enemy's head enabled, though

Submitted by Tesculpture: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=60784&p=1107005&sid=311a4d169c693efd33a96b476ea72502#p1107005

Example of monsters with armor: Hell-Forged.

Submitted by Proydoha via Discord.

Submitted by Proydoha via Discord.

TargetSpyError.zip

I'm loading wads from a pk3 and it's a lot of info to see:

[email protected]@Monstername.wad@Decorate

All I want to see is "MonsterName", anything from the first "@" is useless to me

BTW, I'm loving this mod! Thank you for your work on this!

Submitted by BradmanX: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=60784&p=1144975#p1144975

Submitted by MsrSgtShooterPerson:

can we also an option for having the crosshair grow on pickup (as per the vanilla option)?