This page heavily uses some information from Duke Nukem 3D Infosuite by Ryan "Nukey" Lennox, please check out his awesome documentation at: http://infosuite.duke4.net/. Some bits have been modified to better suit Ion Fury

Common special "effect" sprites

With Build engine games, it was very common to use special sprites to add behavior in to maps. These effects can range from all sorts of things such as geometry morphing to things like emitting sounds. Since Build map format can only store a limited amount of data, all additional attributes get modified with additional sprites that generally have a specific function. Ion Fury's effect system essentially builds upon the one seen in Duke Nukem 3D but expands the roster and possibilities tremendously. You still have your "bread and butter" tools from Sector effectors to GPSpeed sprites, however most of the cooler logic is done with specifics sprites instead. Generally any effect sprite you place on a map will have various fields that you can set. Typically games only utilized two values: Lotag and Hitag that you can set with ALT T and ALT H while pointing at a sprite (these two values also exist for sectors via T and H). It isn't always intuitive on what each of these tag fields do so you will need to refer to the on-screen help or references quite a bit to see what is what. Do not worry if you can't remember them all, nobody does! :)

In Ion Fury, we use not just 2 or 3 tags but up to 8! These are: Lotag, Hitag, Extra, Xvel, Yvel, Zvel, Owner, Blend. This approach allows many of the new effects to be highly customizable and easier to edit in one place rather than being split between 3 or more further sprites just to describe things like speed and such.

What are Channels and Pairing tags ?

Many effects rely on remote triggering or linking two points together. Say you want to create a teleporter, or you create monster closet that you want to open once a player trips a touchplate, you have to somehow have two points communicate with each other. Remember those tags we talked about? A single value in these can be used as a linking tag or as a channel.
There is some degree of consistency for most effects: Anything that requires pairing, it's done with Hitag and anything that is trigger related (switches/activation), it's Lotag. Due to the increased amount of tags in Fury, the linking tags might vary quite a bit depending on use. However I highly recommend double checking any documentation on these. Many effects in Fury started simple but later on mappers ended up demanding more flexibility, due to this reason the linking tag or channel isn't always consistent.

In other words: Think of channels as literal radio channels that effects can tune in to. When someone presses a switch, it will say "Fire!" to that channel and any effects that are tuned to this channel will activate. For pairings like rotating sectors which need a pivot/hinge, the term channel is exchanged for pairing tag i.e. SE0 Hitag and SE1 Hitag are clearly used for cross-communication between each other but they will not react to any triggers. In most cases the numbers will have no overlap between regular channels but with some effects the Pairing tag also doubles as a channel input.

Effects above SE64 are new to Ion Fury and generally do not rely on activator or masterswitch operation.

1 Sector effector

These sprites can do anything from rotating sectors to escalators. For Fury, we added a new range of effects and expanded on some existing ones slightly. Usually the sprites do exactly what it says on the tin: Make sectors do something cool. These used to be your main tool in Duke3D mapping. Since the effect is extremely multi-purpose, I will list all the Lotag variants below. A common way of referring to Sector effectors is by their Lotag, i.e. whenever you see SE7 mentioned, it refers to a Sector effector with Lotag 7

• Any effect with ! in front is a remnant from it's earlier development or Duke3D and isn't really recommended (or even tested) for use.
• With pretty much all sector effector sprites, you will have to use an Activator or Masterswitch to activate the effect.
• Effects above SE64 are new to Ion Fury and generally do not rely on Activator or Masterswitch operation.

SE 0 Rotate sector

Used to either rotate or spin a sector. Rotation happens around a pivot point sprite SE1.
Alternate functionality exists when used with Sector tag 30 (Rotate-rise sector), which is documented under that sector tag.
For finer rotation control, you may want to use SE72, which is new and specific to Ion Fury.

• Hitag Pairing tag This should match Hitag of a pivot sprite SE1

• Angle Rotation mode Based on the sprite's tail pointing direction

  DOWN Rotate, Rotate sector around SE1

  UP Rotate & spin, Rotates sector AND pivot around SE1.

Notes

• If Relative bit R is set on the floor and/or ceiling, the texture will move along with the sector
• If Relative bit R is set on the floor, the sector will carry most sprites.
• Rotation speed can be adjusted with GPSpeed's Lotag

SE 1 Rotation pivot

Used as a rotation axis for SE0 or Rotate ride door This pivot sprite will not work with SE72, please use SE71 for that instead.

• Hitag Pairing tag This should match Hitag of a pivot sprite SE1

• Angle Direction Based on the sprite's tail pointing direction

  DOWN Clockwise, Will rotate sector clockwise

  UP Counter clockwise, Will rotate sector counter-clockwise

SE 2 ! Earthquake

A combination effect that manipulates wallpoints, spawns debris, shakes the screen and plays sounds for about 4 secnds.
In Ion Fury, use of this effect is not recommended as it relies on many hardcoded Duke3D specific assets that no longer exist. A combination of SE73 SE76 and SE75 will achieve the same effect with much more control over the outcome.

• Angle Direction Sector will be shifted towards this direction by ~9 grid spaces on grid size 6

Notes

• Not compatible with Activator, you must use a Masterswitch
• Should be constructed in pre-sloped state as it will be flattened in-game. Maximum sloping value it supports is 3 key presses on [ ].
• Any static sprites placed on this sector will keep jittering after the effect has taken place.

SE 3 ! Flickering light when shot

Essentially an on-demand activated SE3 after a light source gets shot. First acts as a light that you can toggle on/off but if a wall or ceiling light gets shot, it turns in to a flickering light.
When shot part (Hitag) will not work with Ion Fury but you may use light switch properties otherwise.

• Hitag Channel Matching Wall Lotag or Sector Hitag with a breakable texture
• Shade Brightness Should be set to the on state brightness and sector should represent off state
• Palette Colouring What the palette should be in on state, sector represents off

Notes

• Wall palette changes will be permanent
• Lights will not always flicker after getting destroyed
• Compatible with SE12, allowing lights to be toggled on/off before entering flicker state.

SE 4 Flickering light

Will flicker a sector's light on/off randomly

• Hitag RNG seed Flicker pattern modifier, arbitrary number
• Shade Brightness Should be set to the on state brightness and sector should represent off state
• Palette Colouring What the palette should be in on state, sector represents off Notes
  • For RNG seed, ideally every light source in a map should have unique numbers and every sector belonging to a light source must share the same number

SE 5 ! Helicopter

This is a cut effect from Duke3D that is heavily buggy, it was intended for a helicopter boss fight at top of the U.S. Bank tower. This effect will work even worse in Ion Fury and using it is not really recommended at all.

SE 6 ! Subway engine

Used to move a sector around a set path indicated by Locator sprites. Can be combined with SE14 to introduce additional trailing sectors. Most commonly used to create subway trains.

• Hitag Path position Set this equal to the first Locator's Lotag to visit
• Sector Hitag "Car" number This sector and the nested sectors must share this value
• Angle Bearing SE Sprite's tail indicates the front of the train

Notes

• If Relative bit R is set on the floor and/or ceiling, the texture will move along with the sector .
• If Relative bit R is set on the floor, the sector will carry most sprites.
• To have a sound, you must insert a MFX sprite with Lotag = Sound number in the same sector as the Sector effector sprite
• Movement speed can be adjusted with GPSpeed's Lotag in the engine sector.
  • You will only need to do this once as all trailing cars will use the same speed.
  • When adjusting speed, it will also affect how long the train pauses during station breaks
  • A value less than 65 will disable any sounds
• A Subway Vehicle with a parallaxed floor will attempt to fire rockets at the player, this will not be handled properly in Fury and will eventually end up in a sprite overflow crash! Use a floor Palette higher than 0 to fix this.
• A Subway Vehicle with a parallaxed floor or ceiling will not play sound effects.
• All Subway Vehicles must start in the track sector, and the track cannot be split into multiple sectors. The track sector is still allowed to be complex, the important thing is that all of the Locators are contained within the same sector
• All nested sectors must be contained within a single bounding sector containing the SE
• Vehicles cannot move up or down slopes

SE 7 Teleport, 2-way (water/land)

Teleports the player between A <-> B sectors of identical shape. SE7 acts as a SOURCE and DESTINATION where SE23 is only DESTINATION. If placed on a sector with Lotag 1 (liquid/submergible) it will work as a water teleporter instead. If raised from the ground, it will be Z based.

• Hitag Linking tag Matching SE7 Hitag or SE23 Hitag

• Sector Lotag Teleporter mode

  0 Normal Regular ground teleportation

  1 Water, above Makes the ground submersible when combined with SE7

  2 Water, below Makes the ceiling surface able when combined with SE7

• Palette Cosmetics UNUSED IN ION FURY

  0 Normal Play sound and flash when used

  1 or more Silent No sound or flashing

• Floor palette Liquid type Modifier for slime/water/etc

  0 Water Play sound and flash when used

  **Brownpal Brown goo

  **Nukagepal Nukage - If using Normal Teleporter mode, you can turn the operation to be Z based instead of sector based. To do this, raise the sprite from the ground. Now the teleportation will happen ONLY once the specific height is reached. Useful for manholes and such. This teleportation will be instant and play no sounds or other flashy things. - Valid player space must exist on the destination sector, this also means that destination sector can theoretically be larger the source. - While Liquid type only requires the surface palette to be done, this should be done on the underwater "ceiling" as well to achieve proper visual consistency. - You may toggle this effect's state with Activatorlocked - In normal operation, there is a slight delay for any projectile or player/actor that passes through the teleporter. - If there is a conflict between sprite multiple destinations that share Hitag, the sprite with the lowest sprite number index will be picked (oldest).

SE 8 ! Triggered light: When door opens

Similar to SE LightFX but triggered when a ST based door opens, also compatible with some other effects. One of these sprites has to be in a sector with an "opening effect", i.e. ST20

• Hitag Channel This should be shared AND unique for each door light setup
• Shade Brightness Should be set to the on state brightness and sector should represent off state
• Palette Colouring What the palette should be in on state, this will be permanent!
  • Also compatible with Activator Activatorlocked and Masterswitch
  • Compatible with SE31 and SE32
  • Some degree of compatibility with GPSpeed but use is not recommended

SE 9 Triggered light: When door closes

Similar to other SE LightFX but triggered when a ST based door closes, also compatible with some other effects. One of these sprites has to be in a sector with an "opening effect", i.e. ST20

• Hitag Channel This should be shared AND unique for each door light setup
• Shade Brightness Should be set to the on state brightness and sector should represent off state
• Palette Colouring What the palette should be in on state, this will be permanent!
  • Height of the SE9 on the door sector determines the closing height
  • Also compatible with Activator Activatorlocked and Masterswitch
  • Compatible with SE31 and SE32
  • Some degree of compatibility with GPSpeed but use is not recommended

SE 10 Auto-close door

Automatically re-toggles doors and various other moving sector effects after a certain time has passed. Primary function is to auto-close a door after a few seconds.

• Hitag Linking tag Link this with X

  0 Normal, Example flag

SE 11 Rotating door hinge

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 12 Triggered light: Switch / Touchplate

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 13 Explodable wall or ceiling

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 14 Subway car/train

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 15 Sliding door

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 16 ! Rotate sector & Piston - Reactors only

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 17 Transport elevator

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

18 Incremental sector rise/fall

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 19 ! Ceiling fall

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 20 Stretching/Compressing sector, bridge

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 21 ! Floor rise

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 22 ! Teeth door

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 23 Teleport, exit only

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 24 Conveyor Belt: Normal speed

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

25 Piston, crushing ceiling

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 26 Escalator

Example text

• Hitag Linking tag Link this with X

  0 Normal, Example flag

SE 27 ! Demo camera for autodemo

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 28 ! Lightning bolt

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 29 Floating sector, floor

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 30 Two way train

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 31 Move sector Floor Z

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 32 Move sector Ceiling Z

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 33 ! Earthquake debris

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 34 Conveyor belt: Half speed

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 35 ! Drill

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

SE 36 ! Shooter

{to be done}

• {tag} {title} {text}

  {flag} {title}, {text}

64 Hub transition: Load new area

For Hub map usage. Transition the player to a new map section. This pairs with SE65 to determine where to place the player in the next area.

Raise this SE off of the ground to make the transition point require passing this sprite's z.

Note: Requires Hubmap Section (5904) to tell SE64 which section the current map is.

• Hitag Linking tag Pair with destination SE65
• Extra Map section to load Specify which section should be loaded (0 to 63). Internal math will use the currently defined Hubmap Section to determine which map file to load next
• Shade Campaign/Episode Determined by levels.con, this is 0 for the default Capital Offense campaign
• Xvel Linking tag for remote trigger Although you may forcibly trigger SE64, doing so can put the player out of bounds in the next map unless great care is taken
• Zvel Skip Autosave Set this to 1 to disable autosaving on the next map load

SE 65 Hub transition: Destination marker

Example text

• Hitag Linking tag Link this with X

  0 Normal, Example flag

SE 66 Rain spawner

SE 67 Sector attribute copy: Destination

SE 68 Sector attribute copy: Source

SE 69 Texture panner

SE 70 Hazardous sector

SE 71 Pivot for SE72 (New rotate)

SE 72 "New" Rotate sector

SE 73 Change sector slope: Floor

SE 74 Change sector slope: Ceiling

SE 75 Wallpoint dragger

SE 76 Screen shaker

SE 77 Teleport, triggered

SE 78 Firstwall changer

SE 79 Floating sector, ceiling

SE 80 Triggered Hub transition: Departure

SE 100 Skybox

SE 101 Move skybox camera

SE 102 Remove Objects (dangerous)

SE 127 Anchor point for SE31/SE32

SE 200 Cross-map trigger transfer

SE 201 Invincible fade-to-white

SE 420 Enemy Electrocution Death

2 Activator

For any sector effector, you usually need something to activate it.

This, along with Masterswitch #8 are the only way to trigger non-fury specific behavior. Once triggered, it will immediately activate all non-fury specific inside the sector. Reason why Fury doesn't use this method is that the added tags allow us to skip this altogether and have effects inside a sector be triggered individually instead of simultaneously. When placed on most doors, it will lock the door and only allow opening them when the Input channel is triggered

3 Touchplate

Legacy touchplate, in most cases you will want to use 5896 Touchplate Plus instead.

4 Activatorlocked

Locks door operation until triggered

5 Music and FX

Used to add door/ambient sounds

6 Locator

Multi-purpose path indicator

7 Cycler

Fading lights

8 Masterswitch

Similar to Activator but is single use. It also has the possibility to add a forced delay, which allows some limited additional control when doing more complex sequences. Unlike Activator, this will not lock any doors when placed on one.

9 Respawn (legacy)

Legacy respawn sprite, in most cases you will want to use 5915 Respawn 2.0 (NEW!) instead. Press CTRL ALT Q to upgrade any R that you are pointing at.

10 GPSpeed

General Purpose Speed, internally this modifies the extra of a sector. Most common use case is to place these on moving sectors to adjust their movement speed.

1247 Explosion FX

This is an adaptation of the old SEENINE from Duke 3D, however we hijacked this completely and demoted it to an invisible effect that has much more flexibility than before. Not to mention that unlike Duke, this is invisible regardless of size. It is highly recommended that Remove Masterswitch requirement (Yvel 1) is used. If you do complex sequences, keep in mind that every explosion that damages will call hitradius, which is not very performant. Instead of using 10 damaging explosions, keep it to 2-3 while rest are purely visual and you can instead tick the damage scale up a tiny bit.

• Lotag Explosion delay Forced detonation delay once triggered, 30 units ~ 1 second
• Hitag Linking tag Normally this also requires a Masterswitch for activation unless Yvel bit 1 is true

• Palette Behavior modifiers Defaults to 0

  0 Normal, this does Damage / Sound / Visuals

  1 Damage only, don't show any visuals or sounds

  9 Cosmetic, removes all damage instead

  10 Only visuals, removes all sounds too

  11 Only audio, removes all sounds too

• Xvel Damage scale _Multiplies inflicted damage with this value, 2-10 supported. Useful for making sure things gib the player or enemies.

• Yvel Trigger modifiers Defaults to 0

  0 Normal

  1 Remove Masterswitch requirement, explosion will only require a trigger from Hitag

  2 Allow Re-triggering the explosion, recommended that you combine with Yvel 1

• Size Explosion size _Adjustment on sprite sizing will make the explosion larger or smaller, along with appropriate sounds.

3744 Sector switch

Allows you to operate sectors as buttons. This allows creation of complex doors, elevators and buttons that do not natively support direct use without a touchplate or button operation. By default this effect only works on floors, however..

• Lotag Output channel

• Extra Behavior modifiers

  1 USE works with ceilings instead of floor

  2 USE works everywhere, as long as the player is IN the same sector

3745 Multiswitch, aka. Trigger Multiplexer / Relay

One input and one or more outputs. Default behavior is that once INPUT gets triggered, it will output a channel (100 in this example). Next use will trigger 100 again but also 101, one after that is 101 and 102. One example use is to have 3 doors, each having 100 / 101 / 102, each use would close the previous one and open the next one. Can be set to optionally loop, forced delays make it nice for having it as a single "buffer relay" as well if needed.

• Lotag Input channel
• Hitag Output channel Base channel
• Extra Additional channels Output range will be: BASE to BASE+EXTRA
• Xvel Forced delay Time in ticks (30 ~ 1 second) before another trigger is allowed

• Yvel Behavior modifiers

  1 Reverse direction once end is reached

  2 Skip re-triggering previous tag, output will be: A-B-C-D instead of default: AB-BC-CD-..

  4 Turn off once end is reached, normal behavior will loop back to beginning

  8 Skill based, ignore extra and use skill value instead. This allows you to create triggers that fire off different sequences based on player skill. NOTE You must have the correct skill selected in-game when loading the map or it will not be initialized for the correct skill.

3746 Combination lock

Listen for a sequence of inputs and depending on behavior modifiers will accept the input sequence. This effect has two major operation modes: Sequence & Combination. It is recommended that you use the built-in sequencer available from SHIFT W once prompted.

• Input channels You have six channels: Lotag > Hitag > Extra > Xvel > Yvel > Zvel. Channels left unpopulated will be skipped. i.e. for a combination of 3, you just need to define Lotag Hitag Extra, rest can be left as 0.

• Owner Output channel Toggled once the Input sequence checks out

• Palette Operation mode

  • Sequences 1,2,9

    Piano modes allow chaining Output to another Combo-lock's Input, allowing VERY long sequences to be constructed!
    
    

    1 "Piano sequence" Listens for a sequence but has the ability to monitor channels beyond the ones used in the sequence. Wrong key press to these will reset the whole sequence.
    NOTE: You will lose 6th Input Zvel in this mode!

    Zvel Monitor base channel Generally this is set to the lowest tag in the set piano keys

    Blend Monitor additional channels i.e. if base is 300 and piano keys end at 336, set this to 36
    
    

    2 "Piano sequence", Single use Same as above but one successful use will disable it permanently
    
    

    9 Sequence, Single use Listens for a sequence: Lotag > Hitag > Extra > Xvel > Yvel > Zvel and triggers Owner once matched. If tags are left 0 then they will be skipped.

  • Combination 10,11

    To use these efficiently, set the CSTAT (transparency) of the combo-lock sprite to the 2nd level as it will enable Logical AND.
    
    

    10 All on Expects a certain on/off combination from the 6 Inputs.

    11 All on, single use Same as above but will never revert/re-trigger the output once reached for the first time

• CSTAT Upside down If at any point the combination gets broken after reaching it, the output will be re-triggered.
  
  

Note: By giving an Input channel a negative value, the combo lock expects it to be off.
For example, a button chain that is to be X o X X o the tags should be set: A -B C D -E

5885 Soda machine

A very basic setup, red part will show roughly where the cans will dispense.

• Palette Modifiers

  0 Default

  9 90 rotated, Will offset the dispensing slightly to allow 90' rotated dispensers (fallen down)

5887 Locked door sound

Used to tell when a door is locked. Place it in front of a door and stretch it to fit. It will be made invisible ingame.

• Lotag Sound effect See F2 for a full list of sounds, defaults to #1535
• Hitag Toggle channel Will enable or disable the effect

• Palette Modifiers

  0 Start enabled

  9 Start disabled

5888 Ladders (A_LADDER)

Place this flatly in front of whatever you want to be climbable. This should be at least one of the smallest grid units away from a wall.

The player will climb within the area of the ladder sprite. They will stop when the top or bottom is reached. No tags required by default. Note: Please leave head clearance for dismount.

Attributes

• Lotag Toggle channel Will enable or disable the ladder, a negative value will start disabled

• Hitag Surface type Modifies step/movement sounds

  0 Default (custom metallic)

  1 Stone

  2 Tile

  3 Metal

  4 Glass

  5 Wood

  6 Dirt

  7 Grass

  8 Water

  9 Slime

  10 Light

  11 Electrical

  12 Paper

  13 Plastic

  14 Fabric

  15 Carpet

• Palette Modifiers

  0 Default

  5 Extension - If use is pressed flip the player 180° and push down to main ladder

  9 Push player up and forward at end of climb

5889 Clip barrier

Invisible sprite that acts as a collision for the player or bullets.

• Hitag Toggle channel Will enable or disable the clipping

• **Palette Toggle initial state

  0 Start enabled

  9 Start disabled

• If made Hitscan with H then it will also block bullets

5890 Particle spawner

5891 Door Smooth

This is a general purpose hack sprite with three main purposes: Add easing to doors & Allow MFX sounds over 999 & Toggle lights when opened. Default function for smoothing and MFX does not need any additional tags.

• This effect is compatible with the following:

  ST20 Ceiling door All functions, also PAL9

  ST21 Floor door All functions, also PAL9

  ST22 Split door All functions, no PAL9

  ST15 / SE25 Slide door Smoothing enabled by default, DS needed for LightFX and MFX

  ST23 / SE11 Swinging door Smoothing enabled by default, DS needed for LightFX and MFX

  SE31 Floor Z Only smoothing supported, slightly janky

  SE32 Ceiling Z Only smoothing supported, slightly janky

• Easing movement The good old acceleration/slowdown that is seen in games such as Blood, when you open a door, instead of constant speed it will have easing to it's movement, giving a much nicer smooth appearance
• MFX "fix" Once placed on a door, any MFX sprite with a sound number of 1000 or over will work properly.
  
  
• Hitag Output channel DS has the ability to toggle lights and other triggers as you open a door

• Palette Acceleration modifier

  0 Ramp up on start, slow down before the end

  9 Ramp up on start, do not slow down before the end.

5892 End Of Level (EOL)

Immediately end the level and show the stats screen. This is what's used between zones in the main game. By default, this is walk-on triggered.

• Lotag Next map index Next map part is taken from levels.con where 0 is the first map
• Hitag Next campaign/episode index Next episode part is taken from levels.con where 0 is the default campaign (Capital Offense)
• Yvel Input channel Remote trigger EOL with this channel

• Pal Modifier This allows two additional EOL types from default

  0 Normal Shows the level end screen and load the level specified

  8 Ending Shows the full ending scene, including stats. Exits to main menu

  9 Preview ending Shows teaser screen for main campaign. Exits to main menu

5893 Secrets left / PONR

5894 Heskelcast

Heskel's face will appear on nearby monitors (a minimum of 7), when this effect is triggered. All selected monitors will play a specified sound for a duration set by the mapper. Monitors are turned off (no display) at the end of the broadcast.

Note: CRT style and Plot related (Generator On/Off images, etc) are excluded from selection.

Attributes

• Lotag Linking tag to activate
• Hitag Sound number This is the number of the sound that will be played back by each monitor. When unset (Less than or equal to 0) this defaults to S_HES_X_JUMBOTRON (3870)
• Extra Duration of broadcast This is the length of time in tics Heskel's face will appear and the sound defined by Hitag will play. When unset(Less than or equal to 0) this defaults to 140
• Yvel Number of monitors The number of monitors that will be changed is modified by this value. It is clamped to between and including 7 and 30
• Pal Display Modifier _When set to Pal 9 the broadcast style becomes a Red, sinister, flickering Heskel face.
• Xvel Sound Modifier When set to 1 a "global" version of the Hitag sound will play in addition to the monitor sounds

5895 Waypoint

This is normally unused in maps, although a hidden setting exists to place a fresh Waypoint sprite in a room with Pal 9 to cause it to draw enemies toward itself for 5 seconds.

5896 Touchplate Plus

The bread and butter when it comes to doing more complex effects.
Any channel which is output from this will operate virtually any effect, door, sprite which has an 'Input' channel specified. This includes but not limited to: Activator, Masterswitch, Other TP+, any of the new SE exclusive to Fury, other special sprites like EOL and particles.
In other words: You will use this a lot.

While you can simply output Hitag directly, the true power is in Lotag and Extra, which allow you to trigger for example 10 consecutive channels with a 30tick (5s) delay in between, however each of these 10 can point to another TP+ which in turn can trigger further actions or more chains. On paper you end up with a 50 second timeline where every 5 seconds you can have something cool happen, since not every tag has to be used, you can create some very neat sequences. In fact, the whole "queen of the hill" mode has been created with these sprites: Each wave is just a new newsted TP+ sequence :)

Attributes

• Hitag Output channel Base channel that gets output immediately once triggered

• Lotag Additional channels Output range will be: BASE to BASE+HITAG

• Extra Delay before next channel Time to wait before moving to next channel in ticks (30t ~ 1s). Internally the lowest value will always be 1 due to how the code executes.

• Palette Usage modifiers

  0 Single use, Normal operation mode

  9 Multiple use, When placed on a door trigger, it will cause the door to reset without any re-trigger

• Owner Input channel, ACTIVATE Allows remote activation without any door or touchplate, i.e. switch or enemy kill

• Yvel Input channel, DISABLE When in a disabled state, the TP+ will not send any Output triggers.
  Note: Any activations will be queued and triggered once the TP+ is enabled again. Use Xvel 512 to change this.
  You must combine this with either 'Yvel 16' or 'Yvel 32'.

  Positive value Disabled, Start in disabled state

  Negative value Enabled, Start in enabled state

• Zvel Grouping tag for deletion Other Touchplate Plus sprites sharing this Zvel tag will be deleted when one of them activates

• Xvel Modifier Flags These act as bit flags and should be added together

  1 Count backward, for Lotag multi-activation.

  2 Loop multi-activation cycle, When used with Pal 9 there may be unintended results

  4 Start squished If placed in a door, and the door is closed, do not trigger until initial door state changes.

  8 Ignore player A Touchplate without touch..., will still react to doors and owner

  16 Yvel is multi use, enable/disable can be toggled repeatedly

  32 Yvel is single use, enable/disable toggle state will be permanent once triggered

  64 Always door trigger, For multi-activation — Reactivate always when a door changes state vs. only when squished

  128 Ignore Zvel, setting on this sprite. Can still be deleted by other Touchplate Plus sprites.

  256 Owner auto-start, If Owner is > 0 then activate this sprite immediately on startup

  *512 Do not queue, If Yvel is > 0 then activation of Owner will not be queued

5897 Music and FX Plus

Play sounds on demand. Various parameters allow anything from pitch shifting to looping. Downside is that there is little to no volume or distance control, sounds will always be played at a "normal volume"

5899 Sound emitter (unused in maps)

5900 LightFX

This is used to trigger Shade (and Pal) shifting in a sector — to both brighten and darken — and can overlap. Ceilings, floors, and walls can be exempted individually. Since the shift is relative it allows a wide range of light effects never before possible.

This effector can act either as a Light or as a Flicker Controller. Each time a Light goes through a change is referred to as a Cycle_
You may use SHIFT CTRL X to toggle light preview on/off when in 3D mode

Attributes

First you must choose the Operation mode which will determine what the rest of the tags will do.

• Extra Operation mode

  0 or lower Light

  1 or higher Flicker controller
  

Operation: Light

The usual light that can be operated by switches or anything that sends a Channel, including DS

• Hitag Stepping speed Default speed of 1 is 30 units per second. Shade should always divide with Hitag.
  For example: +12 Shade should have Hitag values of 1 2 3 4 6.
  Generally sectors furthest from the light source should turn off first so this can used as a tool
• Lotag Input channel Triggering this will toggle the light on or off
• Xvel Delay steps Forced delay between steps, where every unit is worth 33.3ms.
  i.e. a value of 2 will only change Hitag units of shade every other tick (15 times per second vs. 30).
• Pal Palette to apply The palette all surfaces affected by this Light should change to, see: https://furymap.lerppu.net/references/palette for a full list
• Shade Brightness/shade offset Lights act as a relative adjustment, so for example — If a Sector Floor is Shade 4 and this Light has Shade -4, when activated the Sector Floor will become Shade 0

• Yvel Modifier Flags These act as bit flags and should be added together

  1 Skip ceilings, Do not affect Ceilings

  2 Skip floors, Do not affect Floors

  4 Skip walls, Do not affect Walls

  8 Force palette, Set the palette on surfaces even if Palette is 0

  16 Flat sprite override, Affect Wall Aligned (sprite cstat 16) sprites even when Yvel flag 4 is set

  32 Delay palette restore, When turning off, delay palette change until after shade changes are finished

  64 Adjust parallax, Change ceiling shade even when parallaxed (ceiling stat 1)

Operation: Flicker controller

The value of Extra then becomes the delay — in tics (30 = 1sec) — before a Light will (potentially) Cycle_

There are two more main modes: Always flicker and Flicker when triggered.
Pay close attention since the functions of Hitag and Lotag can switch places.

• Always flicker

  Hitag must be 0

  Lotag of Controller must match Lotag of "slave" Light sprites that you wish to control

• Flicker when triggered

  Hitag of Controller must match Lotag of "slave" Light sprites that you wish to control

  Lotag of Controller acts as an Input toggle channel for switches and triggers

• Extra Flicker frequency Adds a forced delay in ticks (30t = ~1s) before a light will potentially cycle

• Xvel Modifier Flags These act as bit flags and should be added together

  1 Remove Randomization from flicker`

  2 Reset lights, If triggered, Lights will reset back to their starting state

  4 Start Enabled, Flicker controller will start in 'on' state

• Zvel Delay before reset When Xvel flag 2 is set this is a forced delay before the reset in tics (30t ~ 1s)

5901 Proximity sensor

5902 Dialog trigger

5903 Movego

The "secret sauce" abused by mappers throughout the project. This effector is just a simple sprite that checks for any movement in its sector's firstwall and shoves all sprites inside around in the direction of its angle when that happens. This is by default regardless of the type of sprite — meaning other effectors as well.

5904 Hubmap section

Indicates which area/part the map is in the current zone

• Hitag Level part Set this to current map's level part, start from 0

5905 Autosave trigger

Creates a new checkpoint save as soon as the player on the sector

• Hitag Input channel Adds linking tag for activation

• Lotag Multi activation Requires Hitag to be above 0

  0 Single use

  1 or more Multi-use

5906 PLAYER - Get the fuck out

Used to push away nasty speedrunners (and nasty players) from sectors. In reality it's a handy tool to work around collision bugs. Default state is Enabled.

• Lotag Input channel Toggle state

• Hitag Behavior modifiers

  0 Normal , Magic invisible wall

  1 Push player , Magic invisible force compels you

  2 Reject bombs, Reject bowlingbombs

  4 Ignore player, Useful for allowing bomb-only pushing

• Palette Initial state

  0 Start enabled

  `9 Start disabled

5907 Toilet effector

Turns toilet sector work in to an actual functional toilet by somewhat cleverly manipulating height/sloping and textures of the toilet itself. This generally does not get built manually so I would highly recommend using the template from the sample maps.

5908 Tainted sector

Prevents decals from spawning in this sector, used to prevent stuff like floating bullet holes etc..

5909 PLAYER - Z fall killer

Player death pit, if the player is in the same sector as this sprite and below it, you will get a prompt for optional screaming.

5910 Particle shooter

Shoots particles

5911 ENEMY - Z fall killer

Enemy death pit, if the enemy is in the same sector as this sprite and below it, the enemy will die.

5912 Secret area trigger

Trigger a secret without relying on sector Lotag 32767.

5913 Shelly speech

Used to output speech lines, internally this is a sound that is not positional. It is compatible with other sounds as well.

5914 Horde mode attributes

Some initialization attributes and tells the horde-routine how many spawns to kill there are per wave.

5915 Respawn 2.0 (NEW!)

New respawn setup that can pass virtually all attributes to the spawned sprite

5916 "Music beast"

Used for changing music

5917 "Quote buster"

Display quotes on demand, can also override the default message of Unlocked/Locked from activatorlocked

5931 Chest effector

Turns chest sector work in to an actual functional chest by somewhat cleverly manipulating height/sloping and textures of the chest itself. This generally does not get built manually so I would highly recommend using the template from the sample maps.

5932 ENEMY - Get the fuck out

Used to push away nasty nasty enemies from sectors. In reality it's a handy tool to work around collision bugs. Default state is Enabled.

• Lotag Input channel Toggle state

• Hitag Behavior modifiers

  0 Every enemy , Block all

  1 Every enemy , Block all

  2 Ground only, Block only ground enemies

  4 Aerial TROR hack, Tells drones and deacons that the there is room below the TROR layer

• Palette Initial state

  0 Start enabled

  `9 Start disabled

10280 Fan