Awesome! This spider is fully ready to be resubmitted. ^.^

Also, what happens exactly with the spider when it bugs out? Does the game crash or freeze? Or does it stay in the jumping pose? If it is very serious then I'll wait for that part to be fixed.

No, not that serious. However, it will show the same issue(s) that you reported where it kind of "lands" in mid-air before it actually drops on the floor from the jump. This will happen if the monster jumps off a floor and lands on another that is lower than the one it jumped from. The greater the difference between the floors height the more obvious the issue is.

You can test this yourself if you want, just put the monster on a higher floor while you remain on a lower floor, and when it jumps you'll see the issue. (Don't forget to stand far away from it so there is a chance for it to perform the jump)

Ooooh ok then. I see what is going on. Well that's just great. Is there a code where when it jumps it will just be suspended in that pose until it touches the ground? Like...

If [SpiderInAir = JumpSprite] or else [SpiderOnGround = Walk]

...shows how much I know about coding lol. But is there a code to suspend something until a certain action is done?

Also took a look at the CyberImp because it jumps too. Same thing happens lol. Though it might be different ^.^;

In a way, I guess, but not straight forward like that.

Anyway, here is the fix:

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Note: I've decided to remove the sprites and sounds lumps from the "fix" wads that I upload just to keep the size of the file down. All you need to do is copy all the sprites and sounds lumps from the wad you have to the "fix" wad. (When copying the sprites, don't forget to include the S_START and S_END markers as well)

And here is a test map to go along with it:

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Oh hey! you guys were really lucky, I basically never visit theese forums anymore but i happened to do that today So i see you're wanting it to jump instead of glide. Thing is, this was the original behaviour, If you play Zpack, the Infernal spider is the boss of E3. There it jumps at you instead of glides, The reason I removed this behaviour for the Beastiary submission was that it fucked up in a bunch of different ways.
There just isn't a perfect way of doing the jumping, you can't do a good check for when it lands, because it can either land on the ground or on another thing. perhaps by shooting some sort of dummy actor downwards that is as big as the spider itself to see if it hits something and in that case, make the spider stop and go to the see state would be the most foolproof system. I was just so tired of the monster that I went the lazy way and made it glide like the spiderbosses in tormentors tnt3.

I'll take a look at the code changes you guys have made and report back

I usually check for Z velocity to be close to zero. (within -4 or so). Unfortuntely this occurs after the peak of a jump as well.

I still have the "landing on actors" issue to solve. I tried to check and see if the monster's z-velocity equals to zero, however, that didn't work very well, because jumping between floors with different heights means that the monster's z-velocity will start increasing as it jumps in the air, and after it reaches the peak height of its jump, the velocity will start decreasing and ultimately crossing the zero mark and becoming negative before the monster touchs the lower floor, thus forcing the monster to break from the jump and drops to the ground.

Here is a new fix in case anyone is interested:

The fix addresses a couple of issues:

• The monster is no longer stuck in its jumping pose and unable to move after it lands on top of an obstacle when jumping from a higher floor to a lower one.
• If the monster lands on an obstacle, it'll jump off said obstacle. This is so to keep it from getting stuck.

Very nice update BlueShadow. lol I have a line of imps for the spider and it kept jumping along them. Seriously though, good way to fix this issue.

Has anyone gotten any luck with the height jumping issue yet?

Thanks.

Not really sure which that is, could you explain it to me?