Re: Inconsistent fall survival & jumpers bouncing off

[Gervase Lam]

Attached is the cvs diff of the changes and zipped up new files I have 
made.  Most of it is in connection with allowing Bombers to move in 
mid-air.

It also sorts out the inconsistent dying of fallers.  Try the fallers.plf 
level before and after applying the patch.  The Pingus should all die from 
falling except the two sets of Pingus to the left of the Danger arrow.

Two other minor things I sorted out:

(1) I was possible to stop a Bomber from counting down and therefore 
blowing up by turning it into a Jumper.  I've now made it so that no 
changes are allowed on Bombers.

I've done a similar thing to Drowners.  However, though it uses up a 
Jumper action, it doesn't save the Pingu from drowning.  Nevertheless, I 
have done a fix for it plus for a few other actions.

(2) Before allowing Bombers to bounce a little, I found that the Pingus 
splashed onto solid ground twice sometimes.  This was because the Pingu as 
a Faller would splash into the ground.

After the countdown for a Bomber had reached zero, the Bomber action 
itself would start.  However, there was also code in the Bomber action to 
start splashing the Pingu if it hit the ground too fast.  So, what was 
happening was that the splash from the fall was being interrupted by the 
splash from the bomber action.

To sort this out, I've added a flag to the Pingu Actions.  By default, a 
countdown action (i.e. Bomber) is allowed to interrupt a Pingu Action.  
However, some actions like Bombers, Exiters, Drowners etc..., this default 
is overridden.

I think that's all the fixes I can remember doing, apart from decreasing 
the acceleration due to gravity.

Thanks,
Gervase.

pingus.200311130028.cvs.diff
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gravitational_mover_files.zip
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