Hi,

I am not surprised that you have problems. The whole spawn module has been designed by a person who must be nuts. It is unnecessarily convoluted and very hard to understand.

I suspect that the cause of your problem is that you do not modify the 'giType' and 'giTag' fields of the item structure. Try to set them like this:

Code:

ent->item->giType = IT_AMMO;
ent->item->giTag = WP_PLASMAGUN;

Hope this works (I have not tried it, to be honest).

EDIT:

I may have found a better solution. You could try to modify the function 'G_CallSpawn' in 'g_spawn.c'. There is a 'for' loop in which the function tries to find the item with the given classname. I have added the code I think is needed:

Code:

//_SP added
  if (strcmp(ent->classname, "ammo_bfg") == 0)
    strcpy(ent->classname, "ammo_plasma");
//_SP

  // check item spawn functions
  for (item = bg_itemlist + 1; item->classname; item++)
  {

    if (!strcmp(item->classname, ent->classname))
    {
      G_SpawnItem(ent, item);
      return qtrue;
    }
  }

In this way the fully initialized item structure of the plasma ammo is found and used, no need for any further hacking (I think).