getspawnid

This function returns the Spawn ID for a given TID. It can be useful for making type or class specific decisions in a script.

function int getspawnid (int tid)
{
    for (int i=1; i<=255; i++)
        if (ThingCount(i, tid))
            return i;

    return 0;
}

This version of the function uses a spawnid array made with a script generator. The benefit here is that the overall number of times the function could possibly need to loop has been cut down from 255 to 104.

int spawnid[104] = {
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27,
    28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56,
    57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 68, 69, 75, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 98, 100, 101, 102,
    103, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127,
    128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 144, 146, 147, 148,
    149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154
};

function int getspawnid (int tid)
{
	for (int i=0; i<104; i++)
		if (ThingCount(spawnid[i], tid))
			return spawnid[i];

	return 0;
}