Creating new inventory items

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Inventory items are special actors that can be picked up and/or placed into a player's or monster's inventory.

To define an inventory item you have to inherit from one of the predefined inventory classes:

• Inventory - used for items without special function.
• PowerupGiver - used for items that give a special powerup to the player
• Health - used for items that immediately increase the player's health
• HealthPickup - used for items that are placed in the inventory and give health when being used.
• BasicArmorPickup - used for armor items
• BasicArmorBonus - used for items that increase the amount of armor
• Ammo - used for ammunition items
• Weapon - used for weapons
• Key - used for keys
• PuzzleItem - used for Puzzle items.
• WeaponPiece - used for weapon pieces. These are used to create weapons that have to be put together from more than one item.
• MapRevealer - used to give the player the automap
• Backpack - used to increase the player's ammo carrying capacity.
• CustomInventory - used to define items with simple DECORATE based behavior.
• FakeInventory - used to replicate simple pickups like the ones defined with the old DECORATE definitions.