[Discussion] Generic X3TC S&M questions II

[EmperorJon]

And does that simply change the amount produced or the amount it holds?

[Gazz]

Both. You cannot change these values independantly.

[EmperorJon]

Ah good.

As long as it edited the number held.
The factories don't actually produce anything, so that's ok.

[EmperorJon]

Just stumbled across a common sense problem for the random asteroid script...

4 Booleans, do you want Ore, Ice, Sil, Niv...

Problem is, the asteroids are set to have a random subtype between 0 and 3, with it being 0 for ore, 1 silicon, 2 niv and 3 for ice...

How would I set it up so any combination would work!?

I need to basically say, random number out of any of these 4 marked as true, and I'm having a mental blank... is there any way to put the 4 numbers in an array then tell it to grab a random value out of the array?

[mark_a_condren]

Ejon,

$subtype.array = array alloc size = 0

skip if not $ore.ast.TF = [TRUE]
| append 0 to array $subtype.array

skip if not $sil.ast.TF = [TRUE]
| append 1 to array $subtype.array

skip if not $niv.ast.TF = [TRUE]
| append 2 to array $subtype.array

skip if not $ice.ast.TF = [TRUE]
| append 3 to array $subtype.array

$size = size of array $subtype.array
if $size > 0
| $rand = get random value between 0 and $size -1
| $rand.sub.type = $subtype.array [$rand]
| create asteriod: subtype $rand.sub.type .....
end

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[EmperorJon]

Was just about there...

[EmperorJon]

Is there a command in the script editor I can use to destroy an asteroid and create the correct debris? If you just destroy it the debris disappears...

[UniTrader]

get the Ressource Type and the Yield, destroy the Asteroid and create Debris with the same Mineral and Yield on its position (or put in some random factor)

[EmperorJon]

Is that how the game does it?

[jlehtone]

Is that how the game does it?

Probably not quite, but almost.

Remember that Asteroids do respawn. Therefore, "blow up" does not mean same as "destroy". I would implement "vanilla blow up" as:
1. Make invisible
2. Create debris
3. Start re-spawn timer

And therefore the respawn would be a simple:
1. Make visible (with "avoid in-sector collision")

[EmperorJon]

Considering they're not vanilla asteroids, they are ones I've added, that's unecessary.

The problem at the moment is, upon me saying 'destroy' they, obviously, break apart into the debris, then the debris disappears, but I can't find any way of actually creating the right sized debris in the right place by the right rotation... what could I do?

[UniTrader]

Remember that Asteroids do respawn. Therefore, "blow up" does not mean same as "destroy". I would implement "vanilla blow up" as:
1. Make invisible
2. Create debris
3. Start re-spawn timer

And therefore the respawn would be a simple:
1. Make visible (with "avoid in-sector collision")

that is not necesary because this will be done by the Game Engine - you have to tell it specificallty that it mustn't respawn an Asteroid before you destroy it.. (can be done with "disable Ship" )


@EJ no idea, but since the Destruction Animation of the big Asteroid is iirc always the same create one in the Sector center, destroy it and save the Coordinates of some debris until you have them all, then you just need some trigonometry to calculate the debris position for every Position and Angle in the Sector

[EmperorJon]

I was doing that, but I can't seem to find the correct debris to use, and it's going to be so hard ot fit them into position.

[Chestburster2]

Question ->

How can i edit the color of a bullet? Changing the RGB value inside the TBullets wont work.

[s9ilent]

The rgb values in the tfiles are just (correct me if I'm wrong) the emissive light source values of the bullet, not the actual diffuse texture.

The actual "colour" of the bullet, is defined by it's model/texture (and most projectiles tend to use just the one "star" texture, repeated several times, so you should be able to modify that)

[Chestburster2]

Ah, thx s9ilent! Changed the PRG from yellow to red and it worked. now i just need to figure out which texture belongs to each bullet.

[EmperorJon]

The PRG is red...?

[Chestburster2]

CMOD3 changed it to yellow, i wanted it back to red

[EmperorJon]

Ah, ok...


Can anyone help me out on this one...

It's triggered by moving to a new sector... well, ok it isn't. Something else is triggered which then runs this, but anyway.

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001   while $Num
002   |dec $Num = 
003 @ |= wait 5 ms
004   |display subtitle text: text= *This text has been removed to prevent spoilers* duration=2000 ms
005 @ |= [THIS] -> call script *This text has been removed to prevent spoilers*: 
006   |write to log file #19283  append=[TRUE]  value='It reached this part.'
007   end
008   return null

Causes blackness like it was still loading the sector, and station noises and announcements. Seems to be an infinite loop of some kind... but where!? It never reaches the show logfile output, whereas the others are reached, so this is the problem. If this is impossible for some reason, other ways?


EDIT: It would appear it's making it into the next script, which does have... a large loop in it. Very large.

[mark_a_condren]

EJon,

How long after the change sector is complete is the script called, cos you will need to wait to the change sector is comlete i think.

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005 @ |= [THIS] -> call script *This text has been removed to prevent spoilers*: 

Is there something in this script that could be causing the loop? Without seeing the code for it we can't tell if it's in there.

How big is $Num ?

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003 @ |= wait 5 ms 
004   |display subtitle text: text= *This text has been removed to prevent spoilers* duration=2000 ms

The way this will loop will only show the last subtitle as any previous ones will be overwritten due to the 5 ms wait if $Num is greater than 1.

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