[Bobboau]

is there a sExp that can tell if ship A is looking at ship B, the only one I could find was for the player, and I had an idea for a multi-player mission were I would need to be able to do it for any ship.

if I wanted to, for example, make an object and if any ship got within 100 meters of it they would explode, how would I be able to sExp that (note: exploding is not actually what I want to do)

if the answers to these questions do not please me I will probly make them the right answer by force of my coding might.

yeah, I don't do a lot of freding.

[karajorma]

It's a bit too early in the morning for me to rule out the first one but the second one is easy

when-argument
-any-of
--List of Ship Names
-<
--Distance
---<argument>
---Dangerous Object
-self-destruct
--<argument>

That will do it for the first object. If you want to do it more than once either add a repeat count and a delay or switch to every-time-argument

[Bobboau]

oh, that's what that does!

allright, that was the part I was most scared of, makeing an is_faceing sExp will be easy if one does not exist. but I want to make sure one does not exist before I make a new one.

[Bobboau]

hey, were did that old, checklist for adding sExps go?
I want to make sure I didn't forget anything.

[karajorma]

This one?

[Bobboau]

yes that one

alright, a little while ago someone mentioned jump gates, I got it to work in a mission, sort of, as evedenced by this thread I needed to make a new sExp (I can not beleive we didn't have that already), but it works more or less. only real problem is, if you are moveing too fast when you enter the jump gate, you'll probly not get teleported.

I should probly commit my code soon.

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/hyperball.zip

(required buld included, code should expand and be relitivly easy to port to multi gate setups)
whatcha think?

I'm thinking this sort of thing would be realy fun in a CTF style team vs team mod.

[karajorma]

Looks good bob. I haven't actually tried it but I can get the gist of what's going on just from reading the mission file.

I'm sure the Tachyon mod team will be especially interested in this.

[Bobboau]

yeah, those were the guys that made me want to try this.

[BS403]

This is awesome. Bob you rock 

[Black Wolf]

Indeed, I've been ater an is-facing sexp for years. Does it work for objects as well as ships (most specifically, waypoints?

[RazorsKiss]

I'm sure the Tachyon mod team will be especially interested in this.

Very

I gotta take a look at that, myself.