Hard Light Productions Forums

General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Ace on July 31, 2003, 07:30:46 pm

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: Ace on July 31, 2003, 07:30:46 pm

Alright, for some reason my tagged SEXPTs don't seem to be working the code as-is at the moment is:

+when
|_+is_tagged
....|_NTC Oakland
....+send message
....|_#Command
....|_High
....|_c1tagged

Now TAGing is one of the few SEXPTs I haven't played around with. I searched the forum and checked VWatch for a SEXPT reference but there doesn't seem to be one with any information on this SEXPT.

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: Sesquipedalian on August 01, 2003, 01:59:19 am

1) It's SEXP, not SEXPT.  It stands for symbolic expression.

2) Is-tagged does not and cannot work in the commercial FS2 engine.  New code had to be written for it to function.  Therefore, if you want to use the is-tagged sexp, you will need to download and use fs2_open, available from the Source Code Project.

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: Krackers87 on August 01, 2003, 10:02:22 am

how did it work in the campaign?


im also preety sure it worked in derilict.

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: karajorma on August 01, 2003, 10:32:32 am

Quote

Originally posted by Krackers87
how did it work in the campaign?

im also preety sure it worked in derilict.

They didn't use is-tagged. There are other SEXPs that deal with Tagging. They were used instead.

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: TopAce on August 01, 2003, 04:38:56 pm

I have just experienced this problem, too. I realized that the is-tagged doesn't work, instead, the 'has-been-tagged-delay' has some use, but the is-tagged and has-been-tagged-delay is very different in the case I wanted to use them.

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: Nuclear1 on August 01, 2003, 07:48:30 pm

That's just what we need... another person who uses bold colored text in his posts...

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: Taristin on August 01, 2003, 08:48:43 pm

What do you mean?

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: phreak on August 01, 2003, 08:49:33 pm

well at least i can read that dark green as opposed to dark blue :rolleyes:

is_tagged (should be "is-tagged") looks like it has been fixed. i haven't had the chance to use it yet, but i figure you can just give it a repeat count of 9999999 with the delay dependant on what is going to happen e.g.: fire beams if tagged and the ship is out of range for normal AI firing to take over.

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: Taristin on August 01, 2003, 08:59:56 pm

Yeah, that blue is kinda annoying...

Oh, and cheers on the sexp. ;)

Title: Getting the is_tagged SEXPT to work.
Post by: Ace on August 01, 2003, 10:47:27 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
1) It's SEXP, not SEXPT.  It stands for symbolic expression.

2) Is-tagged does not and cannot work in the commercial FS2 engine.  New code had to be written for it to function.  Therefore, if you want to use the is-tagged sexp, you will need to download and use fs2_open, available from the Source Code Project.

1) It's been a long time since I've loaded up FRED :)

2) Sandwich reminded me of the has-been-tagged-delay which worked for what I wanted to do. Thanks Top Ace for mentioning this as well.