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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Kazan on December 07, 2004, 01:47:36 pm

Title: FRED Request: "Guardian" flag in ships editor
Post by: Kazan on December 07, 2004, 01:47:36 pm

WCS needs the "guardian" flag to be able to e set via the ship properties editor in fred - so they can save a lot of SEXPs

Title: FRED Request: "Guardian" flag in ships editor
Post by: karajorma on December 07, 2004, 04:52:14 pm

I did always wonder why invulnerable was up there but guardian isn't.

Title: FRED Request: "Guardian" flag in ships editor
Post by: Liberator on December 07, 2004, 05:15:06 pm

what does it do?

Title: FRED Request: "Guardian" flag in ships editor
Post by: Kazan on December 07, 2004, 05:20:35 pm

you can damage the ship to 1 percent but not kill it - until i patched it event a debug kill couldn't kill guardian ships

Title: FRED Request: "Guardian" flag in ships editor
Post by: Starman01 on December 08, 2004, 02:12:22 pm

Yeah, add it, that would be a great help for us,  and maybe a "send death-message" later on . (Just kidding :D ).

But serious guys, thanks for your efforts.

Title: FRED Request: "Guardian" flag in ships editor
Post by: Kazan on December 08, 2004, 02:42:56 pm

actually implementing a single sexp that does a send-message then unguardian, then self destruct may be even easier

Title: FRED Request: "Guardian" flag in ships editor
Post by: Starman01 on December 08, 2004, 03:13:29 pm

Check the other topic (internal) pls. "Unguardian" is not necessary (because you can still self-destruct guardian ships), but as long as there seems to be problem with skipped event-operators, I will not risk embedding the "Self-destruct" into an message-event. It could create the possibility of an indestructable fighter, and the player would need to restart the mission (which I would call a major bug then), and this even happend before.

Don't take this too serious (I said, I was kidding ;) ), I can live without the "death-message" thing (since it would be hard to code). It works perfect the way I'm doing it now, my only problem with this is the SEXP-Limit, which will be a little less problematic with the guardian-flag and the (hopefully) bumped-up message.tbl.

I have to try, if I can do it alone with that, or if I would need another Limit-Raise for SEXP-Operators (from 3500 to 4000 max), but that's another story. :)