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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 17, 2008, 04:46:05 pm

Title: Ship guardian and self destruct
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 17, 2008, 04:46:05 pm

Just wondering if self-destruct should work if a ship-guardian-threshold is used?  Didn't notice a problem in my early mission testing but now the bases I have set to self-destruct aren't blowing up (at least client side) and I have the felling the guardian is the reason why. 

Title: Re: Ship guardian and self destruct
Post by: karajorma on July 18, 2008, 02:03:39 am

It really shouldn't. The only place the game actually does anything with the ship-guardian or ship-guardian-threshold data is in ship_do_damage(). Self destruct completely bypasses this and goes straight to ship_hit_kill().

I'll try to remember to take a look tonight though. Can you test if the problem occurs in SP too?

Title: Re: Ship guardian and self destruct
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 18, 2008, 01:24:52 pm

I think it was working on the host side.  Did the outposts self-destruct after the base in M04 yesterday?  I was originally testing the mission with the Vree ship invulnerable and remember those outposts going up.  I'll see if that works first.  If it doesn't then I'll try single.

Title: Re: Ship guardian and self destruct
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 21, 2008, 06:50:47 pm

Well the self destruct of a ship with ship-guardian-threshold works in multi as the host.  Possible client bug?

Title: Re: Ship guardian and self destruct
Post by: karajorma on July 22, 2008, 01:22:47 am

It's possible. Seems odd though, the game should pass information to the client that tells it to blow up. I'm pretty sure I saw the multi callback to do that.

I'll try to take a look at it tonight. But I've been busy of late so I can't promise anything.

Title: Re: Ship guardian and self destruct
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 22, 2008, 01:30:45 am

Well there is always the possibility I just didn't get that packet as a client.  Tried looking at the code but it's above my head.  Not much in there isn't.  It did look like it was doing things differently single/host as opposed to client. 

Probably should write a quick test mission.  Waiting 16 minutes for the results is a kind of a waste of time.