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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Asker on November 15, 2008, 12:19:50 pm

Title: Differences between invisble and stealth
Post by: Asker on November 15, 2008, 12:19:50 pm
What exactly is the difference between ship-stealthy and ship-invisble in the sexps?
Title: Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Post by: General Battuta on November 15, 2008, 12:26:38 pm
I would guess that one makes the ship stealth: i.e. invisible to sensors but still visible to the naked eye, while the other makes it invisible, undetectable by sensors or the naked eye.

To put it differently, 'invisible' prevents the ship model from rendering. Or somesuch.
Title: Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on November 15, 2008, 12:31:01 pm
Invisible/Visible make the ship show or not show on sensors

Stealthy/Unstealthy make the ship not show on RADAR. 

Title: Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Post by: karajorma on November 15, 2008, 12:41:26 pm
An easy way to think of it is that invisible affects whether you can see them while stealth affects whether anyone can see them.

AI ships are not affected by invisibility. They are affected by stealth.
Title: Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on November 15, 2008, 01:35:44 pm
Quote from: karajorma on November 15, 2008, 12:41:26 pm
AI ships are not affected by invisibility. They are affected by stealth.

Actually they aren't.  Hence Mantis 1127. 
Title: Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Post by: General Battuta on November 15, 2008, 02:43:14 pm
Oh. I guess I was wrong!
Title: Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Post by: Asker on November 15, 2008, 03:09:27 pm
Just to get it all... hidden from sensors... is that the visible or the stealth effect? and what about the stealth-flag?
Title: Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Post by: Droid803 on November 15, 2008, 03:55:24 pm
Invisible = Can't be targeted, shows up on radar as a fuzzy, moving thing.
Stealth = Can't be targeted, not on radar at all.