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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: headdie on July 22, 2009, 04:55:35 am

Title: Mine Field
Post by: headdie on July 22, 2009, 04:55:35 am: I was wondering if it would be possible for code to be set up to allow an event to be created along these lines.

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Make Asteroids Explode Everytime < Distance <Any Friendly> <Any Asteroid Field Object> 500 Self Destruct Nearest Objectthen with one asteroid.tbl modification to set damage range and amount you would have a ready made minefield

any thoughts?
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: Echelon9 on July 22, 2009, 05:21:05 am: Are you aware of the Minefields (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Minefields) FRED example in the wiki?
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: Alan Bolte on July 22, 2009, 12:01:58 pm: Eh, that example is all well and good if you want a small number of stationary individual mines, but if you want the mines to move like asteroids, or you want a minefield with quite a lot of mines, etc., then it doesn't seem like an ideal solution.
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 22, 2009, 12:54:23 pm: Yes this is easily done. I have something like this (but a bit more complicated) working just fine. All you need is something like this

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$Formula: ( when-argument ( any-of "Streib Auto Turret 1-1" "Streib Auto Turret 1-2" "Streib Auto Turret 1-3" "Streib Auto Turret 1-4" "Streib Auto Turret 1-5" "Streib Auto Turret 1-6" "Streib Auto Turret 2-1" "Streib Auto Turret 2-2" "Streib Auto Turret 2-3" "Streib Auto Turret 2-4" "Streib Auto Turret 2-5" "Streib Auto Turret 2-6" "Streib Auto Turret 3-1" "Streib Auto Turret 3-2" "Streib Auto Turret 3-3" "Streib Auto Turret 3-4" "Streib Auto Turret 3-5" "Streib Auto Turret 3-6" "Streib Auto Turret 4-1" "Streib Auto Turret 4-2" "Streib Auto Turret 4-3" "Streib Auto Turret 4-4" "Streib Auto Turret 4-5" "Streib Auto Turret 4-6" ) ( not ( < ( distance "<any friendly>" "<argument>" ) 1000 ) ) ( ship-invisible "<argument>" ) ( ship-stealthy "<argument>" ) ) +Name: Gun untargetable +Repeat Count: 999999999 +Interval: 1 +Team: 0
Just change the invisible part to self-destruct.

Oops gave you the wrong one. You will need to remove the not. That would destroy all mines not close to any friendly ships.
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: Aardwolf on July 22, 2009, 03:55:17 pm: Also easily doable with Lua scripting.
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: Trivial Psychic on July 24, 2009, 02:18:36 am: I'd much rather see a coded solution to minefields, as placing individual mines cuts into the ships-per-mission limit.
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 24, 2009, 01:37:36 pm: Well that wouldn't really be a problem with 400 ships if you could have waves and place them. For some reason SSGs seem to be the only things you can't have waves of.

Although I guess you could make them invulnerable, use explosion-effect and move them while the explosion occurs.
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: Aardwolf on July 24, 2009, 07:39:04 pm: Escape pods, too.

Anyway, I think minefields are slated as part of an 'Advanced Hazard System' (AHS) for one of the next numbered releases.
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: chief1983 on July 26, 2009, 02:01:09 pm: Don't count on that. I don't think anyone is working on AHS or has been for some time.
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: Tolwyn on July 26, 2009, 04:33:37 pm: Me thinks Kazan wanted to work on it and since he's no longer active...
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: chief1983 on July 26, 2009, 06:33:14 pm: Probably, and since half the coders in that roadmap are no longer active or working on the same projects as they were back then, it really doesn't serve much of a purpose anymore.
Title: Re: Mine Field
Post by: Nuke on July 27, 2009, 10:18:11 am: you could probibly just script asteroids to do the job, then use asteroids with a model that looks more like a mine.