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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Reprobator on August 29, 2011, 04:03:51 am

Title: Shared radar information?
Post by: Reprobator on August 29, 2011, 04:03:51 am

Well since we can now (note that i don't know when it comes up , so it may not be a recent addition ^^ ) set the max radar range via sexp, i wonder if there was already a way to share radar information between friendly ship?

A sort of p2p radar system, each ship (fighter AWACS etc... ) have a set radar radius capability, but on each allied radar in the mission you would be able to see what other ship are able to detect within their radius?

Here is a marvellous  :nervous: illustration :
(http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/ad7fee49-65dc-4fc5-9d40-84b517f83a66.jpg) (http://tof.canardpc.com/view/ad7fee49-65dc-4fc5-9d40-84b517f83a66.jpg)

Title: Re: Shared radar information?
Post by: Qent on August 29, 2011, 07:11:30 am

AWACS do that last I checked -- in a nebula at least, I never tested it with the SEXP. So maybe if you gave AWACS to all ships in the mission...?

Title: Re: Shared radar information?
Post by: Reprobator on August 29, 2011, 08:59:46 am

i'll give a try.
But as the default radar maybe has infinite range i quite doubt that aside from nebula it would works like that.
But i'll try.

Title: Re: Shared radar information?
Post by: Aardwolf on August 29, 2011, 01:04:27 pm

Sort of like visibility in an RTS?

Yeah, if you gave everything AWACS that could work... but I'm not sure if that works in non-nebula missions.

Title: Re: Shared radar information?
Post by: Reprobator on August 29, 2011, 01:25:10 pm

And well awacs is an object type , can't be modified via fred, it may make some problem to set anyship as awacs in the objecttype table ^^
Aardwolf : sort of yup, like you have for exemple in supcom.

Title: Re: Shared radar information?
Post by: Qent on August 29, 2011, 04:59:48 pm

I think you can in FRED with set-awacs-radius.