[ryuune75]

I have a reqeusts for the coders, is anyone willing to implement a ship trasformation add-on? This has been attemped time ago by the Robotech mod guys, with pretty good results, but the experiment was dropped long ago...

How hard will it be to implement? I hope not too much, as it will not be to different from ship-change-class. Is anyone willing to try it out?

I REALLY need this for my mod, and i think others will find this useful...

[Carl]

just to be clear, you want to make it so a ship will turn into a different ship?

[Turnsky]

well, think of the Apoc project for beast ships.. change textures to that of the infected ones..

[KARMA]

afaik both a substitute model sexp and a rotate subobj by command sexp are implemented
but since I'm not a fredder I'm not sure

[ryuune75]

Originally posted by Carl
just to be clear, you want to make it so a ship will turn into a different ship?

Yes, you know, something very similar to the change-ship-class sexp, i'm not asking about animations of course, just a change the ship to another in the ship table, model and all, but unlike the exising change-ship-class i need:

- the ability off indicating in the tbl the new class the ship will trasform into
- keeping not only the health status, but also the ammuniton from one state to other (right now changing class refills all weapons to max)
- the possibility of binding it to a a keyboard key for the player

I have a very old buid that makes almost all the above things, but i want them implemented in the "official" builds (that old one didn't have any of the new features)

[ryuune75]

Originally posted by KARMA
afaik both a substitute model sexp and a rotate subobj by command sexp are implemented
but since I'm not a fredder I'm not sure

This won't do, the change-ship-model only change the pof, not the stats of the ship (i.e. max speed, rotation time, etc...)
Also i need to bind it to a key, the is-key-pressed works only once per mission

[kasperl]

there is also change ship class or something like that, IIRC.

not very sure though.

[Nico]

The final thing we had worked that way:
when you pushed the transform button, it would switch the player's ship back and forth between the ships tbl entry and the next entry in the ships.tbl.
So everything ( pof data, tbl entry ) was changed.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by ryuune75

...the is-key-pressed works only once per mission

Really? Derelict had a mission in which, you had to place navbouys by pressing 1, 2, 3. So I suppose you ran into a habitant SCP coincidental bugs.

[Goober5000]

Read the manual.  key-pressed will work more than once, but you have to reset it each time.

[ryuune75]

Originally posted by TopAce
Really? Derelict had a mission in which, you had to place navbouys by pressing 1, 2, 3. So I suppose you ran into a habitant SCP coincidental bugs.

Really? I tryed using is-key-pressed, but they activate only once, then it's not recognized anymore and won't start the event... it's not the usual behavior of this sexp? I mean, pressing the SAME key more than once, you are talkin about different keys.

Edit: just read Goober5000 post, didn't know about this reset thing, hey, i'm not an expert fredder, i don't know all the tricks involved...

Anyway, this don't really solve my problem, the change-ship-class is not exactly what i need, only similar....

[TopAce]

You can set a number in the Events editor, which says how many times you want your event be played.
You will find it.
But to be honest, I didn't use this SEXP much.

[Carl]

this feature would be good for cloaking, me thinks.

[kasperl]

uhm, no, bob had different idea's for that......

[Grug]

Yeh and as Turnsky said TAP could use this feature too. Though TAP is also about to get a setting change... but this could still be usefull.
For TAP though, it would mainly use the ship texture change and a change team sexp for the beast, if we wanted to include 'mimics' then this could be the way to go.

-Grug

[Unknown Target]

Try taking the code from the RT mod exe and put it into the main one

[ryuune75]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Try taking the code from the RT mod exe and put it into the main one

Yes, i already tought about this, but i'm not an expert programmer, i don't know if i can do it right... beside, who i need to ask to if i want to add myself features to the main source code?

[ryuune75]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Read the manual.  key-pressed will work more than once, but you have to reset it each time.

BTW, i tryed that, and i can't make it work....

[Nico]

it worked as many times as you wanted in the robotech mod.

[ryuune75]

Originally posted by Nico
it worked as many times as you wanted in the robotech mod.

what are you talking about? the RT mod never used the change-ship-model sexp, only a destroyabe turret on verithes...