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Offline Asker

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Differences between invisble and stealth
What exactly is the difference between ship-stealthy and ship-invisble in the sexps?

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
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.

 

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Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Invisible/Visible make the ship show or not show on sensors

Stealthy/Unstealthy make the ship not show on RADAR. 

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Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
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.
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Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
AI ships are not affected by invisibility. They are affected by stealth.

Actually they aren't.  Hence Mantis 1127. 
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Oh. I guess I was wrong!

 

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Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Just to get it all... hidden from sensors... is that the visible or the stealth effect? and what about the stealth-flag?

  

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Re: Differences between invisble and stealth
Invisible = Can't be targeted, shows up on radar as a fuzzy, moving thing.
Stealth = Can't be targeted, not on radar at all.
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