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Title: Help create a mission from the base
Post by: Kronos913 on October 04, 2024, 02:05:03 pm: Please help create a mission that will start every month from each alien base. That is, how many bases - so many mission starts. As usual, a mission of several UFOs - from scouts to target UFOs

For example, STR_ALIEN_HARVEST. Then, I will try to create the rest myself by analogy
Title: Re: Help create a mission from the base
Post by: Kozinsky on October 04, 2024, 02:19:48 pm: Not exactly one mission per month per base, but very close to it:

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alienDeployments: - type: STR_ALIEN_BASE_ASSAULT ... genMission: STR_ALIEN_HARVEST: 100 genMissionFreq: 3
Title: Re: Help create a mission from the base
Post by: Kronos913 on October 05, 2024, 01:43:35 am: If it's not too much trouble, please help me make the full code.

As far as I understand, I need to write something in other sections, not just in alienDeployments?

And what should be in place...?
Title: Re: Help create a mission from the base
Post by: Kozinsky on October 05, 2024, 10:50:40 am: Examples of the alien missions themselves can be seen in the original game's rule set “...\OpenXCom\standard\xcom1\alienMissions.rul”, including STR_ALIEN_HARVEST.
And the alienDeployments.rul file contains the full code of alien base behavior, you just need to edit it as you need it.
For example, for your task in your submod you should write something like this:

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alienDeployments: - update: STR_ALIEN_BASE_ASSAULT genMission: STR_ALIEN_SUPPLY: 50 STR_ALIEN_HARVEST: 50 genMissionFreq: 6
Title: Re: Help create a mission from the base
Post by: Kronos913 on October 09, 2024, 02:50:22 pm: I tried to do something similar. It seems like the number of missions has increased. BUT. They still start from space. And I would like to make it so that the UFO starts from the alien base and returns there.
Title: Re: Help create a mission from the base
Post by: CrazedHarpooner on October 09, 2024, 05:05:35 pm: By default, all missions start from space, even base generated ones. If you want it to start from a base you'll need to specify an operationType in the alienMission itself. You probably should check out this particular thread about the topic here (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,6557.msg104669.html#msg104669). Note that if in the example code provided by Kozinsky you also update the mission for STR_ALIEN_HARVEST to use, let's say:
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alienMissions: - update: STR_ALIEN_HARVEST operationType: 1It will work, but now, ALL of these instances of the mission will be earth-based ONLY and in this particular example case, require at least 1 alien base present in the region to function or it will be aborted. If your idea is to have bases generate already defined missions but not alter the vanilla "from space" behaviour, you'll have to duplicate those missions to a different name (STR_ALIEN_HARVEST_FROM_BASE for example) and give them an operationType. Also, depending on the type you specify, you might have to set other properties too, all of that is explained in the thread linked earlier.
Title: Re: Help create a mission from the base
Post by: Kronos913 on November 15, 2024, 01:55:58 pm: Is there any example of working code for any mission from the base?
I'll figure out how to further remake it into what I need. It's easier to experiment with working code than to try to put everything together from scratch

In another topic, I also asked for a small example, from which I then developed a full-fledged task.
Title: Re: Help create a mission from the base
Post by: Kozinsky on November 15, 2024, 03:29:22 pm: Example from the mod "The X-Com Files".

This describes the conditions for establishing a new alien base, in this exampe it is called STR_CULT_MANOR_BLACK_LOTUS_ASSAULT:
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missionScripts: - type: CultManorBlackLotus firstMonth: 10 lastMonth: 14 executionOdds: 2 missionWeights: 0: STR_CULT_MANOR_BLACK_LOTUS_ASSAULT: 100 regionWeights: 0: STR_SOUTH_EAST_ASIA: 100 STR_AUSTRALASIA: 20 STR_PACIFIC: 10 STR_INDIAN_OCEAN: 2 useTable: false researchTriggers: STR_DESTROY_BLACK_LOTUS: false startDelay: 30 randomDelay: 43500
Now let's describe the parameters of this alien base and what missions it will generate during its existence. In this example these are the STR_CULT_INFILTRATION_BLACK_LOTUS and STR_CULT_STREET_FIGHTING_BLACK_LOTUS missions (I do not include the “data:” section in the example because it contains a lot of lines - you should fill it in according to your scenario):
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alienDeployments: - type: STR_CULT_MANOR_BLACK_LOTUS_ASSAULT width: 60 length: 60 height: 10 alert: STR_ALERT_CULT_MANOR_ASSAULT alertBackground: CULT_BACKGROUND.SCR alertDescription: STR_CULT_MANOR_BLACK_LOTUS_ASSAULT_DESCRIPTION briefing: background: NINJA_BACKGROUND.SCR palette: 1 music: GMENBASE music: - SW_MONSTER markerName: STR_CULT_MANOR_ASSAULT markerIcon: 29 points: 3 abortPenalty: 100 baseDetectionRange: 300 baseDetectionChance: 80 huntMissionMaxFrequency: 10000 # in minutes huntMissionWeights: 0: STR_CULT_MANOR_CAR_INTERCEPTION: 100 genMission: STR_CULT_INFILTRATION_BLACK_LOTUS: 30 STR_CULT_STREET_FIGHTING_BLACK_LOTUS: 15 genMissionFreq: 5 alienBaseUpgrades: 0: STR_CULT_MANOR_BLACK_LOTUS_ASSAULT: 100 5: STR_CULT_MANOR_BLACK_LOTUS_ASSAULT: 70 STR_CULT_GREATER_MANOR_BLACK_LOTUS_ASSAULT: 30 10: STR_CULT_GREATER_MANOR_BLACK_LOTUS_ASSAULT: 100 terrains: - COMRCURBAN script: MANOR data: ...
Finally, let's describe the parameters of one of those missions that the alien base generates during its existence:
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alienMissions: - type: STR_CULT_INFILTRATION_BLACK_LOTUS operationType: 1 objective: 3 spawnZone: 3 siteType: STR_CULT_INFILTRATION_BLACK_LOTUS_SITE raceWeights: 0: STR_BLACK_LOTUS: 100 waves: - ufo: STR_MEDIUM_GROUND_CONVOY count: 1 trajectory: P_CHWC1_Z3 timer: 9000 objective: true objectiveOnTheLandingSite: true