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Modding => Help => Topic started by: NastyKhan on July 11, 2021, 04:37:24 am

Title: Single stage terror mission
Post by: NastyKhan on July 11, 2021, 04:37:24 am

Hi,

How to separate two-stage terror missions into two variants of single-stage terror mission?

This doesn't work:

Quote

alienDeployments:
  - type: STR_CARGO_SHIP_P1
    data:
    nextStage: []
  - type: STR_CRUISE_SHIP_P1
    data:
    nextStage: []

I means nextStage: [] doesn't work. Still spawns second stage.

Best regards

Title: Re: Single stage terror mission
Post by: Ethereal on July 11, 2021, 10:29:46 am

Quote from: NastyKhan on July 11, 2021, 04:37:24 am

How to separate two-stage terror missions into two variants of single-stage terror mission?

In alienDeployments.rul

Code: [Select]

  - type: STR_CARGO_SHIP_P1
    data:
...
    script: SHIP_P1
    terrains:
      - CARGO
    briefing:
      title: STR_SHIP_RESCUE_MISSION
      desc: STR_SHIP_RESCUE_P1_BRIEFING
      palette: 4
      music: GMISPOSH
    alert: STR_ALIENS_ATTACK_SHIPPING_ROUTE
    alertBackground: BACK03.SCR
    markerName: STR_TERROR_SITE
    duration: [4, 10]
    despawnPenalty: 1000

  - type: STR_CARGO_SHIP_P2
    data:
...
    script: SHIP_P2
    terrains:
      - CARGO
    shade: 0
    briefing:
      title: STR_SHIP_RESCUE_MISSION
      desc: STR_SHIP_RESCUE_P2_BRIEFING
      palette: 4
      music: GMISPOSH
      background: BACK01.SCR
    markerName: STR_TERROR_SITE
    duration: [4, 10]
    despawnPenalty: 1000
In globe.rul

Code: [Select]

    - id: -4
      deployments:
        STR_CARGO_SHIP_P1: 25
        STR_CARGO_SHIP_P2: 25
        STR_CRUISE_SHIP_P1: 25
        STR_CRUISE_SHIP_P2: 25

Title: Re: Single stage terror mission
Post by: NastyKhan on July 11, 2021, 02:49:13 pm

Hey,

Thanks for reply. I check the code you sent in 'alienDeployment' part and it seems that indeed, the only part that was changed was removal of "nextStage" element, as I originally believed.

In that case why:

Quote

alienDeployments:
  - type: STR_CARGO_SHIP_P1
    nextStage: []

doesn't work? Am I missing something?
How do you clear or remove an element? By overwriting it with [] ? or by {}? or by "false"? or by "delete:" command?

Thanks,
Best regards

Title: Re: Single stage terror mission
Post by: Ethereal on July 11, 2021, 08:03:06 pm

It is necessary to remove "nextStage".

Title: Re: Single stage terror mission
Post by: ohartenstein23 on July 12, 2021, 02:35:19 am

There are two ways you could approach it - in your own mod delete the deployment then copy the standard TFTD deployment without the nextStage part:

Code: [Select]

alienDeployments:
  - delete: STR_CARGO_SHIP_P1

  - type: STR_CARGO_SHIP_P1
    # copy everything from standard/xcom2 ruleset
    # but either leave out or comment out nextStage

Or you can use the empty nextStage like this:

Code: [Select]

alienDeployments:
  - type: STR_CARGO_SHIP_P1
    nextStage: "" # when something in the ruleset asks for a single string ID, empty quotation marks is the proper syntax for not defined


Title: Re: Single stage terror mission
Post by: NastyKhan on July 15, 2021, 08:19:00 pm

Thanks :)