[Solved] [REQUEST] X-Com Files: define UFO to be spawned through mapScripts

[Solarius Scorch]

I wasn't sure if this should go in Yankes' OXCE thread, or maybe Meriian's improvement thread, so finally I decided to put it here. I hope it will be read by our extremely talented coders.

So, I'm making a mod. I've been rather vocal about this, especially considering how little I've done yet, but I'm totally excited about it and I promise it'll be a completely new experience if I manage to finish a releasable version. Which will probably happen in a few months.

Anyway, there's a feature I badly need, and I feel that it'll be useful to most mods which modify missions, too. So, one of your basic initial actions is a cult investigation mission, where you "investigate" a safehouse used by alien-worshipping cultists (which means go in guns blazing) and "arrest" the perpetrators (which means hoping one of them will not die from your 9mm pistols).
This mission is an alert type (like alien terror). It generates fine, but the problem is that there's no actual house - it just happens on the given terrain with no additional objects. Which kind of ruins the mood.

What do I need to fix it? A simple improvement to the mapScripts command "addUFO", which would allow me to define a specific UFO, like STR_HARVESTER or STR_SMALL_SCOUT, and in this case STR_CULTHOUSE (which wouldn't appear anywhere else).

I think that would be pretty simple to do, though of course I'm not sure. Please let me know if it's possible.

[Hobbes]

What do I need to fix it? A simple improvement to the mapScripts command "addUFO", which would allow me to define a specific UFO, like STR_HARVESTER or STR_SMALL_SCOUT, and in this case STR_CULTHOUSE (which wouldn't appear anywhere else).

Already implemented:

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  - type: COMPLEXRESEARCH
    commands:
    - type: addUFO
      UFOName: STR_NKF_APC_COMPLEX
Give a thank you to Warboy1982 for it

[Solarius Scorch]

Already implemented:

Code: [Select]

  - type: COMPLEXRESEARCH
    commands:
    - type: addUFO
      UFOName: STR_NKF_APC_COMPLEX
Give a thank you to Warboy1982 for it

OK, I need to go test it... Thanks, and if it works, thread locked.


EDIT:
I tried adding

Code: [Select]

    - type: addUFO
      UFOName: STR_CULTHOUSE

to various Terror mapscripts (the only maps I have that don't have landed UFO on them), but it does nothing. The map generates as normal, but the house is nowhere to be seen.

What am I doing wrong?

[Hobbes]

EDIT:
I tried adding

Code: [Select]

    - type: addUFO
      UFOName: STR_CULTHOUSE

to various Terror mapscripts (the only maps I have that don't have landed UFO on them), but it does nothing. The map generates as normal, but the house is nowhere to be seen.

What am I doing wrong?

I suppose you defined STR_CULTHOUSE as an entry on ufos? If so, then the issue most likely is with the mapScript (it can't place the ufo for some reason)

[Solarius Scorch]

Yeah, I still don't know what's wrong.

Here's the ufo:

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  - type: STR_CULTHOUSE
    size: STR_SMALL
    modSprite: interception_jammed
    damageMax: 500
    speedMax: 5000
    accel: 10
    power: 40
    range: 20
    score: 700
    reload: 32
    breakOffTime: 500
    battlescapeTerrainData:
      name: STR_CULTHOUSE
      mapDataSets:
        - BLANKS
        - PORTROADS
        - PORTURBITS
        - ROADS
        - URBITS
        - FRNITURE
      mapBlocks:
        - name: CULTHOUSE01
          width: 10
          length: 10
Here's the mapscript:

Code: [Select]

  - type: RAILYARDURBAN
    commands:
    - type: addCraft
    - type: addLine
      label: 1
      direction: vertical
      executionChances: 50
    - type: addUFO
      UFOName: STR_CULTHOUSE
    - type: addLine
      label: 2
      conditionals: -1
      executionChances: 50
      direction: horizontal
    - type: addLine
      conditionals: [-1, -2]
      direction: both
    - type: addBlock
      size: 2
      executions: 4
    - type: fillArea
      blocks: [0, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26]
      freqs: [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]


[Dioxine]

It is possible that OXCE doesn't support that function yet - it was added by Warboy quite recently.

[Solarius Scorch]

It is possible that OXCE doesn't support that function yet - it was added by Warboy quite recently.

Yeah, that'd explain stuff. Well, good things come to the patient ones...

[Hobbes]

Yeah, otherwise the code looks fine to me.

[Solarius Scorch]

Thanks. Then I'll carry on with stuff.

[davide]

I hope that is not a "tip of the iceberg"
about source code branches divergence

[Dioxine]

There's no secret to it, there is no divergence but a time lag. OXCE is based on a September OXC build AFAIK, and anything that came later isn't available in OXCE yet.

[Yankes]

There's no secret to it, there is no divergence but a time lag. OXCE is based on a September OXC build AFAIK, and anything that came later isn't available in OXCE yet.

Exactly, I simply focus on my own work instead of tracking nightly. In around month I should probably catch up to recent nightly.

[Solarius Scorch]

Exactly, I simply focus on my own work instead of tracking nightly. In around month I should probably catch up to recent nightly.

If you happen to work in sequence, I'd appreciate if this part is released earlier. I want to test this feature, pretty please.

[Yankes]

If it merge clearly, then yes.

[ps]

it seem to merge without any big problems, one bug left to fix and I probably release it soon (tm Valve or Blizzard :>) .