[Documentation] Mixing and Matching Terrain with MapScripts!

[Solarius Scorch]

Congrats Oheartenstein! I know how much trouble it was, so kudos for doing it. I will certainly make good use of this feature.

[davide]

As for 'baseTerrain' I have wished for something different but with a similar objective: being able to determine Base Defense terrain depending on the globe texture, as the current nightlies allow for alien bases.

In short, there would be the vanilla Base Defense + modded terrains that could be used for base defense, depending on the base's location on the globe. Since each texture would have alienDeployments assigned to it, you could have the vanilla underground base, or a version of it with a ground level, or even a base fully on the surface.

An other complementary idea could be that when the base defense counter attack level  is more (a comparison level as to establish) than alien ship attack force, it could be generate an other base defence terrain on the surface with maps such as XBase+ without underground levels, but with some bunker for spawn xcom unit, mixed with a terrain depending on the globe texture. A landing/crashed  specific attacking alien ship could be an other option.

[mrcalzon02]

This whole thread looks to be tackling the exact problem i just ran smack into...maps seam to be limited to 2 tilesets? not sure how the rules play out but tiles from the third tileset ina map dont seam to survive translation to the battlespace.

[Solarius Scorch]

You can have as many tilesets as you want, provided that the total number of tiles does not exceed 256.

You can somewhat circumvent this problem by putting destroyed tiles (not used for map construction) to the end of the last tileset.

[hellrazor]

Hi Everyone!

1/ I've been working on another coding project for the OXCE+ version of the engine, and just got a new feature working: using map scripts to add map blocks from other terrains.  This allows you to do things like adding some forest to a simple farmland ufo mission, like in the screenshot I've attached.  The original intent was to start adding support for having an above-ground portion to base defense maps, but it turned into making more general tools for this purpose.  Map scripts can be given an optional command terrain:, which allows you to pull in a map block from any defined terrain. This works for addBlock, addLine, addCraft, addUFO, and fillArea.

For the example of the farm/forest hybrid map, the script looks like this:

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mapScripts:
  - type: FARM
    commands:
    - type: addUFO
    - type: addCraft
    - type: addBlock
      terrain: FOREST
      size: 2
      executions: 2
    - type: fillArea
      blocks: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]
      maxUses: [3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3]


Does this also work for the checkBlock command? Because this would allow some really funny things to happen.
Having it work with removeBlock I guess is not possible but if could get checkBlock i could work around that.
There is a certain Railstation, which needs spawning in some terrains

[CrazedHarpooner]

In my experience, no. I designed a macro-sized multi-terrain script, it tried to check terrains of placed blocks but was giving me false positives, as in, command label was marked positive for finding a desert terrain block when I know for a fact I didn't place any prior to that check. It does match other keys, just not the terrain one.