[OLD] Old OXCE discussion thread

[Solarius Scorch]

Around February, Warboy introduced a feature called siteType that can be used in alienMissions. Can somebody please confirm if it's already in OXCE or not?

[Meridian]

Around February, Warboy introduced a feature called siteType that can be used in alienMissions. Can somebody please confirm if it's already in OXCE or not?

It's not.
Anything from Dec 2015 onwards is not in.

[R1dO]

For me there is only one problem - font.dat

Not surprisingly. OXC nightly changed font handling somewhere around the end of march, which is way later than the point of last merger as indicated by Meridian.

[g5-freemen]

OpenXcom Extended also not compatible with Soldier Diaries 1.0 mod as i understand?

[Meridian]

OpenXcom Extended also not compatible with Soldier Diaries 1.0 mod as i understand?

1. Soldier Diaries is not a mod anymore, it's part of OpenXcom.
2. Extended doesn't have Soldier Diaries yet  (it has only features implemented until November 2015)

[Meridian]

@Yankes:

Would you mind looking at this bug: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4637.0.html when/if you have some time... I don't understand the dogfight code well enough to find what's causing it. It's nicely reproducible.

Also, if you'll be going through dogfight code, maybe have a look at this too: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4058.msg64352.html#msg64352
This one is unfortunately not reproducible... but many people (including me) experience it relatively often. Maybe you'll see what could be wrong...

[Yankes]

I will check it out.

[Dioxine]

Q. how do I make the psi-amp special attack deal damage? I managed to get it to work, but it doesn't do any visible damage... do I need to define this by damage bonus and damage alter? I have this so far, but it doesn't work...

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    psiAttackName: STR_PSI_CUSTOM_ATTACK
    accuracyUse: 7
    damageBonus:
      psi: 0.02
    damageAlter:
      ToHealth: 1.0

[Yankes]

Its need be defined like as in normal weapons e.g. you need add power, damage type, hit animation. Aside of that you need add name of attack that enable it in action menu.

[Dioxine]

Ah so it does need a damage type! Ok got it now. But it still does work through walls, right?
Iif this works I will redo some of the magic wands etc., psi-amp attack (LoS-only if needed) will be so much better that using bullets! Sweeet. Damn there still are depths of OXCE I didn't discover

[Yankes]

Ah so it does need a damage type! Ok got it now. But it still does work through walls, right?

yup

[Meridian]

Hi Yankes,

I see you've cherry-picked a few of OXCE+ commits into OXCE.

Although, that is the ultimate goal, please don't take anything GUI-related at the moment... I want to refactor GUI-code after OXCE 3.0 (there are missing translations, missing tftd support and a lot of hardcoded colors and constants). Also I want to remove some stuff, which is now either obsolete or turned out not to be useful.

On a similar note... have you started with merging OXC master? Don't want to rush you or anything, just want some indication so that I can plan also my activities a bit better...

Meridian

[Yankes]

I plan do not touch GUI at all I only interested in stealing game mechanic.

And for master, right now I thinking on merging up to 25edd7b.
I already did most of hard work and only left some basic testing and I will probably releasing new version.
Rest of commits I did not merge yet will wait for end of next month.

[Solarius Scorch]

I plan do not touch GUI at all I only interested in stealing game mechanic.

And for master, right now I thinking on merging up to 25edd7b.
I already did most of hard work and only left some basic testing and I will probably releasing new version.
Rest of commits I did not merge yet will wait for end of next month.

That's great news! There's a number of features that would be really useful for Piratez or X-Com Files:
- Soldier Diaries
- spawning UFO by mission
- destroyItem command
- defining waypoints (if possible, by soldier stats too)

[Meridian]

And for master, right now I thinking on merging up to 25edd7b.
I already did most of hard work and only left some basic testing and I will probably releasing new version.
Rest of commits I did not merge yet will wait for end of next month.

25edd7b is 2nd of January, right?
I'll wait a bit more then, still 6 more months to merge :/

EDIT: also to your attention: https://github.com/stiansel/OpenXcom/commit/b8a94c8c581d6a804c9307b18168cb3f476ed739