Novax Station rebuilds Satellites

Israelidomination

I'm trying to modify the scripts of the Novax defence satellite and the station itself so that if the satellite dies or self destructs the sation itself will build a new one instead of self destructing. I tried using the forged alliance forever script for the rebuilding pods fix by modifying it slightly:

Code:

             NotifyOfSatelliteDeath = function(self, Satellite)
    end,

   RebuildSatellite = function(self, Satellite)
         local ecobp = self:GetBlueprint().Satellite
         self.RebuildingSatellite = CreateEconomyEvent(self, 1600, 160, 10, self.SetWorkProgress)
         self:RequestRefreshUI()
         WaitFor(self.RebuildingSatellite)
         self:SetWorkProgress(0.0)
                        self.AnimManip = CreateAnimator(self)
                        self.AnimManip:PlayAnim( '/units/XEB2402/XEB2402_aopen.sca' )
                        self.Trash:Add(self.AnimManip)
                        self:PlayUnitSound('MoveArms')
                        WaitFor( self.AnimManip )
            local location = self:GetPosition('Attachpoint01')
            local pod = CreateUnitHPR('UEA0002', self:GetArmy(), location[1], location[2], location[3], 0, 0, 0)
            pod:SetParent(self, 'Satellite')
            pod:SetCreator(self)
            self.Trash:Add(Satellite)
            self.satellite = Satellite
      else
   end,   

This didn't work, however. Also, if possible, I'd like to modify the UEF SCU to rebuild its pod as well.

DeadMG

Israelidomination wrote:

This didn't work, however. Also, if possible, I'd like to modify the UEF SCU to rebuild its pod as well.

Thanks so much for all the relevant information. I am now going to psychically divine both the problem and the solution from your mind.

Wait, that only works on people who are not ******* morons.

Domino · **Joined:** 26 Feb, 2009 **Posts:** 2996

Hi,

If bm doesnt tell you how to do it tonight, ill tell you how to make it build the satalite (not create) tomorrow as im to tired tonight. totally whacked out had a very busy day.

Israelidomination

Quote:

Wait, that only works on people who are not ******* morons.

Israelidomination wrote:

This didn't work, however. Also, if possible, I'd like to modify the UEF SCU to rebuild its pod as well.

Thanks so much for all the relevant information. I am now going to psychically divine both the problem and the solution from your mind.

Wait, that only works on people who are not ******* morons.

Then this should work out well then.

But srsly DeadMG, if you're gonna be a jerk, go back to watching your... you know, whatever you were watching before reading my post. Perhaps you don't actually have the knowledge of coding to do squat with the game. You made some good mods, though, so for now I'll just assume your account has been hijacked by an *sshole.

The satellite station simply behaves as it normally does, the script I added apparently does nothing.

DeadMG

You deserve it. Why are you wasting my time asking for help when you can't even be bothered to describe the problem you're having? It's offensive to people who actually take time out to try and help people- such as me.

Israelidomination

I'm asking for coding help here. It is obvious to anyone reading that I didn't waste your time, you keep coming back and responding. Derail some other thread please...

The code I used is above. I'll repeat that the code has no apparent affect in game. When I self destruct the Novax, the center will also explode instead of rebuilding another satellite. Should I not have used the command "self, satellite" and used some other script line that I don't know about? What am I doing wrong?

Look DeadMG, you are a great modder, but would you calm down long enough to read my posts? If you won't stop hyperventillating, vent by playing Supcom or something. Punch your neighbor's doberman, maybe get strung out on acid and bite off someone's face, run for congress, do something, anything but rage on my mod problem topic. Pretty please.

P.S. To anyone who is in the mood, plz help

liveordie · **Joined:** 02 Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 1261

Umm i thought the Sat only died if the station did

.

Domino · **Joined:** 26 Feb, 2009 **Posts:** 2996

Hi,

Its actually quite easy to achieve your goal, but it involves an override of the

OnKilled function in the satelites script. (xea0002) when the satelite dies, it does indeed also kill the parent (xeb2402) and vice versa.

to stop this and only have the satelite die and create a new satelite, id do something like this..

hook the satelite script you only need to add the OnKilled function, override it with this..

XEA0002

Code:

OnKilled = function(self, instigator, type, overkillRatio)
        if self.IsDying then 
            return 
        end
        
        local wep = self:GetWeaponByLabel('OrbitalDeathLaserWeapon')
        for k, v in wep.Beams do
            v.Beam:Disable()
        end      
        
        self.IsDying = true
        self.Parent:CreateNewSatelite() --> new function.
        
        TAirUnit.OnKilled(self, instigator, type, overkillRatio)        
    end,

ok now in the novax script hook it and add this,

XEB2402

Code:

CreateNewSatelite = function(self)
      self.Satellite = nil -- its dying so let it die.
      ChangeState( self, self.WaitForSatDeath ) --> change state to wait for the old sat to die.
   end, 

   WaitForSatDeath = State() {
      Main = function(self)
         WaitSeconds(3) --> wait for the old sat to die.
         ChangeState( self, self.OpenState ) --> create the new satelite.
      end
   }

and hapiness reigns supreme.

if the change state doesnt work, we can rethink it to use a Forkthread instead, howeve rim confidant this will work.. i personally havent tested it.

Cursix · **Joined:** 14 Apr, 2012 **Posts:** 9 **Location:** USA

liveordie wrote:

Umm i thought the Sat only died if the station did

.

In stock yes, but there are some mods that have sat defenses that shoot down sats. So there may be a reason to have the Novax rebuild the sat.

Israelidomination, did you put in a function to catch the death of the sat? For example, the pods for the ACU have this function in them (UEA0001):

Code:

    OnKilled = function(self, instigator, type, overkillRatio)
        self.Parent:NotifyOfPodDeath(self.Pod)
        self.Parent = nil
        TConstructionUnit.OnKilled(self, instigator, type, overkillRatio)
    end,

Which in turn activates this in the ACU's script:

Code:

    NotifyOfPodDeath = function(self, pod)
   
       if pod == 'LeftPod' then
          if self.HasLeftPod == false then #for fixing bug!
         return
      end
         self:ForkThread(self.RebuildPod,1)
        elseif pod == 'RightPod' then
      if self.HasRightPod == false then #for fixing bug!
         return
      end
         self:ForkThread(self.RebuildPod,2)
      end
    end,

From what you pasted, it looks like your NotifyOfSatelliteDeath does nothing and you didn't provide the script for the actual sat which should be calling that function inside its OnKilled function.

Or you could do what Domino suggested.

Israelidomination

My computer hard drive died so I haven't been able to work on this for a while.
I have a solution to the SCU rebuilding its pods when they are killed:

Code:

   RebuildPod = function(self, Pod)
         local ecobp = self:GetBlueprint().Pod
         self.RebuildingPod = CreateEconomyEvent(self, 1600, 160, 10, self.SetWorkProgress)
         self:RequestRefreshUI()
         WaitFor(self.RebuildingPod)
         self:SetWorkProgress(0.0)
            local location = self:GetPosition('AttachSpecial01')
            local pod = CreateUnitHPR('UEA0003', self:GetArmy(), location[1], location[2], location[3], 0, 0, 0)
            pod:SetParent(self, 'Pod')
            pod:SetCreator(self)
            self.Trash:Add(pod)
            self.HasPod = true
            self.Pod = pod      
      self:RequestRefreshUI()
   end,   
   
    NotifyOfPodDeath = function(self, pod)
          if self.HasPod == true then #for fixing bug!
         self:ForkThread(self.RebuildPod)
      else
         self:ForkThread(self.RebuildPod)
         --return
      end
   end,
   

On an unrelated note, I also have code that adds more build bots to the Cybran ACU and SCU depending on weather or not they have build rate upgrades. The ACU adds 5 build bots for each tech upgrade and the SCU adds 1 buildbot for the rapid-fabricator upgrade. As an example this is the ACU code:

Code:

    CreateBuildEffects = function( self, unitBeingBuilt, order )
        if Buff.HasBuff( self, 'CybranACUT3BuildRate' ) then
            EffectUtil.SpawnBuildBots( self, unitBeingBuilt, 15, self.BuildEffectsBag )
            EffectUtil.CreateCybranBuildBeams( self, unitBeingBuilt, self:GetBlueprint().General.BuildBones.BuildEffectBones, self.BuildEffectsBag )
        elseif Buff.HasBuff( self, 'CybranACUT2BuildRate' ) then
            EffectUtil.SpawnBuildBots( self, unitBeingBuilt, 10, self.BuildEffectsBag )
            EffectUtil.CreateCybranBuildBeams( self, unitBeingBuilt, self:GetBlueprint().General.BuildBones.BuildEffectBones, self.BuildEffectsBag )
        else
            EffectUtil.SpawnBuildBots( self, unitBeingBuilt, 5, self.BuildEffectsBag )
            EffectUtil.CreateCybranBuildBeams( self, unitBeingBuilt, self:GetBlueprint().General.BuildBones.BuildEffectBones, self.BuildEffectsBag )
        end
    end,

I'll look at the satellite station later...

P.S. Did you know that both the Cybran and Seraphim ACUs have personal shield meshes in their files?

Novax Station rebuilds Satellites

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