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[Juissi]

How could I make ents invisible when they are standing near trees? Does anyone have the answer. I would wanna add this feature to my mod.

[Solinx]

How could I make ents invisible when they are standing near trees? Does anyone have the answer. I would wanna add this feature to my mod.

This concerns adding an invisiblilityUpdate module. Give me a min to check out the correct one.

Edit:

	Behavior = InvisibilityUpdate ModuleTag_ElvenCamouflage
		InvisibilityNugget
			InvisibilityType	= CAMOUFLAGE
			DetectionRange		= CAMOUFLAGE_RADIUS
			ForbiddenConditions	= AWAY_FROM_TREES MOVING FIRING_ANY
		End
		UpdatePeriod			= 2000
		StartsActive			= Yes
	End

Add this code to the ent objects in data\ini\Object\goodfaction\units\ents\entsinfantry.ini

And if you want Treebeard to have the feat to, add it to his object as well. (treeberd.ini, in the same folder)

Solinx

Edited by Solinx, 05 May 2006 - 08:58 PM.

[Artifice]

You could have looked in any units ini that has the stealth behavior.

[Solinx]

You could have looked in any units ini that has the stealth behavior.

Not in any. There are differences in the conditions. Some units/hero's have stealth abilities that work at other circumstances. Like the Wild Walk ability of thranduil for example.

Solinx

Edited by Solinx, 05 May 2006 - 09:14 PM.

[Juissi]

How could I make ents invisible when they are standing near trees? Does anyone have the answer. I would wanna add this feature to my mod.

This concerns adding an invisiblilityUpdate module. Give me a min to check out the correct one.

Edit:

	Behavior = InvisibilityUpdate ModuleTag_ElvenCamouflage
		InvisibilityNugget
			InvisibilityType	= CAMOUFLAGE
			DetectionRange		= CAMOUFLAGE_RADIUS
			ForbiddenConditions	= AWAY_FROM_TREES MOVING FIRING_ANY
		End
		UpdatePeriod			= 2000
		StartsActive			= Yes
	End

Add this code to the ent objects in data\ini\Object\goodfaction\units\ents\entsinfantry.ini

And if you want Treebeard to have the feat to, add it to his object as well. (treeberd.ini, in the same folder)

Solinx

Thanks now my mod will be little bit better thanks to you Solinx.

[CrazyMoose]

Have you ever thought of instead of turning them into trees, make them trees when you press a button, so basically you press a button and they will stay still until attacked or you give them a command and the enemy wont be able to distinguish between them and trees.

I was just thinking it would be funny if the enemy builds a lumber camp nearby and the orc labours try to chop it down and they all get trampled on.

Edited by CrazyMoose, 07 May 2006 - 07:18 PM.

[Solinx]

Have you ever thought of instead of turning them into trees, make them trees when you press a button, so basically you press a button and they will stay still until attacked or you give them a command and the enemy wont be able to distinguish between them and trees.

I was just thinking it would be funny if the enemy builds a lumber camp nearby and the orc labours try to chop it down and they all get trampled on.

Don't know about Juissi, but I certainly have, remembering such a feat from the mirage tanks (Red Alert 2)
Maybe I will give it a try.

Solinx

[Kelso]

Would be pretty easy to do via mount/dismount code. Nice idea.

[Juissi]

Have you ever thought of instead of turning them into trees, make them trees when you press a button, so basically you press a button and they will stay still until attacked or you give them a command and the enemy wont be able to distinguish between them and trees.

I was just thinking it would be funny if the enemy builds a lumber camp nearby and the orc labours try to chop it down and they all get trampled on.

Hmm I may give it a try some time but Im not sure can I do it but thanks for the idea.

[chocolate]

How could I make ents invisible when they are standing near trees? Does anyone have the answer. I would wanna add this feature to my mod.

This concerns adding an invisiblilityUpdate module. Give me a min to check out the correct one.

Edit:

	Behavior = InvisibilityUpdate ModuleTag_ElvenCamouflage
		InvisibilityNugget
			InvisibilityType	= CAMOUFLAGE
			DetectionRange		= CAMOUFLAGE_RADIUS
			ForbiddenConditions	= AWAY_FROM_TREES MOVING FIRING_ANY
		End
		UpdatePeriod			= 2000
		StartsActive			= Yes
	End

Add this code to the ent objects in data\ini\Object\goodfaction\units\ents\entsinfantry.ini

And if you want Treebeard to have the feat to, add it to his object as well. (treeberd.ini, in the same folder)

Solinx

Can this apply for any unit? For instance, would it work on Men of Dale?

[Juissi]

Yes I think that it would because it is just the code which makes units visible when they are near trees. But Im not sure about this part "ElvenCamouflage". If I give it example to Orc should that word Elven be changed to something like morder or something.

[Solinx]

Yes I think that it would because it is just the code which makes units visible when they are near trees. But Im not sure about this part "ElvenCamouflage". If I give it example to Orc should that word Elven be changed to something like morder or something.

It can be used for any unit, on one condition.
The object musn't have a module with the same tag (ModuleTag_ElvenCamouflage) Since I got this code from an include file, any object with

#include "..\..\..\includes\DefaultInvisibilityUpdate.inc"

already has this module. Adding it to these objects would be useless anyway, since they already have the exact same ability and it will produce an error besides that.

Solinx

[Bart]

for the record: moduletags don't really do much, they're just names. the only use i can think of is to identify modules in the engine and when making childobjects (that remove or change modules)