Odf help

posted on December 19th, 2011, 2:58 am

use FO's parameters, then have the ship replace into the one with the physics you would prefer once arrived. You could even have the ship have no movement when warping in, and have a set delay in replacement (transferring to your command).

I actually attempted this, but I couldn't get it to work.  I believe that the ship was autoreplacing as soon as the ship was placed, and therefore never made it to the location.  Since the ship pics a random spot to warp from, I can't give it a universal delay, because it would either replace too soon, or get to the spot and wait for a long time to replace..

posted on December 19th, 2011, 3:11 am

Well, if you are only making the mod for a few maps, you can always set a standard delay time - especially if your flight time is quite fast . For instance, if your warpInSpeed is 2000, it takes around 10 seconds to arrive presumably on even some of the largest maps - a delay of around that long should serve pretty well then .

The waiting thing I was just explaining was just a "transfer to your command" -> you could have an in-game reason for it, or you could even have the warp in object be a exit-from-hyperspace effect, which then replaces into a ship via an exiting animation

posted on December 19th, 2011, 3:17 am

Yeah, I will give it a try, but at this rate, it is more trouble than its worth.  A replace out of thin air is not that much different than a very fast jump from the side of the map.

posted on December 19th, 2011, 3:22 am

Obviously entirely your decision, but it is a replace out of an exit-from hyperspace effect, which isn't entirely thin air. We didn't see the Star Wars stuff in hyperspace from normal space...  . I'm just making excuses for doing fun effects

posted on December 19th, 2011, 3:52 am

Oof, well finally got that working.  I'm still not really happy with how slow the ship moves, but I will continue working on that I guess.

posted on December 20th, 2011, 2:27 am

Alright, now I need an odf that will automatically remove an object from the map after 15 seconds or so.  Sounds simple to me but I can't get it to work. 

posted on December 20th, 2011, 2:42 am

autoExpireTime
That's for Craft

posted on December 20th, 2011, 2:43 am

Cool, I will give it a try.