Is Gap Gen Ability Possible?

Player1 · Soldier **Joined**: 05 Jan 2010

Does anyone know how I could get the Gap Gen/Mobile Gap Gen to work, the effect. Is it at all possible to Shroud an area to another player and not the player controlling the unit?

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

no, it's not possible. TS simply doesn't has the necessary logic inherited from RA1.

The only thing you can do is letting the shroud grow back and/or the fog of war. (see ShroudGrow, ShroudRate, FogOfWar, FogRate)

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Player1 · Soldier **Joined**: 05 Jan 2010

Thanks Lin, thought so just confirming.

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Lord Unforgiven · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:40 am Post subject:

The closest I've got is giving a structure a wide-area very negative light value. This way that part of the map gets very dark and you're unable to see what's going on.

There are many disadvantages:
- AI doesn't see a difference, for human players only.
- The radar map will still show.
- MoveToShroud=No will of course not stop any units from going to the area.
- Tiberium patches will stay perfectly visible, as will anything crossing it.
- Both you and enemy players will see this 'fog'.
- Don't save the game or you're stuck with the GAP forever.

However, I do see some potential for campaigns.

Player1 · Soldier **Joined**: 05 Jan 2010

I figured it will be something like that, hopefully Hyper can fix that with his Patch.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Why do you want a gap gen anyway?
The AI and the player units can fire on enemies under the shroud anyway, so i doubt that a gap gen would give you any protection at all.

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Allied General · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:03 am Post subject:

Well its hiding information from the human player which mean they may be forced to use x resources to explore it or random fire which isn't as effect in TS due to lack of significant cell spread.

Also afaik by default aircraft have MoveToShroud=no in TS so a bit more micro would be required.

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Player1 · Soldier **Joined**: 05 Jan 2010

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

Why do you want a gap gen anyway?
The AI and the player units can fire on enemies under the shroud anyway, so i doubt that a gap gen would give you any protection at all.

Cause I'm making a RA1 mod for DTA.

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Player1 wrote:

Cause I'm making a RA1 mod for DTA.

I did that years ago for original DTA. Original Menu, units, shps, sidebar, sounds, movies and everything was all included. But it gets a bit boring when you can't 100% make a MAD Tank or mechanic. Iron Curtain, Chrono Tech, paradrop, spy plane, GPS (without ETS), sonar pulse, chrono vortex, thief, gap generator... the list goes on... In the end I found it more worthwhile to just... play RA1 Aftermath.

Orac · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:32 am Post subject:

With RA being free now, it seems to me to be better to innovate in TS..
But DTA still remains awesome, so I may have proven myself wrong #Tongue