Note: Only exactly the same BuildingTypes of the same house can support each other.
A number of minor bugs have been fixed.
Support beams will be drawn using the characters of the BuildingType's (Elite)Secondary weapon. If no such weapon is set then no beam will be drawn at all. The weapon is not actually fired, only the IsLaser/IsElectricBolt/IsRadBeam effect is parsed.
The original tag [General]\PrismSupportDuration=, is obsolete now. The laser duration will now be loaded from [PrismSupport]\LaserDuration=.
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 11:15 am Post subject:
GZ
damn you and your $5 words....lol. I am not a fan of either the prism tower of tesla coils, but both works are quite interesting.
I could see myself using either in a way as if there were electric fence style, but that isn't on my immediate agenda. _________________ I am authorized to send out the TMP Studio, PM ME IF YOU WANT IT And check this out, these were sent to me for help with terrain and zdata help along with TMP Studio/Builder
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 12:36 pm Post subject:
Well, I don't see a major difference between Ares and GZ's Prism-Forwarding. Might be that GZ still only accept one Prism tower, which is a blame, considering how many PT clone SHPs are in the community.
So I favor Ares's one.
And don't tell me it's useless, Mouse, I find it much more useful than you think. QUICK_EDIT
Well, I don't see a major difference between Ares and GZ's Prism-Forwarding. Might be that GZ still only accept one Prism tower, which is a blame, considering how many PT clone SHPs are in the community..
According to the first post, it's actually about having capability to create multiple structures with abilities akin to Prism Tower, only with customizable support weapons. Presumably forwarding only works between structures of same type. Then again if that's what you meant.. Multiple different types buildings able to interact & support each other, right?
The major difference lies in the fact that, judging by the first post, GZ does not have the actual forwarding logic additions and controls that you have in Ares, such as allies' towers able to being support each other etc. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 1:55 pm Post subject:
I can also think that IsCustomPrismTower can only apply to PrismTypes, which is in <s>RulesClass::Instance (woops, too much YR++ reading)</s> [General] and can only have one entry. QUICK_EDIT
Umm... There's another remarkable thing in this picture - house-colored electric bolts.
@Graion Dilach:
No. It's mainly used to make more types of Prism Towers.
A BuildingType is considered a Prism Tower, if it has IsCustomPrismTower=yes, or its ID equals [General]\PrismType=. If IsCustomPrismTower=yes then the prism support arguments will be read from this BuildingType, otherwise from [General]. _________________ Fusion Reactor upgrade is complete.
We will prevail!!! Last edited by LH_Mouse on Sat May 28, 2011 2:02 pm; edited 2 times in total QUICK_EDIT
Well, I don't see a major difference between Ares and GZ's Prism-Forwarding. Might be that GZ still only accept one Prism tower, which is a blame, considering how many PT clone SHPs are in the community..
According to the first post, it's actually about having capability to create multiple structures with abilities akin to Prism Tower, only with customizable support weapons. Presumably forwarding only works between structures of same type. Then again if that's what you meant.. Multiple different types buildings able to interact & support each other, right?
The major difference lies in the fact that, judging by the first post, GZ does not have the actual forwarding logic additions and controls that you have in Ares, such as allies' towers able to being support each other etc.
Exactly. So far it seems that Ares' Prism Forwarding is much more functional so I don't kinda get why LH says it's pointless or useless. Care to elaborate why GZ's Prism Forwarding is not?
House colored electric bolts will be in Ares as well. Graion made them and you can do more than just set them to house color. _________________ mentalomega.com QUICK_EDIT
I'm not sure whether DCoder will be interested in the algorithm of those house-colored electric bolts here. The color 1 and 3 were set to the house's laser color, while color 2 was constantly set to white(actually it was 248,252,248). _________________ Fusion Reactor upgrade is complete.
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 2:44 pm Post subject:
Have you read Speeder's response? I did HouseBoltColors and Ares will use my algorythm. DCoder just assisted to learn the proper Ares way.
I have a tag for it, Bolt.ColorSpread=integer.
Color1=Color (not LaserColor, I didn't noticed a difference)
Color2=Color + Spread (R+Spread, G+Spread, B+ pread)
Color3=Color - Spread (same, just with minus)
I noticed that a spread around 100 are the nicest, but I thought I should give some freedom with it. QUICK_EDIT
The "color" you mentioned above is the color used by IsHouseColor=yes lasers, so there's no problem calling it "laser color".
Your algorithm produces three electric bolts among which there is a dark bolt. I think it's a little disharmonious. _________________ Fusion Reactor upgrade is complete.
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject:
LH_Mouse wrote:
The "color" you mentioned above is the color used by IsHouseColor=yes lasers, so there's no problem calling it "laser color".
According to YR++, you're wrong. Westwood defined a separate Color and LaserColor in HouseClass although I didn't notice a color difference, I clearly say that those must be different.
Read the public members, there is a ColorStruct Color and a ColorStruct LaserColor right after it. They can't be the same. I guess if you can find where HouseClass is defined, you can track down the two separate ColorStructs in it.
And no, it's not disharmonous unlike the two white bolts. It's more closer to the standard EBolt than the IsAlternateBolt colors, I agree, but that's definitely better. QUICK_EDIT
Well, I don't see a major difference between Ares and GZ's Prism-Forwarding. Might be that GZ still only accept one Prism tower, which is a blame, considering how many PT clone SHPs are in the community.
So I favor Ares's one.
Ares supports "support" and "attack" towers, among other awesome stuff like supporting allied towers, coils, and even rad beam support
lots of it will be unused by 99% of the community to the extent it is in the video, but nobody is pretending that scenario will ever crop up in game, it's a tech demo, a chance to flaunt what you've got, and it demonstrates how versatile the logic is. _________________ MIdAS - Turning wages into beer since 2002 QUICK_EDIT
That video was meant to show off what it 'can' do, not what you 'should' do. And who doesn't want to create crazy ridiculous nonsense just for the hell of it? QUICK_EDIT
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