Displaying a structure through the shroud, possible?

Droke

I am looking to use preplaced structures on a map to inform the player of major terrain elements and points of interest through the shroud, much like a simplified GPS. How would I go about doing this? I have heard of objects and animations displaying over shroud when bugging out, but I don't know where to start looking to trigger it intensionally.

Thanks in advance.

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PillBox20 · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 3:35 pm Post subject:

Can't you give it small sight range and make it visible like the superweapons are?
RevealToAll=yes is set on the superweapons.

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Droke · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:05 pm Post subject:

That would be detrimental in my case. I am looking to do this to allow players to navigate through a shrouded map while keeping enemy activity hidden.

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MustaphaTR · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:47 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure if this effects others but for anims AltPalette=yes tag makes them visible over shourd.

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:49 pm Post subject:

The weather clouds in default YR artmd.ini has a tag which renders them above shroud. I'd suggest to have a building animation with those tags as start.

Or AttachEffect.Anim with those.

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Starkku · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:21 pm Post subject:

Graion Dilach wrote:

The weather clouds in default YR artmd.ini has a tag which renders them above shroud. I'd suggest to have a building animation with those tags as start.

Or AttachEffect.Anim with those.

It's not the tag that causes them to render above shroud. It's something specific to the weather storm cloud animations, resumably a hardcoded render layer property.

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MustaphaTR · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:57 pm Post subject:

Starkku wrote:

Graion Dilach wrote:

The weather clouds in default YR artmd.ini has a tag which renders them above shroud. I'd suggest to have a building animation with those tags as start.

Or AttachEffect.Anim with those.

It's not the tag that causes them to render above shroud. It's something specific to the weather storm cloud animations, resumably a hardcoded render layer property.

Do you guys even read older comments i said it is AltPalette=. It is not hardcoded. It is a bug that can be fixed by using Ares' palette tags.

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silverwind · Cyborg Firebomber **Joined**: 11 Jun 2016

The lightning storm clouds use Layer=Top

"Top" is supposed to render it above the should.

I don't know about this AltPalette= bug, as I've never personally encountered it before.

Droke · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 5:15 am Post subject:

Did some testing. Layer=top had no effect in this case, but AltPalette does the trick neatly. Thanks everyone for the assistance.

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