"UberWaffe" said:
WAZZAL II EMP SYSTEM - HELP NEEDED:

Problem 1: EMP system is turning out more difficult than anticipated. I can't find any effect that can set a creatures minimum speed to zero for a time.

"ZeXLR8er!!" said:
Yes, Doogsy's right, I've found that it always works when an effect fails, but the defualt text shows when a condition fails. Is this how its supposed to work, Ville?

"ville" said:
UberWaffe:
So you want to stop the creature when this EMP happens or what? Changing the minimum speed is not possible, but maybe what you're looking for could be simulated.

"Quanrian" said:
If you want to reduce somethings speed you'll have to use the same effect used by the Stun Tazor in Notrium. You'd set it to something really low like 0.1.

250;//interval in milliseconds
begin_conditions;
3;//condition
2.000000;//condition parameter0
75.000000;//condition parameter1
end_conditions;
begin_effects;
1;//effect number
500.000000;//parameter1
12.000000;//parameter2
0.000000;//parameter3
0.000000;//parameter4
end_effects;
125;//msec : AI MOVE / EMP STOP SCRIPT
begin_conditions;
5;//condition
2.000000;//condition parameter0
75.000000;//condition parameter1
end_conditions;
begin_effects;
67;//effect number
0.250000;//parameter1
0.000000;//parameter2
0.000000;//parameter3
0.000000;//parameter4
end_effects;

"ville" said:
I don't think there is an elegant solution to that. You could remove the whole minimum speed variable, and get that effect by pushing the creature when it is not EMP'd, but that might not be much better.

"Quanrian" said:
You could even set up some built in timed creature effects that change the creature's AI tactic depending on distance from player. By changing the AI you can switch their AI to something else that more closely works in unison with what you're trying to do.

"UberWaffe" said:
I had tried that but since they have a ranged weapon they stop when shooting at you. (Unless you give them reason to chase.)

"B0rsuk" said:
1.

Am I right :
It appears that there are only two ways to affect non-player creatures with effects:

a) hit effects in weapons.dat
b) hit effects in creatures.dat (being hit).

There's practically no way of affecting MANY creatures with SPECIFIED effect... ? Other than start alien attack...

"B0rsuk" said:
2.

Sorry if it was posted somewhere, but I couldn't find it with quick forum searches and I have very limited internet time.
Is there any site I can upload my mod to ?

"B0rsuk" said:
3. Is there any chance that new effects/conditions will be implemented ? Like, for instance, effect is triggered when bullet disappears without hitting anything, or when bullet disappears when hitting obstacle. (it's computed anyway, so I think it wouldn't increase CPU usage) I can provide many more examples. These 2 would allow modding handgrenades.

2=must be distance parameter1 + object size from plot_object class parameter0

"B0rsuk" said:
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Another condition I would REALLY like to see would be "player waits X seconds without clicking CANCEL", just like when you're combining items. At the moment when I want my fancy effects take time I have to make weird workarounds. (setting up explosives begs for this condition).

"Unc1354m" said:
ok, this may be really easy, But for my pirate mod, i need to change the steering EG, but ho do i, i need to make the ship turn around instead of just walking w,a,s,d to go that way This is my first mod and ive never done anything leik programming, so pls help

    56;//effect number
      2.000000;//parameter1
      0.000000;//parameter2
      0.000000;//parameter3
      0.000000;//parameter4

"Quanrian" said:
You'll need to use this effect again when you want to change it to something else, as on foot isn't as practical using that control scheme. I apologize that the Modding FAQ is out date now, but still use it as much as possible to help get you aquainted with at least the basics. This particular effect is covered in the Modding FAQ, only the newest ones from 1.3+ aren't.

"Unc1354m" said:
ok, another question, would it be possible to, have buried treasure. (E.G) you need a shovel, and you need to use it where the treasure is at

"Unc1354m" said:
yay, buried treasure

Pls could you explain or give the cods
Thanks

"Quanrian" said:
I just thought I'd let you all in on some information since I was testing it myself. The speciality 4 for creatures seems to apply both ways regardless of which creature in the interaction has the specialty. However, one of the creatures in the interaction DOES need to have it. I was able to use the new specialty to allow the player closer than the default collision detection would normally allow before it shoved the player back. I'm only noting this because I personally wasn't sure if I'd have to put it on the player and creatures or just one group. This specialty is especially effective for flying creatures.

Now you need to divide the day into minutes and hours. Each hour in a day in Notrium is roughly 8.33 seconds long.

"Doogsy" said:

Now you need to divide the day into minutes and hours. Each hour in a day in Notrium is roughly 8.33 seconds long.

Ok, so why is the in game minute counter increase by 7.2.? I'm just trying to work out if I increase the day length, how much i need to change the clock by.

"Doogsy" said:
thanks quan, I think i will just work backwards like you said.
Oh, and in the player races specialities, how ofter is it updated? For example, the drain food on easy goes down -0.25 every cycle, how ofter doess it occur? once every second, once every millisecond?

"Doogsy" said:
yeah but im pretty sure that it doesnt take 4 seconds to drain one food, if it updates once a second that is.