Scripting a Nuke Blast?

Hmm. the explosion i don't know how to do, but you can destroy objects in a certain distance from a point, i think.

This should give you the effect that you are looking for. things to remember are the push radius of both objects and how much damage you are looking for. I tested it in the sim. and it works pretty good. The effect is that of a nuke going off and it was cool LOL.


<event name_arme="Event 2" id_arme="42b2db07-07d4-4064-90e2-4748d48c774e">
<if_exists name="Artemis" />
<if_variable name="trap" comparator="NOT" value="1.0" />
<if_distance name1="Artemis" name2="YourObject" comparator="LESS_EQUAL" value="300.0" />
<create count="1" type="mines" startX="50450.0" startY="-10.0" startZ="43850.0" endX="50450.0" endY="-10.0" endZ="43850.0" />
<set_variable name="trap" value="1.0" />
</event>

<event name_arme="Event 1" id_arme="26835f61-f55f-4b67-a714-9f4f0f49cd15">
<if_exists name="Artemis" />
<if_distance name1="Artemis" name2="YourObject" comparator="LESS_EQUAL" value="300.0" />
<if_variable name="trap" comparator="EQUALS" value="1.0" />
<if_variable name="ambush1" comparator="NOT" value="1.0" />
<addto_object_property value="1.0" property="triggersMines" name="Artemis" />
<set_variable name="ambush1" value="1.0" />
</event>

Dwayne's solution should work. The mine and the nuke have the same blast (currently). If you want a bigger explosion, then create another mine or two displaced slightly above and below the first mine on the Y axis. You'll get a huge KABLEWEEEE!

Can someone explain what the second event does that Dwayne lists? Specifically what does this line do?

<addto_object_property value="1.0" property="triggersMines" name="Artemis"/>

I haven't dived in to the scripting since the AI Stack overhaul. Can we give Artemis our own properties now?

Also, what are the name_arme and id_arme commands in the event declaration?

<addto_object_property value="1.0" property="triggersMines" name="Artemis"/>

This is use to trigger a mine by the named object. It is now part of the Mission scripting system.

name_arme and id_arme

Is use by the Mission Editor designed by Hissatsu to help keep track of the events in the editor.

http://www.artemis.eochu.com/?page_id=28#/20120419/artemis-mission-editor-ver-1204191-early-alph-1501862/page5/

Thank you.
That resulted in some comical testing. Forgot to have a non moving "wreck". By the time I got near it to trigger the event the mine spawned, but nowhere near either of us.

Don't suppose it's possible to create objects relative to an existing object?

Sorry at this time we can not do that due to the fact that mines are not a named objects.
You can due that with just about any named object like enemy ships, neutral ships, Stations.

<set_relative_position name2="YourObject" distance="100" angle="10.0" name1="Artemis" />

and for generic meshes

<set_relative_position name2="Artemis" distance="100" angle="10.0" name1="generic mesh" />

I added this line in the start area were I create the YourObject to keep it from moving to represent a derelict ship.

<add_ai type="DIR_THROTTLE" value1="0.0" value2="0.0" name="YourObject" />

Eric, if you don't mind writing a huge amount of code then you can have the mine spawn anywhere you like, just write one event for every possible set of coordinates where you want to spawn. If you want to use all 100,000 x 100,000 whole number grid coordinates then you will have 10,000,000,000 events for spawning mines.

Interesting... I might try that.