Destroying Nebulae, then recreating them

TreChipman said Aug 07, 2012
I have a multi-sector preliminary build here.It needs some fleshing out, and needs to be 1.652 compliant, but it's a start.

I am currently working on a 26 sector (Systems) for the BSG Mod. The coding is good. The system to system jumping works great. if you download this mission it will give you some idea on what you need to make the system to system jump work.

Thanks for the reply, but clicking that link above only takes me to the main page of the forum. Is there some trick to downloading your mission?

Here is the page the download link is on the mission is Tre Chipman. It is located ath the bottom of the page.


http://www.artemis.eochu.com/?page_id=28%23/20110719/mission-script-ref-150-735454/page2/#/20110719/mission-script-ref-150-735454/page2/

The forum software doesn't always seem to link internally correctly. Try downloading it directly from here. Word of warning: it's still a very early build and has a few bugs, but if you look at the LRS in the initial system, then jump to another system (the singularity-looking things are jump points), do an LRS, then jump back to Sol, you'll see that the original Nebulas were removed on the first jump, and replaced on the second.

Asteroids, Mines, and Nebulas get destroyed differently from named objects-- on exiting the system, I do this:

<destroy_near type ="nebulas" centerX="50000" centerY="0" centerZ="50000" radius ="75000"/>
<destroy_near type ="asteroids" centerX="50000" centerY="0" centerZ="50000" radius ="75000"/>
<destroy_near type ="mines" centerX="50000" centerY="0" centerZ="50000" radius ="75000"/>

This builds a sphere centered in the middle of the sector and destroys all the unnamed items, and then on re-entering the system, you create them again as usual. Note that I haven't factored in whales or space monsters yet, but it's a start.

I used simular code in a mission of mine. works great.

Thanks for you help everyone. My initial approach was the same as suggested above, but it wasn't working. I've solved the problem, and I did it by building a timer into my destroy events that has to finish in order for the create events to start. I only set it to 1 second, but this seems to be a sufficient delay so my destroy commands aren't overlapping my create commands, which I think was the problem.

Hope to share the results with you soon.

One thing I ran into with doing this, that sounds like it could be a part of tieguyny issue...

I had to space the events out for destroying old nebula and creating new nebula by a 1 second timer. It seemed like if you let both trigger at the same time, the destroying destroys both your old and new nebula.

Wow AaronMacke, thanks for the reply! I guess I was posting mine at the exact time you were posting yours! I guess we've got a confirmed issue and a verified workaround.

Thanks again.

Great minds post alike, I guess... :)