Developing a Timespace Twister-Weapon.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

I am looking for the coding on the GoC's timestop feature, and the
Wave effect(like when a Sung Citadel explodes); except I want to
be able to make time slow/ speed up, and make waves move inward,
not just outward. I've looked through the Transcendence source
files, and I can't find anything.

[Drako Slyith]

I'm not sure if that is possible. You can slow time with some timers of freezing time for 1 tick, then unfreezing it for another, then refreezing, which will slow time to 1/2 speed (in theory). I think the waves can only go outward. Also, you can't make time go backwards.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

a dissapointment. doesn't matter, I made a Cannpn that fires Thermo-explosions. you should try it sometime.

Could you get me the source for the time stop possibly?

[Drako Slyith]

The function is

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(sysStopTime time Object)

Time is how many ticks you want to freeze time for. Object is the object that isn't frozen. (you have to have an object here or it won't work)

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

so, ObjPlayer would make everything but the Player freeze for that amount of time?


Hey, Why only GoC; Why is there not a Domina power that does that?

[Drako Slyith]

I'm not sure why there's not a Domina power to freeze time. I guess George just didn't put it in. But you want to use gPlayership for the player, other than that you are correct.

[sdw195]

i think it would cause issues with weapon fire and explosions that would freeze, so a whole lot more bugs to fix

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

Alright! down to bidness. how do I implement systimestop when I hit an enemy with my weapon?

Also, could I make it where only the Hit enemy is frozen,
and everybody else continues to move?

[Drako Slyith]

I think this might work:

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<Events>
<OnDamageArmor>
(block (EveryThingElse)
(setq EveryThingelse (lnkRemove (sysFindObject gSource "sT") gSource))
(sysStopTime 300 EveryThingElse)
)
</OnDamageArmor>
</Events

That freezes time for 10 seconds for only the object hit. (it should anyway, I haven't tested it)

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

Hmm.. The game doesn't crash, but it says it needs an identifier. ??

Oh, and a close tag had to be put at the end.

[Drako Slyith]

What does the dbgLog say?

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

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04/12/2011 14:02:32	OnDamageArmor [Wolfen]: Identifier expected: (sysFindObject gSource "sT") ### (lnkRemove (sysFindObject gSource "sT") gSource) ###

The Wolfen is anything I shot at.

[Drako Slyith]

I think I know what the problem is. Try this:

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<Events>
<OnDamageArmor>
(block (EveryThingElse AllList)
(setq AllList (sysFindObject gSource "sT"))
(setq EveryThingelse (lnkRemove AllList gSource))
(sysStopTime 300 EveryThingElse)
)
</OnDamageArmor>
</Events>

[alterecco]

The last last argument to sysTimeStop must be a single object. It does not accept a list. The only object it would make sense to put there would be gPlayerShip... In general I think you will be hard pressed to make this mod work well.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

Hmm... another Error:

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04/12/2011 15:49:11	OnDamageArmor [freighter Ologous]: Insufficient arguments ### (lnkRemove AllList gSource) ###