adding landing pad lights on a skirmish map

[carbon dude oxide]

hello i would like to add the LZ lights (just like the ones on the campaign) onto a map that i am making how would I do this?

[NoQ]

No way, i think. There must be a wzscript function for this though, probably setLandingZone() ...

[carbon dude oxide]

i have been having a look into it and this is a function for it in the campaign scripts.

how would i add a script to a skirmish map? once i know how to do that i can play around with it myself

[NoQ]

Mostly depends on the game version. In 2.3 you had rules.slo/rules.vlo to mod up. In 3.1/master you don't have this, cause this is now controlled by javascript (rules.js), which doesn't have such function yet afaik, so i'm not sure it's possible at all (probably hacking this into multilim.slo or Nexus AI code or something like that could help).

[carbon dude oxide]

any idea when it will?

or howi could make a new structure/feature with a blinking animation?

[NoQ]

Making blinking structures should be possible, you now see those rotating factory fans, building animations were enabled recently. No idea about when anything happens in the scripting, it is all mostly in the scripting forum.

[carbon dude oxide]

well i shall have a look around, i have a couple of mods and i will have a look at it

[stiv]

Ping Berg. He was showing me a Headquarters the other day with some nice blinky lights on it.

[carbon dude oxide]

hmm what txt files do i need to edt in order to add a new structure (assuming already have the pie file)

[NoQ]

stats/structs.txt
messages/strings/names.txt
wrf/piestats.wrf
wrf/vidmem*.wrf if you need a new texture for it.
Replace struct with feature if you need a feature.
(i might forget something)

[carbon dude oxide]

In each of these i nee to add a new line of csv is there anything specific that i hve to add into them such as names must begin with A0 ect

[NoQ]

names must begin with A0 ect

No, not really, not much more than explained in the wiki. Just don't forget the newline at the end of file.
You can post your attempts here and we'll see if there are any particular issues, but they're usually obvious if you observe stderr messages closely.

Also, your map will break every time any of these files changes on the game side (for instance, both in beta10->beta11 and in beta11->rc2 we had changes in vidmem.wrf)

[carbon dude oxide]

ok np ^.^ if i get it working then i should know how to get i working on a newer version wish me luck

[carbon dude oxide]

ok i tested for the first time and i got this error



what have i done wrong ^.^

[NoQ]

1. i'd need to see what you have actually done, 2. a complete log should be more helpful.