Height Detection in Spring

[ILMTitan]

Scheme, a Lisp dialect, is my favorite language to program in. I have only used it in a class though, so I've never had to use it for something more real. It saddens me that parenthesis scare you.

[KDR_11k]

[Boogalizer]

Alright so maybe height detection is bad form, and there is easier/better ways to do it in spring... but for the first version of Devolution in spring i don't mind if the scripts aren't super clean. I want to attempt just to bring what I did in TA into Spring, and apparently to do that I need to remeasure heights. I tried throwing zwzsg's caliper into my mod to do that, but I quickly realized that it needs the custom number textures included in the caliper.ufo file. How do I add textures from a gaf file into spring?

[rattle]

You have to convert them to a format spring can read, i.e. bmp, tga, png etc. Alpha channel is the team color mask IIRC.

Take a look at .\Spring\base\tatextures_v062.sdz (it's a zip file).

Animated GAFs aren't supported at all, so you'd have to clone geometry and use show/hide for animation.

[Dragon45]

...and more like lisp

lisp is the second best language in the world after perl

i've never made anything in lisp

what the heck is up with you and declarative programming languages

[SinbadEV]

Man, I'm sure there's a way to spit out a unit's height to LUA or something... in s3o format you specify the unit's height so it's a non-issue in there... hmmmm

I'm not very LUA savy but there should be like a:

UnitDefs[216]["height"] property that could be read by a script... and script something simple like:

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local color  = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 }
local theheight = "None Selected"

function UnitSelected(unitID, unitDefID, teamID)
       gl.Color(color)
       theheight = ("UnitCreated: id=" .. unitID .. " Name: " UnitDefs[unitID]["model"]["name"]" .. " Height: " UnitDefs[unitID]["height"])
       gl.Text(theheight, 500, 500, size, format)

end

Excepts the whole LUA interface is documented in such a way that I am completely baffled by it so what I have suggested is comletely wrong... maybe someone like trepan can fix it.

[Nemo]

http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9934 a simple way to find unit heights ingame. in pure BOS.

[KDR_11k]

I'd like to mention get PRINT(a,b,c,d). Outputs those four values to the console. Put get PRINT(get UNIT_HEIGHT(get MY_ID)); into your unit's script and it'll output its height to the console.

[FLOZi]

Height detection works fine. And as KDR pointed out, get PRINT can provide you with a simple means of reading values from BOS. Tis why I made it.

[SinbadEV]

Where are console messages sent when there is no console?

[rattle]

To the logfile.

[FLOZi]

N.B. KDR meant Spring chat.