Onoffable LUPS effects?

[tyran_nick]

I ve been working on a reactor. I want to be able to deactivate it to increase its resistance to damage using the armored tag. I have managed to make onoffable lups for when the reactor is on, but I can't find how to make a second lups effect on, to use when the reactor is deactived. To give you a better idea of what I m talking about:

Activated reactor


Deactived reactor


All I want to do is a shield effect (no real shield - I take care of it using the damage modifier) around the unit when its deactivated, however this corresponds to the off state of the unit and the onactive=true tag doesn't help here.

Any ideas?

[SanadaUjiosan]

I don't know how to do it, but I will say really awesome reactor model and idea. I hope someone gives you a hand!

[Pressure Line]

Attach an always-on shield effect to an invisible point object, and have that point do a "move to y-axis -10000 now" when the reactor is 'on' and a corresponding "move to y-axis 0 now" when the reactor is 'off' and shielded.

[jK]

however this corresponds to the off state of the unit and the onactive=true tag doesn't help here.

Works fine here.
You know that Lua is case sensitive?

[Pressure Line]

What he means jK is that onActive doesnt help, because he wants the opposite functionality (the effect is turned on when the unit is off)

[tyran_nick]

That worked perfectly! Thanks

[Pressure Line]

Nicely done :)

[Pressure Line]

Double-post! An 'offActive' switch might be nice, probably not that hard to do either now that I think about it.

[tyran_nick]

Would that need to be coded in the lups.lua file?

This is what I found for the onActive tag:

if (fx.onActive and (unitActive == -1)) then
unitActive = spGetUnitIsActive(unitID)
end

if (fx.under_construction == 1) then
underConstruction = spGetUnitRulesParam(unitID, "under_construction")
end

if ((not fx.onActive)or(unitActive)) and (underConstruction ~= 1) then
if (fx.Visible) then
fx.visible = fx:Visible()
else
...
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