question of a amphibious nature

[oksnoop2]

I want my amphibious mechs to behave like subs while in the water, that is swim shortly below the surface. And when they reach land, they change their orientation and begin walking upright. I tried setSFXoccupy ( 1 curTerrainType ) from the lua wiki, but it keeps telling me to correct the line in confusing ways, like adding "..."'s and "("'s near curTerrainType. Any suggestions?

[SanadaUjiosan]

Has anyone done aquatic mechs/units like this?

From what I've seen of BA, amphibious units for the most part just travel on the seafloor like normal, and are just allowed to cross the waterline. I think that's pretty boring.

[TheRegisteredOne]

This is actually ridiculously easy. Lol. Someone else should come forth with details =p.

[SanadaUjiosan]

Yes, someone should. My project's more or less hit a relative crawl because the last units I need to make are the two amphibious mechs.

[FLOZi]

Check out the DUKW in S44.

http://spring1944.svn.sourceforge.net/v ... iew=markup

And this script include;

http://spring1944.svn.sourceforge.net/v ... iew=markup

Although it'd probably be better to use SetSFXOccupy than running the loop

[SinbadEV]

your basically asking for a hovercraft BTW

[knorke]

Pelcian amphi bots in numerous *a mods transform when going into/out water if that is of any help.

[zwzsg]

Hovers travel over the surface.
Ships travel at the surface.
Subs travel under the surface.


Learn the difference. It could save your comm.

[SinbadEV]

I feel this thread has not gone sufficiently off-topic:

http://wimp.com/flyinghovercraft/

[SanadaUjiosan]

Infolog:

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[      0] Failed to load: bamphmech.lua  ([string "scripts/bamphmech.lua"]:42: <name> or '...' expected near '1')

Script:

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	function script.setSFXoccupy(1)
		Turn(waist, x_axis, 1.55, 10)
	end

Maybe I'm just stupid, but the infolog's suggestion doesn't make sense to me. Suggestions?

Let it be said that the LuaCallins and LuaCallouts pages in the wiki may make sense to people who already know it, but parts of it aren't very intuitive to people who are ignorant of the whole lua process.

Oh, and that link was pretty cool. I hadn't seen that before. That'd be pretty awesome to have.

[Tobi]

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	function script.setSFXoccupy(1)
	end

What makes you think this is a correct function declaration?

Hint: look what is usually between the parentheses.

[SanadaUjiosan]

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	function script.setSFXoccupy(1)
	end

What makes you think this is a correct function declaration?

Hint: look what is usually between the parentheses.

If I thought it was correct I wouldn't be asking for some help.

setSFXoccupy ( number curTerrainType ) -> nil
Called when terrain type changes. Terrain type is calculated with the following rules (in this order):
If unit is being transported -> curTerrainType = 0
If ground height < -5 and unit is always upright -> curTerrainType = 2
If ground height < -5 and unit is not always upright -> curTerrainType = 1
If ground height < 0 and unit is always upright -> curTerrainType = 1
Otherwise -> curTerrainType = 4
Where is curTerrainType = 3 ?
Candidate to be changed to something saner later on.

That's what I'm going from. I tried throwing in the curTerrainType in there too but it didn't work either. The (1) was my last attempt before I posted what I had.

Infolog gives me the same error when I have that in there.

[FLOZi]

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function script.setSFXoccupy(sfxType)
  if sfxType == 0 then
    -- unit is being transported
  else if sfxType == 1 then
    -- your unit is in water
  end
end

And so on.

Edit; what's with the strange capitalisation in setSFXoccupy? Why not SetSFXOccupy?