Spring RTS Engine

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?

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!

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.

tyran_nick wrote: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?

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)

That worked perfectly! Thanks

Nicely done :)

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

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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