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blind in the shadows

2002-01-29, 6:38 AM #1

kwigibo

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Posts: 76

is there an editing way to do this or does anyone have suggestions on how to cog this: I was kinda wanting a way to specify sectors that a player (sp) can be in and the ai won't see him. this would be so the whole sneaking around/shadow hiding type of game play could be exploited. I thought it could be like player enters sector 'A' and while in sector 'A' = AI can't see (or force persuasion without the sparkles or sound.? or something similar to what lordx-t_ij is saying in his post

[This message has been edited by kwigibo (edited January 29, 2002).]

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2002-01-29, 9:17 AM #2

SaberMaster

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Posts: 1,420

The 0x80 Actor Flag will make the player invisible to AIs. Haven't tested it, but this cog should work. It should also work correctly with persuasion.

Code:

# shadowsector.cog
#
# Make the player invisible to AI when he enters a sector by setting the 0x80 Actor Flag.
# The pulse is continually setting the flag because persuasion may turn it off.
#
# [SM]
#======================================================================#
symbols

sector	shadows

thing		player	local

message	entered
message	exited
message	pulse

end
#======================================================================#
code
#----------------------------------------------------------------
entered:
	player=GetLocalPlayerThing();
	SetPulse(0.1);

Return;
#----------------------------------------------------------------
exited:
	SetPulse(0);
	// Don't clear the flag if the player has turned on persuasion.
	if(!IsInvActivated(player, 26)) ClearTypeFlags(player, 0x80);

Return;
#----------------------------------------------------------------
pulse:
	SetTypeFlags(player, 0x80);

Return;
#----------------------------------------------------------------
end

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2002-01-29, 3:47 PM #3

kwigibo

Registered User

Posts: 76

cool, thanks. I'll test it out. If I ever end up actually using, you'll be in there!

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