The *easier* way to make map objects.

[Anonymous]

I shortened this code to make it easier to display, but it should give you an idea of a really easy way to make maps without having to get a napkin and write down numbers.

This is in a file i made called hellmines.cs :

function makemap(%action)
{
   if(%action == "make") {
   say(0, "#spawndis mine8 hellmines1 349.4 -1010 272.5 0 0 -3.14");
   // Add more Items for the map here
   }
   if(%action == "destroy") {
   say(0, "#deldis hellmines1");
   // For every item you make add the delete line here
   }
   if(%action == "addbots") {
   say(0, "#loadout pitdemon CLASS ranger LVL 666 LCK 10 kailsbow 1 darrow 500");
   // Add all your bots here.
   }
   if(%action == "killbots") {
   say(0, "#kill PitDemon1");
   // Add a kill line for each bot here.
   }
}

Now that looks complicated but once you understand what it does, it makes adding new areas in game really easy. I just keep a copy of notepad and tribes open. Then when ive got the shape where i want it, i alt-tab out and paste the command i used in the appropriate spot.
To add a new line to it put this :

say(0, "what you typed here");

then file->save. then i go back to the game, go to console( the ~ key)  and type exec("filename.cs");
for me its hellmines.cs so i type exec("hellmines.cs");
(will only work if your file is in your /config folder) in order to make it load the newer saved copy.

To run the script in game, pull down your console (~ key) then type makemap("make"); or makemap("addbots"); and itll perform the part that matches what you typed.

Also as a function "makemap" it has 4 things that %action can be.
"Make"     I put all my code for making the area here
"Destroy" I put all my code for deleting the whole thing here
"addbots" I put all my code for spawning the bots here
"killbots" I put all my code to kill off all the bots here.

You could even expand it by making a new action called "healall", where it heals all the bots in your zone, to do this :
if(%action == "healbots") {
      say(0, "#sethp 99999 PitDemon1");
      // Add a heal line for each bot here.
      }

and then makemap(healbots); will heal all your bots Im hoping that by showing you a new part to it, that it might make your understand more how it works.

Then i used my binded keys to spawn and delete items on the base.you can replace f1 with a key of your choice.

bindCommand(keyboard0, make, "f1", TO, "makemap("make")");

And you'll find your coding goes by much faster with that.
May not make sense , but if it does, im sure itll speed you up alot. Im hoping that if you understand how to map that running this script wont be too much work.

[Coal]

*rubs eyes*

[Darwin]

Someday, SOMEDAY, they'll make a map maker that uses a simple point and click interface.  Lets see, you see the entire grid, select a row of the grid by clicking on its #, then editing that grid.  

[Anonymous]

it looks like i stumped everyone. oops. maybe it shoudla been "the easier way to make map objects if you know a little about coding and a little about making map objects"

[Coal]

I just snaped the objects to a grid.. i didnt know you could actually code where they went.. weew

[eViL]

ya didn't lose me lucid =)  i know what that stuff does and how it works, so i understood it.

and coal, sometime when u are running a server, try GameBase::GetPosition(<your client id>); and you will get 3 numbers, "x y z", thats the position on the map you are at.  everything is placed onto a map using positions.

[Coal]

But how do you find X Y and Z.. and what is a client;)

[Darwin]

X, Y, and Z should just be like that on a coordinate plain, like what you did in geometry: (5, -3, 14) etc....

Client is just what the average joe uses, right?  Like ppl that dont run the servers, right?

I hope that was an educated guess, cause I just thought all that up off the top of my head.

*edit*
So really the map is just a giant cooridinate plain, and the center of the map would be (0, 0, 0)

[Particle]

Well, it makes it nice to be a permanent part of the mis itself.

[eViL]

darwin, incorrect, client as in client id or object id.  client id's are usually between 2048 and 2080, and object ids are in the 8000's somewhere *doesn't care to use them so screw 'em*

[Darwin]

Arrg, eViL just confused me...

Where the hell did those numbers come from?

I think I was thinking along the lines of clientside software and serverside software, like you would find for half life and other games like when you download patches.

Jeebus, I hope I do not confuse people as well when I talk.  But I just spent all my brainpower working on geometry homework, so please forgive me.

[Particle]

It's ok, just remember when you see this formula:
TTr2 (Pi x radius squared).

Pi r not square, pie are round!

[Darwin]

MMMM... Pie

I guess all I can do is get a lazy job as an A+ technitian, hell, that would be nice.  They get paid good diniero.  Looks like eViL will hack a bank someday and get a hella lotta money.  Particle will prob run multiple servers in the future, ultimately making his own MMORPG, and Hawk will be a bum on the street cause he cant spell "macrebe"

I wrote that because you guys seem to have a broader idea of what goes on in the tribes engine than I ever will.

if(%action == "addbots") {
      say(0, "#loadout pitdemon CLASS ranger LVL 666 LCK 10 kailsbow 1 darrow 500");
      // Add all your bots here.
      }

I'm glad geometry isnt this hard, or there would be cherry pie spilled all over my geometry book.

[Zieg_Feld]

LoL

[Particle]

lol