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ASSS Custom Projects - Hs_ufo

Dr Brain - Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:32 pm
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Here's my 5th publically released module. It's a ufo module. I made it for testing the possibility of a cloak that doesn't deactivate after firing a weapon. I eventually found this to be a dead end, so I'm releasing the module to the public.

The command /?ufo will toggle a player's UFO status. It's not much more than that, really.

BDwinsAlt - Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:02 pm
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Is there a way to detect if a weapon is fired and make the arena remember when cloak was or wasn't enabled before the firing?

Dr Brain - Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:03 pm
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Yes, but there's no acceptable way to act on that data.

Animate Dreams - Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:53 am
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Is it not possible to go in to ASSS's coding and change the way cloaking itself works, and take out the deactivation by weapon fire?

Dr Brain - Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:24 pm
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The fact that ASSS doesn't hold that code prevents that. Like most things in SubSpace, it's clientside.

Goldeye - Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:12 pm
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Can't you just lie and send out to other clients that the ship is in fact cloaked.
I'm about to do a lot of that to give hz a lot of control over how the ball works.

Dr Brain - Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:24 pm
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Goldeye wrote:

Can't you just lie and send out to other clients that the ship is in fact cloaked.
I'm about to do a lot of that to give hz a lot of control over how the ball works.

Indeed there is a way, but there's no way to let the client know that. All I said in the first post was that UFO is was no help, not that it couldn't be done.

Mine GO BOOM - Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:46 pm
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To let others know, if a client is toggled to be a UFO, they will never take damage, ever. This is a client side feature of the UFO and the server cannot change this.

Dr Brain - Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:01 pm
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

To let others know, if a client is toggled to be a UFO, they will never take damage, ever. This is a client side feature of the UFO and the server cannot change this.

That's not entirely true, but it's close enough to the truth to make UFO worthless for my goals.