Walls not working as base-expansion

TAK02

I had the brilliant idea of having the Soviet Lunar mission force the player to build differently; a mix of the Humans and Mora ("Beta") from Grey Goo.

The Tesla/Nuclear Reactor "hubs" work, no problem.

But walls don't want to work as conduits/powerlines.
All I did to the map was add

Code:

[NAWALL]
BaseNormal=yes
Adjacent=0

Anyone have any ideas? Overriding BaseNormal and Adjacent works on other buildings just fine.

Sir Prize · Medic **Joined**: 27 Mar 2020 **Location**: AKA WoRmINaToR

When placed in the game world, walls become OverlayTypes. OverlayTypes don't respect BaseNormal.

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TAK02 · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:37 pm Post subject:

Could something else work? Like firestorm tiles?

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Sir Prize · Medic **Joined**: 27 Mar 2020 **Location**: AKA WoRmINaToR

I don't know. Try it and see if it works.

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TAK02 · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:23 am Post subject:

Bump: while Wall=yes and Firestorm.Wall=yes seems to work (as in not crashing the game and actually working as you'd expect a normal wall to, no idea if Firestorm-logic would still work), it's still not respecting BaseNormal.
There's also the problem of the transparent green "halo" between wall sections not appearing at all then.

Naturally, Wall=no and Firestorm.Wall=yes makes the "wall" passable for both units and projectiles, meaning I'll have to think of something to make Firestorm wall sections still block projectiles (probably with Solid Building logic) and units (probably Impassable=yes/Passable=no, which ever exists).

EDIT: IsPassable=no doesn't work on Firestorm walls; units can still pass through. Solid Building logic seems to work on them, tho. The values just need to set explicitly.

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TAK02 · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:38 am Post subject:

Dbl-posting is fun.

Code:

[NAWALL]
BaseNormal=yes
Firestorm.Wall=yes
Wall=no
IsPassable=no
SolidLevel=0
SolidHeight=2

This results in no damaged art being shown for walls that have them,
results in my own tanks dodge around the walls instead of trying to tear them down like they usually would when using force-fire (tho AI units seem to work as player units used to; tearing walls down),
and walls still being passable like they aren't there.
Thankfully, they at least respect BaseNormal.

Seems like I'll have to make special conduits after all, or scratch the idea entirely and stick to power hubs.

Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 7:21 pm Post subject:

The old Allies Revenge 2 mod used "Firestorm" power grids for one of its sides if your looking for inspiration.

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