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Lua Posture - 2/13/2016 2:52:02 PM

ParachuteProne

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I would like to have a random chance that the posture of one side can change towards the other side. (With no warning to the player except for his own posture changes))
Say a check every hour of game time and there is a random chance that posture improves or gets worse.
I haven't done much with Lua. I've checked the documentation and found how to change posture but am not sure how to do it using random events.
Could someone tell me how to write the script for this ?

Thanks
Mark

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RE: Lua Posture - 2/13/2016 10:29:06 PM

Rory Noonan

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I don't think timers are easily scripted using Lua. So, for a random time use a random time trigger, for a timer use a 'unit remains in area' trigger.

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RE: Lua Posture - 2/14/2016 11:40:33 AM

ParachuteProne

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quote:

ORIGINAL: apache85

I don't think timers are easily scripted using Lua. So, for a random time use a random time trigger, for a timer use a 'unit remains in area' trigger.

Ok. Thanks for the info !

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RE: Lua Posture - 2/14/2016 2:16:28 PM

Aivlis

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Don't quote me on this, because I haven't tried it, but if reference points anchored on a unit teleport with it (big IF), you can in theory teleport a couple of them to form a sort-of-random zone on the other side of the planet that a unit from your "Logic tools" side will cross at some point during a patrol routine, thus giving you a pseudorandom timer.

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RE: Lua Posture - 2/14/2016 4:57:34 PM

VFA41_Lion

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You could place multiple (invisible to the player) zones in front of your units regularly patrolled pathways and use the 'unit enters area' or 'unit leaves area' triggers and set the event to repeatable. That way with 'unit remains in zone' wouldn't continuously be checking.

I think thats how it works. Depends on how frequently you want it checking, I guess.

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RE: Lua Posture - 2/15/2016 1:20:02 PM

ParachuteProne

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I'll give these ideas a try. Thanks

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