#9
by The Trivial Psychic
You say in that post, that you fixed the bug in the 1018 build, but that's the build I'm using. Did you update the 1018 build AFTER posting it?
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OK. Just incase there was some sort of corruption in the download, I grabbed it a second time and re-extracted FRED. I then created a basic mission, saved it, and started in the the argument events. I've had no crashes, but the error message I'm getting is somewhat puzzling. I'm attempting to recreate a training simulation, where all ships have a guardian flag, and if any ship's hull strength gets below 5%, it becomes invulnerable, protected, its primary dammage is repaired, and it is ordered to warpout. By primary dammage, I mean hull, engines, and communications. Now, in an event using arguments, I replace any entry that would normally be filled by a ship, with <argument>. Since the game doesn't have a specific ship to reference, it doesn't know what subsystems may be on that ship, so the only option other than <argument> in the second line of the repair-subsystem sexp, is hull, which is common to models. For engines and comm., I add them manually, just as the list of ships in the initial arguments list. Unfortunately, when I save, it tells me that there is an error in this event, and that "Hull" is the error. What's up with that? How can "Hull" be an error but "engines" isn't? I can see 3 possibilities:
1 ) there are a few kinks to be worked out
2 ) I'm trying to do something ouside what the arguments option is capable of
3 ) I don't have enough knowledge of what I'm doing to understand it, like trying to navigate through a glacier in a blizzard, using infrared glasses.
Can someone put me in the right?
While I'm here, I'd like to make a SEXP request... repair-all-dammage. When used, it repairs all dammage to any subsystem, submodel, and of course the hull, of the selected ship. Since there are no specifics, said sexp could allow multiple entries for ships, wings, and of course, the <argument> option.
Later!
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