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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000118 | FSSCP | gameplay | public | 2004-03-01 00:03 | 2005-09-16 03:26 |
| Reporter | diamondgeezer | Assigned To | taylor | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 0000118: Alpha Wing doesn't depart in to fighterbay properly | ||||
| Description | http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21138 I can only imagine this occours because the other fighters are waiting for Alpha 1 to depart first or something: When the departure SEXP fires, the reast of Alph aWing race off towards the destroyer, but then stop dead a few km from the ship and from each other. A purely AI wing will simply fly in to the fighterbay and disappear as you'd expect. I've tried setting Alpha to be lead by Alpha 2 instead of me, but it doesn't make a difference. | ||||
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Does this happen in retail FS2? |
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Also could you upload a mission that allows us to see this bug ourselves. |
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2004-03-05 19:47
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Yes, it does happen in retail FS2 and yes, I can upload a smaple mission. |
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Same here. |
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Are there any FS2 standard missions that fixing this might affect? |
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Well no, cos in the V campaign Alpha never departs in to the hanger bay - they always jump out |
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Ugh. Bug in my fighterbay code, prolly. I'll take a look. |
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resolution? can a workaround be using the end-mission sexp? |
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I still haven't had time to look at this. Be patient. ;) |
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Interesting. This doesn't exclusively affect Alpha wing. It affects whichever wing is the first in the squadron, whether or not the player is in it. |
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Okay, that particular bug has been fixed. A rare instance of a very helpful bug... it allowed the cause of this bug to be identified. ;) This bug is triggered when a wing which has "form on wing" as an active goal is cued to depart. The wing leader will depart properly, but the rest of the wing will go and hide behind the capital ship. The question of how to fix it is: Should the "form on wing" goal be removed when a ship is cued to depart, or should the formation code be modified to allow for departure? I'm leaning toward the first option, but before I change anything I want to know why "form on wing" causes the ships to behave in this way. edited on: 08-31-05 03:46 |
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Taylor, you bring up an interesting point: I hadn't thought about just making the entire wing depart "in formation". It sounds like that would require more effort than it's worth, though, and the quick fix is better in this case. |
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Yeah the formation thing does seem a bit much. It would need extra testing too in order to make sure that the orders to keep in formation don't adversely affect the path needed to depart or the break-and-attack senario. I'll go ahead and make them just break out of formation when told to depart as a wing. Give it a look when it hits CVS just to make sure it's still in line with what you were thinking. |
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Hm. It wasn't what I was thinking*, but it looks like it'll work the same way and handle the same set of circumstances. If this works then we can resolve this. :) *I was thinking about putting a statement at the beginning of mission_do_departure to always exit formation mode, but it looks like the statement in ai_formation is where :v: intended it to go; and it looks like that statement accounts for all possibilities anyway. |
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I hadn't done it this way at first but it just seemed to work better and it's a pretty small change. And like you said, it just fits well there with how :v: had it all set up. It handled all of my tests to I'll go ahead and resolved it but I'm sure someone will reopen if it comes back. |
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Fixered. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2004-03-01 00:03 | diamondgeezer | New Issue | |
| 2004-03-03 20:52 | RandomTiger | Note Added: 0000259 | |
| 2004-03-04 20:30 | RandomTiger | Note Added: 0000273 | |
| 2004-03-05 19:47 | diamondgeezer | File Added: Untitled.fs2 | |
| 2004-03-05 19:47 | diamondgeezer | Note Added: 0000309 | |
| 2004-03-07 13:02 | Lightspeed | Note Added: 0000361 | |
| 2004-03-15 20:12 | RandomTiger | Note Added: 0000461 | |
| 2004-03-15 20:58 | diamondgeezer | Note Added: 0000462 | |
| 2004-03-21 22:17 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0000524 | |
| 2004-03-21 22:17 | Goober5000 | Assigned To | => Goober5000 |
| 2004-03-21 22:17 | Goober5000 | Status | new => assigned |
| 2005-04-14 03:24 | phreak | Note Added: 0002134 | |
| 2005-04-14 05:18 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0002135 | |
| 2005-05-25 02:52 | Goober5000 | Description Updated | |
| 2005-08-31 05:56 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0003230 | |
| 2005-08-31 07:29 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0003231 | |
| 2005-08-31 07:32 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0003231 | |
| 2005-08-31 07:44 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0003231 | |
| 2005-08-31 07:44 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0003231 | |
| 2005-08-31 07:44 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0003231 | |
| 2005-08-31 07:45 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0003231 | |
| 2005-08-31 07:46 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0003231 | |
| 2005-09-16 01:42 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0003378 | |
| 2005-09-16 02:07 | taylor | Note Added: 0003379 | |
| 2005-09-16 02:52 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0003381 | |
| 2005-09-16 03:26 | taylor | Note Added: 0003382 | |
| 2005-09-16 03:26 | taylor | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2005-09-16 03:26 | taylor | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2005-09-16 03:26 | taylor | Assigned To | Goober5000 => taylor |
| 2005-09-16 03:26 | taylor | Note Added: 0003383 |
