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[Event Tool] - Mass-Solar spawning - Remnant - 03-11-2018
There is some fun functionality with some of the spawning commands. AI can be spawned. Solars also can be spawned. I made more things.
Mass Solar Spawning (Tool)
This is untested. I am 100% sure that this program will work to the specifications of the command syntax listed below. I cannot go ingame and test it myself, however, due to lacking access to the command myself.
What is it?
There exists an (administrator only) command which can spawn solars into space, provided that you fill out the command with the proper information. This is pretty darn tedious, given everything that it requires.
What if you wanted to create a lot of objects at once? What if you wanted to completely customize an empty system with solars for an event? You'd have to type all of that out for every. single. object.
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Command syntaxTo remedy that issue, I created a little tool which aids in pulling information from the system .ini files, and converts it automatically into an Auto Hotkey script capable of spawning all of the objects in with a single key combination.
How do I use it?
Do I have anything else to say?
Yeah. I'm utter garbage at making GUIs. Forgive the really crappy file selector. I probably should have used JavaFX instead of SWING.
I'm also pretty bad at writing documentation. If this is too confusing, I'll take another pass at it later.
Where can I get this tool?
Download me!
Note that this was written in Java, so you'll need java to run it. Sorry!
If any tweaks need to be made, throw me a message, and I'll do such
Note that this was written in Java, so you'll need java to run it. Sorry!
If any tweaks need to be made, throw me a message, and I'll do such
RE: [Event Tool] - Mass-Solar spawning - Alex. - 03-11-2018
You should be able to compile a modern version of FLHook and test it out on a local server.
That said I haven't been able to find a record of this command existing - in the latest copy or anywhere in the Git history.
RE: [Event Tool] - Mass-Solar spawning - Remnant - 03-11-2018
I guarantee that it used to exist. Although as far as I'm aware, the code only exists in the version of FLHook running on this specific server. Not in the public version of FLHook.
Here's some proof from back when
It says 'unknown command' but things are definitely being spawned in. A minor bug I never got around to fixing.
If it really doesn't exist for some reason, let me know and I'll re-write the code and compile it into a plugin DLL.
RE: [Event Tool] - Mass-Solar spawning - Alley - 03-11-2018
Might as well just extend .basecreate if it's nothing but additional parameters and make it so all values at 0 apply default behavior
RE: [Event Tool] - Mass-Solar spawning - Alex. - 03-11-2018
(03-11-2018, 06:51 PM)Remnant Wrote: I guarantee that it used to exist. Although as far as I'm aware, the code only exists in the version of FLHook running on this specific server. Not in the public version of FLHook.
I checked the non-public repository too.
RE: [Event Tool] - Mass-Solar spawning - Remnant - 03-11-2018
That's definitely a reasonable idea. I suppose it's up to the people who'll actually be using the command as to what they'll want. The macro generation system is simply a StringBuilder which is appended all of the proper information. If the plugin is changed or extended, the tool is easily updated.
As for an actual update to the FLHook command, if there's something specific which would be easier, I could deal with it if @Alex. has his hands full. Although that'll be up to the people who'd actually be potentially using the functionality. (What they want, how they want it, etc.)
I dunno where it went, then. I'll just write it in from the ground up if it really doesn't exist anymore.
RE: [Event Tool] - Mass-Solar spawning - Alex. - 03-11-2018
(03-11-2018, 09:31 PM)Remnant Wrote: I dunno where it went, then. I'll just write it in from the ground up if it really doesn't exist anymore.
I checked the history of it too, there has never been an instance of 'custombasecreate'.
Only way I can think of such a thing getting onto the server is if it was:
a) in some text encoding that Git grep/log can't read, or
b) never in the repository at all, if someone decided it was a good idea to go uploading FLHook DLLs to the server without pushing the source to private first.