convoy question

Laffertytig · 09-09-11, 12:07 PM

makes it sense for it to work that way i guess. do the convoys have an element of randomness or do they spawn and travel along the same waypoints each and every time they hit a set date?

Pisces · 09-09-11, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Laffertytig

makes it sense for it to work that way i guess. do the convoys have an element of randomness or do they spawn and travel along the same waypoints each and every time they hit a set date?

It depends on how the campaign/mission designer set up the waypoints. It is possible for a waypoint to go to the next (default behavior obviously), or to fork off to a different waypoint based on a certain random probability.

Aside from that, each waypoint can have a random offset around it, within some specified radius. So you can make the track pretty unreliable if you wish.

EDIT: Have a look at this (SH4 Subschool) mission I made in the editor. It makes a single ship choose a series of waypoint which eventually determines it's traveling speed and north or south general direction. Then using the random offset it chooses a specific course to follow.

http://www.gamefront.com/files/17285..._Subschool_rar

Laffertytig · 09-09-11, 01:36 PM

very informative. i wouldnt mind knowing specifically how TMO and RSRD campaign layers are set up?

a certain amount of randomness would be nice.

Pisces · 09-09-11, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Laffertytig

very informative. i wouldnt mind knowing specifically how TMO and RSRD campaign layers are set up?

a certain amount of randomness would be nice.

Well, install the mod, then look at the files with the mission editor. Easy peasy.

Daniel Prates · 09-09-11, 03:17 PM

I must say, I like harbour-raiding a lot, so I do it often, and I have never seeen ships actually going in or out of the docks. That counts for escorts too. So either ports were empty, or with docked merchants, or with docked merchants and active patrols, or with docked merchants, docked patrols (that wont move but will shoot ya!), and active patrols.

However, I did see in a few ocasions some cargo ships nearing the port, or coming close to it. But there is no way to tell them apart from genericaly-generated single-spawned ships.

09-09-11, 12:07 PM	#1
Laffertytig Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 757 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	makes it sense for it to work that way i guess. do the convoys have an element of randomness or do they spawn and travel along the same waypoints each and every time they hit a set date?

09-09-11, 01:36 PM	#3
Laffertytig Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 757 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	very informative. i wouldnt mind knowing specifically how TMO and RSRD campaign layers are set up? a certain amount of randomness would be nice.

09-09-11, 03:17 PM	#5
Daniel Prates Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Curitiba, Brazil Posts: 938 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 0	I must say, I like harbour-raiding a lot, so I do it often, and I have never seeen ships actually going in or out of the docks. That counts for escorts too. So either ports were empty, or with docked merchants, or with docked merchants and active patrols, or with docked merchants, docked patrols (that wont move but will shoot ya!), and active patrols. However, I did see in a few ocasions some cargo ships nearing the port, or coming close to it. But there is no way to tell them apart from genericaly-generated single-spawned ships.