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 Trying to make bombs rain from the sky 
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Yeah I just noticed it doesnt work too. Seeing in other missions where bombs do rain, they also had names so I dont think you can get them to disapear.

What you could do is just give the bomb a really high or really low offset making the name not visible. I havent tested that though so unsatisfactory things might happen.


Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:04 pm
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math.random(10000)

Are you sure that you have enough width of the map?

I would first placed a bomb on a map, and only then activate it.

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function Create(self)
   self.bombVar = 1
   self.bombTime = Timer();
   self.bombingTime = Timer();
end
function Update(self)
   if self.bombVar == 1 then
      if self.bombingTime:IsPastSimMS(500) then -- set to lower number for more bombs
         self.bomb = CreateTDExplosive("Standard Bomb", "Coalition.rte");
         MovableMan:AddItem(self.bomb);
       self.bomb:IsActivated();
         self.bomb.Pos = Vector(math.random(200),-20);
         self.bombingTime:Reset();
      end
   end
   if self.bombTime:IsPastSimMS(10000) then -- set to higher number for longer bombing time
      self.bombVar = 0
      self.ToDelete = true
   end
end


Now it works.
But I do not know what function can give map width.
The program needs some work.


Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:18 pm
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First of all, Vectors work as

(X,Y)

and your giving it the scene's width as the Y value. Also as for our Inconvenience, SceneMan.SceneWidth or SceneHeight dont seem to wanna work, same thing with Scene.Width/Height.

Your better off with what Geti gave you.


Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:56 pm
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Stop using self variables when there's no need to keep them stored over updates.


Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:59 pm
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Coops9753 wrote:
First of all, Vectors work as

(X,Y)

and your giving it the scene's width as the Y value. Also as for our Inconvenience, SceneMan.SceneWidth or SceneHeight dont seem to wanna work, same thing with Scene.Width/Height.

Your better off with what Geti gave you.


Actually, Nonsequitorian's way worked. I'm using it instead of the 10000 now.

I still don't know how to get rid of the names... Should I just make the preset name a bunch of spaces?

EDIT: Actually, then the arrows would still show up...


Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:09 am
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Make them MOSRotatings or even TDExplosives that you activate when spawning them?


Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:15 am
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I've tried that already, it doesn't work.

I uploaded the weapon, if anyone can get the names to disappear that would be great.


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Also, instead of it being a TDExplosive, you could make it a MOSRotating, and make it gib into all of your bomb stuff


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self:Activate();
will activate the TDExplosive and therefore make the name disappear.


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Thanks, that worked.


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