Hey folks. Sorry if this is the wrong section for this, but hopefully fellow lua scripters can benefit from it.
I've been following Cortex Command for a while, and I'm really excited by the new release. So I made a custom campaign level.

It's an assault map. You have five lives and must attempt a daring one-man attack on a heavily-guarded fort. Destroy their brain to secure victory for the Coalition!

Of note to scripters:
* Player is deployed by drop pod
* Auto-switch to active character
* Life counter
* Enemy reinforcements trigger
* Victory/Defeat conditions
* Random weapon selection

If anyone figures out how to set the player's funds, lemme know. For now, don't buy anything. EDIT: Solved!

Feel free to use any portion of this script in your own projects.

Have fun playing, and happy modding!

ActivityMan:GetActivity():SetTeamFunds(2500,0)

Might be of interest to you.

2500 is the money, 0 is the team.

Only problem I had was when I accidentally switched to the brain when my guy was dropped off, he shot at the rocket and got himself killed. Other then that it was awesome.

Awesome! New version uploaded.


Yeah, the rocket is set to neutral so the player can't take control of it and blow themself up. The downside is that the AI considers it hostile.
The rocket also has a tendency to fail horribly at landing sometimes, but that seems to be a general feature of the rocket.

I would move this to Scenes, but it appears you are meaning it somewhat as a resource for other people to learn some lua from. So here is fine.

THis post is just to alert people that lua-driven scenes are still scenes, and go over there, this section is for discussion and whathaveyou.

The AI refuses to defend themselves against me.

Scratch that, they do after the first few seconds.

This is really cool, and sets a good example for people trying to figure out how to script. The only problem here is that sometimes the enemy actors just sit there without attacking while you're right in front of them.

Looks like we won't have very vicious defenders until we get an AI upgrade. At the moment they're using sentry mode, which is essentially "Stand still and shoot stuff when you see it." It works well when your enemies are just as stupid, i.e. Brain Hunt which is "Move toward the brain and shoot stuff when you see it," but it doesn't fare well against a player.

That being said, this is awesome. You included diggers in the weapons table though. It looks normal until you see them running around point their diggers at you. Also, shotgun; most accurate weapon in the game? It's more likely than you think.

this works very very well, especially for the first released user-made mission. I quite enjoy it. Even playing through it with mods loaded is fun and challenging.

This is great.
If you want to absolutely restrict the users ability to buy stuff I suggest making the funds -9000 or something because you can still dig.
EDIT: I was wondering, what is the concrete sprayer for?

For actor burying of course.
Now I'm a Lua newb, but is it possible to grab the entire list of weapons available in the buy menu for use in the random select for enemies? For some mods it wouldn't work too well (DSTech), but for DarkStorm and Kloveska it would add some nice variety.

Its for closing the reinforcement path to the enemy landing pad and for barricades that will protect you when you engage the third dreadnought in the lowest level.

Good layout, I love this map and I got through only on the second try since I kept screwing up and the dreadnoughts were overkill in those closed modules.


Also giant thanks for some nice scripting examples, I see its possible to create a deathmatch mode and quite alot of other things out of this really easy.

I just thought of something. Gotcha!'s Mario map can finally be completed. With Doombas and happy highscore at the end.

Very fun map, played through it twice, please make more, also, the first two enemys you can see. Above the door and in the window don't appear to attack or "scan" like the others do.

For some reason, it doesn't work. No scripts activate.