Disappearing Wreckage

[Flashy]

I wanted to see what happens if you create a wreckage and set the celltype on it to cellDozedArea. The wreckage disappeared. Doing this is possible in an endless loop. Does anyone know what exactly a wreckage is? is it a celltype? a tile? a unit? and why did it disappear?

[evecolonycamander]

if i remember correctly it is a giga(last option in the mapper for unit placement) unit. so as a result it would fall in to the same category as mines and fumaroles



sorry if i misspelled anything. spell check is not recognizing the words that i know are incorrect

[Moley]

one: I didn't see any spelling problems... not saying much but...
Two: the "Wreckage" is a cell type... i don't know witch one... as it the "North Cliff"
Three: the actual picture is a mask(?) that you put down on the map... like the PICTURE of the cliff

[Sirbomber]

Are we talking about wreckage tiles placed on the map, or the wreckage flag that marks where you need to bring a Cargo Truck to?

ECC:  You're thinking of "Gaia" not "Giga".

Moley: You really don't understand how maps work, do you?

[Flashy]

We're talking about whatever TethysGame::CreateWreck creates. The thing that gets deleted(?) when the celltype is set to cellDozedArea

[Hooman]

Wreckage is a unit. Creating wreckage should not (as far as I can tell) change the cell type of the tile where it is placed. The code that detects wreckage, as far as I remember it, has a bug in it where it can fail to detect the wreckage unit depending on the cell type.

So changing the cell type doesn't delete the wreckage, it just makes it invisible due to the detection bug. You can probably set it just once, either before or after placing the wreckage to hide it (or reveal it).
 

[Flashy]

Is it possible that creating a wreckage over another wreckage deletes the old one? Because after 500 marks of createwreckage and setcelltype in aiproc, the game still didn't crash, but the "wrechage discovered!2 messages got annoying.

[Sirbomber]

Why don't you find out for yourself?  Bring a few Cargo Trucks to the location and see what happens.

[Flashy]

Nothing happens if they're there before the new wreckage gets created. when the second wreckage is created, they can load it.

[Moley]

to defend myself...
i know how maps work, i just haven't used wreckage, so in my futile attempt to help him/her solve his/her own problem, i just put out what i though i knew...

[Sirbomber]

It wasn't so much that you weren't helpful so much as... Well, maps are made up of tiles, not "pictures".  To hear you talk about "wreckage pictures" and "cliff pictures" was somehow painful.