Hi, all!
Just a simple one today: For whatever reason, I just felt like creating Deadman. I have no idea why, but I did. So naturally, I gave him a melee with Possession as his only power...and nothing. I had hoped it would simply make him turn on another character, but nothing would happen.
So because I know the "Beautiful" attribute works, I gave him a melee attack with Hypnosis as the outcome...same thing. The target character was never hypnotized.
Sooooo...the question. Any way to script that, or are those cases where the character has to be manually controlled?
Thanks in advance for any answers!
Those should work just fine. What magnitude did you give them?
Hey, Benton.
Well, since it's Deadman's only power, I gave it a high magnitude...that's what was odd. Absolutely nothing would happen, and I tried a variety of characters. The oddest part is that I kinda faked it when I made the melee effect "Rage," but that wasn't quite what I needed because the character would still try to attack Deadman.
Huh. Have to admit, I'm stumped. I don't play too many characters who use those powers...actually, Deadman's the only one I've ever tried. But I've thought about making Jericho as well, so I guess if this can get figured out, I'd like to.
Both my Deadman and my Jericho work just fine with that power. I don't get it. He's a herofile, right? If he's built in, you could check the melee power's range, as if it somehow ended up as 0 to 0, it wouldn't work. I've had that happen before. Other than that, I'm not sure.
I think Elijah means the characters, when they are controlled by the computer, fail to use those powers effectively.
I know it was a problem that was actually addressed.. regarding hypnosis, anyway.
In the ffxcustom.py file (located at ffx3/missions/scripts), you would need to go to the bottom and manually put in something similar to this
["deadman","hypnosis","hypnosis","all"],
with "deadman" being your custom character's exact name.
FFX treats it like a carrier type of attack and allows it to work with either projectile, beam or even cone attacks. (Not direct).
I don't know if there's a similar 'fix' for possession, though.