[Mod] Adjacent building requirement

Lafiel

Walt I haven't thought about the forbidden area since I kind of expect it mostly to be internal at least on one or two sides. So my aim was just having the requirement. No not necessarily a functional requirement more like prerequisite. But it might be nice to have forbidden area checked just in case. So as a compromise only a side that does not have a forbidden area can be used (obviously) and the checking just looks for if there is actually a free side otherwise throws an error. It's logical so there shouldn't be complains unless someone else wants it otherwise.

akinata

Lafiel this is some great ideas and would be very usefull.
tho i would suggest to have the possibility for it to require all the parts listed OR one of the parts listed.
(or a number of the same part)

Lafiel

akinata Part requirement is already covered by RequiresCategories. I was actually thinking of using part ID in the [] list. I went for category to keep options open. Maybe Walt can make it so it can take both ID and category. This would solve everything. Also maybe have it understand + as an AND instead of just an OR when there's only a comma. @Walt ?

akinata

Lafiel i mean part requiring another part or multiple parts near it, around it

Lafiel

akinata That's what I meant with RequiresCategories you just have to create unique categories for the part(s) e.g. SuperBombadCannon01p1. It's misusing them as ID. It's bad because it causes confusion and bloats the number of categories. That's why it would be nice to have RequiresAdjacent able to take IDs.

Walt

I wasn't talking about prohibited areas, I was talking about using the new buff system to accomplish this. You could use buffs to enable functionality when adjacent to other parts.

Drakador_Chaos

Walt Question is, could the buff be specific to only that part or would it affect everything in proximity?
As in, "well let´s make a buff that boosts this n´that for that weapon so it´s usable" but if you put it besides another type of weapon, wouldn´t it boost that weapon aswell?

Lafiel

Walt Oops my mind went wild there. 😃 Yeah, it should only be able to be put down when the part defined in the list is already there.

Walt

Drakador_Chaos No, parts have to be specially scripted to be able to receive and be modified by a buff.

Walt

Lafiel Should that also prevent you from deleting the required part before deleting the part(s) that require it? And what happens if the required part is destroyed, should the part requiring it stop functioning?

akinata

Walt then a toggle that toggle on/off a component/all coponents from another part? or that sort of toggle thing threw the buff system? (didn't looked at the new buff system yet)

Lafiel

Walt I would say "Last In – First Out" order meaning the required part cannot be deleted before the part.
I don't want to put too much restriction and leave it up to the part designer.
Let's say the part requires a reactor adjacent then if it's destroyed the part would automatically suffer from a slight supply shortage and possibly delay.
Let's say the part requires a part with buff effect then it would just loose the buff effect. If a designer want's all buffs to be offline he could just create and require a control part with the BuffToggle (?). But if you think this doesn't work then I suppose it could automatically turn A-buffs off if the required part is a A-buff part.

Walt

akinata There's a BuffToggle component that you can use to turn stuff on/off based on buffs.