DELA actions

A-Red · Post by **A-Red** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:51 pm

For a map I'm making, I am trying to learn the DELA action. I have a bunch of wights that I want to go into suicide mode at even intervals over a specific span of time. I could script each one separately, but there are different numbers on different difficulty levels, and that would screw up the timing. I would like six wights on timid to be evenly distributed over the same amount of time as twelve wights on legendary. As far as I can tell, the DELA action is made for exactly this sort of thing.

I think I have the basic idea, but I am having some sort of issue with the delay time. I have scripted as follows:

CTRL W6 Wights Visible
Link: Wave 6 Wights
Visible Flag
Activates on Success: W6 Wights Delay Attack

DELA W6 Wights Delay Attack
Results Action: W6 Wights Suicide
Delay Time: ????
Link: Wave 6 Wights
Even Distribution Flag: true

SUIC W6 Wights Suicide
Visibility Radius: 64
Never Avoid

When I put 1 for the delay time flag, the wights all come. They all come in a lump because they are spaced over one second, but they come nonetheless. However, when I set the delay time to anything else, the first wight comes and the rest just stand still indefinitely, even when I up the speed to 16x. It doesn't seem to make any difference what time I put in, unless it's 1.

Is anyone familiar with this action? I'm sure some of the great Magma scripters must have used it before.

A-Red

A-Red · Post by **A-Red** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:10 am

I figured it out. Apparently, DELAs can only be linked to ATTAs, not to SUICs. Since the wights were not going to try to avoid the player anyway, this works fine for me.

A-Red

Phex · Post by **Phex** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:06 am

...or you could try to link it to an ACLI.

A-Red · Post by **A-Red** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:08 pm

That would be great, Phex, because then I could have them become visible separately and attack as they do so, rather than becoming visible together and attacking separately the way I have it now. How would I set that up? Would the ACLI go in "Results Action" or would I link to the ACLI and put something else in "Results Action" or what? I've been playing around with it, and I can't get it to do anything.

A-Red

Phex · Post by **Phex** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:30 pm

I also experimented a bit with the DELAs, but it seems like they were not designed to be linked to ACLIs. Bungie also does not use them very often as far as i know, so i would rather recommend you to use a TUNI with 'Difficult Equal To...' Params or something similar. A bit more actions to script, but also more options of what will happen in different difficult levels.
Or you wait for somebody who can script better than me (which shouldnt be too hard :;):).

rgds,
- Phex.

The Tain

DELA actions