zones movement with sty+ct

[AI Teâm]

well for example if you have the following code in your map:

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<Zone effect="fortress">
					<ShapeCircle radius="27" growth="0">
						<Point x="864" y="-688"/>
					</ShapeCircle>

how can i make the fort zone move??
do i only need to put something like that in there:

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<speed along x="6" y="-6" />

or is there any other possibility??

[ed]

You can't make a zone which has been created by the map move. You can only make zones move that have been spawned by a command.
If we take a look at the moving zones map on flower power as an example...
The zones are spawned at the start of the round with

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    print("spawn_zone n north fortress none 0 " . $zone_pos . " " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	print("spawn_zone n north fortress none 0 " . $zone_pos . " " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	print("spawn_zone n north fortress none 0 " . $zone_pos . " " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	//south sumo zones
	print("spawn_zone n south fortress none 0 -" . $zone_pos . " " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	print("spawn_zone n south fortress none 0 -" . $zone_pos . " " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	print("spawn_zone n south fortress none 0 -" . $zone_pos . " " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	//east sumo zones
	print("spawn_zone n east fortress none " . $zone_pos . " 0 " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	print("spawn_zone n east fortress none " . $zone_pos . " 0 " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	print("spawn_zone n east fortress none " . $zone_pos . " 0 " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	//west sumo zones
	print("spawn_zone n west fortress none -" . $zone_pos . " 0 " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	print("spawn_zone n west fortress none -" . $zone_pos . " 0 " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");
	print("spawn_zone n west fortress none -" . $zone_pos . " 0 " . $zone_size . " " . $growth . " 0 0 false\n");

the script later sends the following command to start the zones on their journey to the centre of the map...

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			    print("CENTER_MESSAGE The Zones are Moving!...\n");
				print("set_zone_position north 0 -2.5 0 -100 0 -100\n");
				print("set_zone_position south 0 2.5 0 100 0 100\n");
				print("set_zone_position east -2.5 0 -100 0 -100 0\n");
				print("set_zone_position west 2.5 0 100 0 100 0\n");

it seems it's not well documented in the ct wiki.
Have a look at the flower sumo script here for example of its use.

Brief explanation...

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spawn_zone n north fortress

the zone is spawned. If the first argument after spawn_zone is n it means we are giving the zone a name, you can give multiple zones the same name (as we've done here) so we can effect multiple zones with a single command. As we do next..

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set_zone_position north 0 -2.5 0 -100 0 -100

this command tells the server we want to start moving the position of all zones with the name "north". 0 -2.5 is the speed vector at which we move the zone. "0 -100" is the coordinates we wish to move the zone to. If we give the server two identical coordinates (as we have here) it means we want the zones to stop at that point.

Or, a simpler way (I've just remembered) is to spawn a moving zone. Something like...

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SPAWN_ZONE death 450 250 40 0 -10 0 true

Have a look at that ct wiki, spawn_zone is fairly well documented.

Have fun

[AI Teâm]

i know the SPAWN_ZONE method , but the thing you showed me i need PHP and atm my PHP sucks , but maybe i can arrange it
ty for your fast help

[kyle]

convert it to python

[AI Teâm]

hm ??
i dont get the point?!

[sinewav]

hm ??
i dont get the point?!

I think kyle is saying you can convert the script to a language you understand better. But I suspect you aren't fluent in any programing language, isn't that right? I thought I remember you saying such. Maybe soon you will find someone to help you with your project.

[AI Teâm]

i dont know any programming language , but im learning PHp atm

[Ratchet]

interesting. how would you go about converting it to python? tron hacks work in python too? wicked.

[compguygene]

/me has a little bit of python skillz...but trying to learn php..

I am interested in the answer to this question as well. I would love to implement a few servers with python.

[kyle]

the tron hacks are in the code (c++)

the script is just reading the ladderlog.txt file and doing stuff based on that.

instead of just running the server you run it like

tail -f /path/to/ladderlog.txt | parser | path/to/armagetron-dedicated

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import sys, re
while 1:
    line = sys.stdin.readline()
    if re.match("^GAME_TIME", line):
        keywords = line.split()
        game_time=int(keywords[1])
        if( game_time == -1):
             sys.stdout.write("Spawn_zone bla bla bla")
             sys.stdout.flush()

something like that for a very simple script to spawn a zone at the start of a round
of course you need to set the settings LADDERLOG_GAME_TIME_INTERVAL 1 and LADDELOG_WRITE_GAME_TIME 1