Skybox Checker

[Jeff]

This code was origionally from marble blast emerald, and then went into old dead Project Revolution.

It checks to see if a skybox is missing. Simple as that.

To use:

echo(levelSkyWorks("path_to_file.mis"));

Will return 1 or 0, one obviously being yes, a skybox exists.

function levelSkyWorks(%file) {
  %fo = new FileObject();
  %sky = "";
  if (%fo.openForRead(%file)) {
     while (!%fo.isEOF()) {
        %line = %fo.readLine();
        %line = trim(%line);
        if (strStr(%line, "materialList = \"") != -1) { //Here we have it!
           %sky = getSubStr(%line, 16, strLen(%line)); //Getting a little tricky...
           %sky = getSubStr(%sky, 0, (strLen(%sky) - 2));
           break;
        }
     }
     %fo.close();
  }
  if (isFile(expandFilename(%sky))) {
     %skyIsOk = true;
  }
  %fo.delete();
  return %skyIsOk;
}

Enjoy

[Trace]

Any chance you could add an option to it to modify the skybox to a default one if the the skybox is not found?

[Aayrl]

To extend on Trace's concept, it's possible to simply read through the skybox directory and generate an array of all of the possible skyboxes. I'm curious if you could randomly assign a skybox from this array each time you load a mission.

~Aayrl

[Jeff]

^ has already been done in PR I believe. I know I coded that a while ago. Easy as eating a slice of pie with whipped cream.

[CyberFox]

i actually did something similar with my MatrixMaze levels:
$skybox_url = getrandom(4);
if ( $skybox_url == 0 ){
    $skybox_url = "~/data/skies/intermediate/intermediate_Sky.dml";
    $sun_1 = "0.531491 -0.606518 -0.591314";
    $sun_2 = "1.000000 0.900000 0.200000 1.000000";
    $sun_3 = "0.300000 0.300000 0.240000 1.000000";
}
else if ( $skybox_url == 1 ){
    $skybox_url = "~/data/skies/beginner/beginner_Sky.dml";
    $sun_1 = "-0.444514 0.746881 -0.494547";
    $sun_2 = "1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000";
    $sun_3 = "0.300000 0.300000 0.300000 1.000000";
}
else if ( $skybox_url == 2 ){
    $skybox_url = "~/data/skies/expert/expert_Sky.dml";
    $sun_1 = "0.444514 -0.746881 -0.494547";
    $sun_2 = "0.600000 0.600000 0.600000 1.000000";
    $sun_3 = "0.300000 0.300000 0.450000 1.000000";
}
else if ( $skybox_url == 3 ){
    $skybox_url = "~/data/skies/advanced/advanced_Sky.dml";
    $sun_1 = "-0.668065 -0.506593 -0.545026";
    $sun_2 = "1.600000 1.600000 1.600000 1.000000";
    $sun_3 = "0.400000 0.400000 0.400000 1.000000";
}
else{
    $skybox_url = "~/data/skies/bonus/bonus_Sky.dml";
    $sun_1 = "-0.00945897 -0.68078 -0.732427";
    $sun_2 = "0.600000 0.600000 0.250000 1.000000";
    $sun_3 = "0.400000 0.400000 0.300000 1.000000";
}

You could lots of fun shizzle to make you levels a less repetitive.

Use altcode 0160 to make a non breaking space or write   the other is just bad style...

[Aayrl]

Perfect, Cyberfox. I was on a work machine at the time and did not have the opportunity to write one up myself - figured someone had it already and could toss it in the MBDK for anyone that was looking for the functionality.

~Aayrl

[Jeff]

nice one CF