Is it possible to have ships not pass over land?

[Nicant]

Is there anyway to make the ships not pass over land? Is there any PRPL commands to make it happen? Because i am making a map which involves ships not going past land. Any help will be appreciated. :)

[TheWife]

I second that. I had an idea for a map earlier I pushed away due to the fact ships can fly over anything.
We have different kinds of struc already, so maybe an EMP type? :D

[chwooly]

You could always do a map that where the land starts on an edge, The ships won't fly over land if there isn't open space for it to go to.

[Sorrontis]

That's a good way to do it.

[TheWife]

Not when you want a labyrinth. :P

[GoodMorning]

Well, you could PRPL a script to move with a ship bridge and blow it up if the Core hits a land tile...

[Nicant]

Well, you could PRPL a script to move with a ship bridge and blow it up if the Core hits a land tile...

I think that is what i am going to do! I will have different terrain in the middle of the "walls". Now the question is, how do i make it without using the reference?
I have already looked at some of Planet Fall's scripts, but that just makes me more lost.

[GoodMorning]

Get unit coords, GetLand if <-UID DestroyUnit endif

The first part I do not recall the command for, but that should be obvious from one of planetfall's scripts. Or you could use PixelToCell.

[Sorrontis]

I would also advise you to do every 2 frames instead of every frame. You'll see an increase in performance without affecting gameplay significantly. This is really relevant when you're doing this with a full fleet.

[Nicant]

Ok, thanks everyone! I will try it tomorrow when i have more time! :)

[Xeneonic]

Ok, thanks everyone! I will try it tomorrow when i have more time! :)

Alternatively you could consider a feature similar to Mission 15 of the story, where the planet has a big "particle shield" around it's land. You could give the particles that create the shield the same value as the ones that spawn at the _end_ of Mission 16, those particles kill everything they touch really, really fast.

This would also be a great visual cue to the player that it's a dangerous area and you could make an objective too like on Mission 15 where bringing down a building takes out the shield (Or keep it on permanently).