Game Logic

[BrAinOfJ]

What is a game logic? How do we use them? What do they do?

I searched the tutorials, but no one has explained them... I have literally no idea what one does, or why i should use it.
More importantly, by not knowing how to use it, i dont know what i could be doing to make my missions better by using them.

Can someone explain it, and give an example of one in use and why its used as opposed to going about the same problem a different way ?

Thanks guys

[m21man]

A game logic is an invisible, invincible unit that is sometimes used in camera scripts, or anything that requires a coordinate for a unit to move to.

[macguba]

There isn't much in the tutes you're right, but there is an excellent thread.  Use the forum search function.   It was quite a while ago.

[h-]

A game logic is an invisible, invincible unit that is sometimes used in camera scripts, or anything that requires a coordinate for a unit to move to.

Yup...

Or if you De-Pbo some of the orig. BIS 1985 campaign missions, the Game Logics are used to co-ordinate for example the radio traffic, like in 'After Montignac'... So you can actually reduce scripting with them...

And I think these are needed in MP    too...

EDIT:

There isn't much in the tutes you're right, but there is an excellent thread.  Use the forum search function.  It was quite a while ago.

I think this is the thread you're referring to...

http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=9923;start=0

[macguba]

Got it

Gamelogic thread.

The other thing you can use a game logic for is getting dead bodies out of vehicles .... put a gamelogic in instead of the deceased, which causes him to fall out.  Then remove the GL and an ordinary loon can get in instead.  Similarly you can use gamelogics to fill cargo spaces so that you can get your loons to sit in the places you want.


Edit:  duh-oh, too slow again...

[BrAinOfJ]

still a bit fuzzy....

Why is a game logic different to a trigger. to use an example above, why couldnt i have a trigger to set the units health to zero for him to fall out of a truck?

[macguba]

GLs and triggers are completely different animals.    One the differences is that a GL exists at a specific point, like an object.   A trigger never exists at point:  it either has no geographical position at all (say if the condition line was a variable) or else it covers an area.    Don't worry, it'll all clear up as you get more into OFP editing.

If you setdammage 1 a loon in a vehicle in general he will stay in the seat rather than falling out.    This may prevent another AI unit from using that seat, which is particularly annoying if it's the driver.     Putting a GL in and out of that seat clears it for the next man.    As is usually the case in OFP there are other ways of achieving the same thing.