Visibility on Turn 1

[Paul59]

Hi Richard,

I'm designing a scenario including my trusty limited visibility script from the vanilla P&S Lutzen scenario. I have used it many times in my P&S scenarios, but it does not work from the start of this scenario. During player turn 1 the whole map is visible, the limited visibility does not kick in until I end the turn and the AI has it's first turn.

Has the required code changed? Or maybe I've mucked it up some how? I can post the code here or email it to you if required.

Try emailing it. I think Pip changed the flow somewhat.

I've just moved this post over from the Beta forum, where I first raised this issue a few days ago.

I've now redesigned the scenario so that there are hills and some forest between the two armies, and I have checked that this does indeed block the line of sight by using the LOS tool on all the Roman player units. But I can still see the Spanish/Carthaginian units when the scenario starts! So this might not be a visibility script problem.

[Paul59]

To test if this is a visibility script issue, I have taken the script out. I can still see the whole battlefield and all the enemy units on turn 1. So it is nothing to do with the visibility script.

[rbodleyscott]

To test if this is a visibility script issue, I have taken the script out. I can still see the whole battlefield and all the enemy units on turn 1. So it is nothing to do with the visibility script.

The script that hides the enemy deployment in custom battles is not used in scenarios - mainly because the historical dispositions can easily be seen in a book or on wikipedia.

Try putting something like this in StartTurnPost() in your scenario script

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if (GetTurn() == 0)
  {
    SetAreaLOS(x, y, x2, y2, side, 0);
  }

to cancel the LOS on the enemy deployment area.

If you can't make that work, send me the scenario and I will have a go.