TB's Coordinate Based Safe Zones v1.5 addon

For a long time now, I have been thinking: "Why isn't this building safe from an emission?" and after much trial and error, I have a functional solution!

During an emission or a psy-storm, this script checks to see if the player is within the bounds of the given coordinates (set per level) and appropriately switches on the "I'm standing in a safe place" flag, allowing you to now take shelter in the following locations:

• All the apartment blocks in Dead City
• The two undamaged halves of two damaged apartment blocks
• Several of the houses in Dead City plus their cellars
• The supermarket and the garage type building in Dead City
• The two bunker huts in Great Swamps
• The shop near the electro anomalies in The Meadow
• The flooded basement in the office building in The Meadow
• All three downstairs rooms in the Kopachy building in Jupiter
• The underground room at the Substation in Jupiter
• The undamaged part of the farmhouse at the Sawmill in Zaton
• The cabin at the Dock Cranes in Zaton (The door is now unlocked!)

Added in v1.2:

• Extended the Duty HQ bunk beds cover area in Rostok
• Also, the locker room in the Duty HQ
• The ground floor of the tall tower in Rostok
• The western apartments in Pripyat leading to Jupiter
• The eastern apartments in Pripyat leading to The Outskirts
• Both southwestern and southeastern subways in Pripyat
• A ground floor room in a building east of a crashed helicopter in Pripyat
• Most of the Hotel interior in Pripyat
• Both west and east stages in the Theater in The Outskirts
• A green work cabin to the south in The Outskirts
• Under the west and east staircases in the Kindergarten in The Outskirts
• The high-up main apartment room next to the Vine Anomaly in the Outskirts

Added in v1.5:

• Some parts of the three buildings around the Jupiter Plant
• The building south of the Industrial Complex in Dark Valley
• The cabin in the middle of Dark Valley
• Extended coverage in the underground area near Jupiter Underground entrance
• The laundry room with all the washing machines in The Outskirts
• The room next to Strelok's room and the corridor leading to them
• Extended coverage in the tunnel leading to the lab in Radar

I have included an edited version of zat_b22_medic_door.ltx changing the "@locked" to "@closed".

NOTE: The Meadow shop and flooded basement are built at an angle in the game, and my maths isn't yet good enough to calculate rotated rectangles, so stay in the middle of these places, and you will be okay! See bottom of description for How does it work?

Please feel free to suggest any other places that should be considered a safe shelter!

The script will also place a PDA map icon on all the new safe locations, and also all the default locations. The game will still highlight the nearest default shelter, but without editing the emission/psy-storm scripts, I thought best to have it so that All the safe locations are shown instead. (Why not?)

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Changelog

V1.5

Added some new locations. (detailed above)

Changed the way the tiny cube objects (used for the map icons) are added and removed from the world. This is so people can remove the addon without having to run a script in debug mode.

The objects are now added when an emission/psy-storm starts and are removed when the storm is over.

As long as the game is saved while there is not a storm occurring, then this addon can be removed.

V1.4

Added a function for using the sleeping bag in these calculated shelters. Unfortunately, the message still shows "A safer place is needed to sleep" / "Необходимо безопасное место для сна", however, one second after this happens the sleep menu will appear, and the screen text will read "Sleep" / "Спать".

It's not perfect, but it seems to work for now.

Thanks to Cr3pis for the quick bug report! It looks like the callback function that I am using "physic_object_on_use_callback(obj, who)" is a bit buggy and sometimes doesn't return the "who" variable (as NIL or anything), but as long as I don't reference the "who", then it should be okay.

Again, this is not an ideal solution, but hopefully I can code up a better one!

Please comment if this causes a crash, thanks!

V1.3

Small update to make sure that the script checks if the player is already underground and appropriately unsets the flag, after an emission/psy-storm, if not underground.
This was clashing with my RF Receiver Hidden Packages addon.

V1.2

Added a bunch of locations in Rostok, Pripyat and The Outskirts. These are listed above in the description.

V1.1

Added a script to remove all the "Tiny Cube" models from the game (which are used for the PDA map icons), so that this addon can be removed.

To do this:

• Press your console key (this varies for different keyboards, it is usually to the left of the "1" key, above the "Tab" key)
• Type in (without quotes) "run_script tb_remove_the_tiny_cubes"
• Then save your game, quit the game and remove this addon.

How does it work?

For each set of coordinates, I have taken the lowest north-western point of an area (Point A), and the highest southeastern point of the area (Point B), as accurately as possible.

During the emission or psy-storm, the script will check the level name and checks if the player is within any of the sets of coordinates by iterating through each coordinate set doing some basic maths:

(Checking to see if the player is higher than Point A's Y is not required, unless they manage to fall out of the level I guess?)

This then is considered safe, and the script actually sets the flag to tell the game the player is underground (very sneaky), so that the default script that checks to see if the player is in shelter is skipped... until the player goes outside the safety area.

Because the PDA map icons require an object to mark, this script will once-only add several tiny cube models to where a map icon is needed. I found the small_cube.ogf in meshes\dynamics\equipments which is conveniently highly appropriate for this!

Also, the AI NPCs are unaware of these locations, that is a whole new coding level for the future!

Please let me know as soon as you are able if there are any problems and I will do my best to help!

Happy hiding Stalkers!