entityBoolModifier "PhaseOut"

Has an interesting graphical effect of making the model partially transparent, this is how the Vasari scout (Jikara Navigator) fades out when the ability is run.

I don't know much about these modifiers yet and how thet work so any suggestions are welcome.

I need to know if there is any way to actually make a ship cloak and not be detectable by other races besides a simple invisible effect.

Wait... why would cloaking be good? The game seems to be focused on war... as in, booms and explosions and PEW PEW PEW, not a cloak and hide. Also, what ships are we applying it to? Light ships like scouts and cobalts I can understand, but capitals are bad. Maybe the marauder capitals, but please don't give the Kol Battleship cloaking. PLEASE don't give the Kol cloaking.

I'm not sure if anyone ever played Earth 2150/The Moon Project. I was taking my idea of cloaking from that game. Basically one race could cloak, either by having a special module on the individual units, or having structures in their base which allowed for it. Of course appropriate research must take place first. The effect would be a radius type effect (so it applies the cloak to itself/around it within a certain range)

Earth 2150 was a ground based RTS and not so open as sins is. Currently I'm not sure if the idea would work all that well in sins as far as being able to cloak everything goes. It's just something to experiment with.

Combat would still be heavy, the idea wouldn't be to hide and not attack. You could attack, while being completely invisible. . Of course there would be researchable counters to the cloak ability, such as radar stations or a radar type ability that could be permanently applied to certain ships, and therefore canceling out the cloak.

This is just a rough idea, it may not even be practical.

i think i remember something about, an ignore code to make the AI ignore the object

This is probably a really late reply lol, but i think the star trek mod actually had a clingon ship cloaked.

 

Yes, the D-12 klink scout had the ability to "Cloak" however its mostly a cosmetic cloak rather than full undectability

anyone still in there?

If there is, my suggestion is to make your own ability based on the 'PhaseOut' ability. Call it 'Cloak' or something like that, and then it's likely that it'll work. If not, then cosmetic is the only way to go.

EDIT: if anyone's still lookin' at this thread, I think if you look at the buff file, and remove certain modifiers, it MIGHT work.

These are the modifiers for the Vasari Scout's 'Phasic Cloaking' abiltiy-

numEntityBoolModifiers 7
entityBoolModifier "CannotBeDamaged"
entityBoolModifier "DisablePhaseJump"
entityBoolModifier "DisableLinearEngines"
entityBoolModifier "DisableAngularEngines"
entityBoolModifier "DisableRegeneration"
entityBoolModifier "DisableWeapons"
entityBoolModifier "PhaseOut"

The ones you want to remove are the 'DisableLinearEngines' and 'DisableAngularEngines'. You probably won't need to jump it while it's cloaked, so that's up to you to remove that one.