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Is it possible to have a property in an odf change over a set period of time? (please say yes)

Yes, depending on what it is. You can use SetClassProperty() to change it ingame through the lua. Changing some things online, such as ammo counts, will crash the game.

Could I for example have the damage radius change or the push factor change over a period of time. From like push to pull or something like that.

No, you can have a lua timer or event and then change the ODF value when that timer finishes or the event is triggered.

I'm sorry, I am trying to advance in my knowledge of scripting, so I'm trying to understand this whole thing. So, you're saying I have an odf. A timer ticks down and then a value changes. Right? How do you set this up in your odf. I think this could be very helpfull for some of the new things I'm trying to do. Such as (I'm sorry Teancum) force telekinesis. Or other things. It isn't limited to that, there are other things too.

read the battlefront2_scripting_system doc in the documentation folder. This will help you getting an wider overview over all the battlefront 2 lua functions for finding out what u need.

woner11 wrote:I'm sorry, I am trying to advance in my knowledge of scripting, so I'm trying to understand this whole thing. So, you're saying I have an odf. A timer ticks down and then a value changes. Right? How do you set this up in your odf. I think this could be very helpfull for some of the new things I'm trying to do. Such as (I'm sorry Teancum) force telekinesis. Or other things. It isn't limited to that, there are other things too.

Sounds like you've got a couple problems right off the bat. If I've inferred correctly, you want to make a weapon that does push-pull-push-pull ad infinitum to do a sort've hackjob "levitate" power. It's an interesting concept but I don't think you can pull it off for a couple reasons.

1) You can't have multiple (or more than 2, specifically) push (or pull) effects per attack. Once you press a button to do a force push-type power, it deploys one ordnance (or two if you have a secondary ordnance) instantaneously. I'm pretty positive there's no good workaround 'cause I've played with this a lot. I wanted to make a "force whirlwind" (a la KotOR) power, which would lift the enemy up and the best I could come up with was a primary push and secondary pull, which lifts the enemy up but it only lasts for a fraction of a second.

2) Even if you could get enough pushes/pulls triggered, to constantly switch between the two to create the effect you want would require microtimers (timers lasting only a fraction of a second), which I believe is something the timers in .lua were not designed for.

Is it then possible to have more than two ordances?

That's what I just answered. Not as far as I know.

This may seem unrelated, but it is. I have one quick question: What does SecondaryOrdnancePeriod = 1 mean, and what would happen if I increase the value or decrease it? If this is documented somewhere please let me know.

Damage and laser color can be changed over the duration of a laser's travel. Like it starts out as green laser that does 500 damage, and ends up as a red laser with 150 damage after it's travelled for a while.

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