Skybox Checker

This code was origionally from marble blast emerald, and then went into old dead Project Revolution.

It checks to see if a skybox is missing. Simple as that.

To use:

echo(levelSkyWorks(path_to_file.mis));

Will return 1 or 0, one obviously being yes, a skybox exists.

Code:function levelSkyWorks(%file) {
%fo = new FileObject();
%sky = ;
if (%fo.openForRead(%file)) {
while (!%fo.isEOF()) {
%line = %fo.readLine();
%line = trim(%line);
if (strStr(%line, materialList = \) != -1) { //Here we have it!
%sky = getSubStr(%line, 16, strLen(%line)); //Getting a little tricky...
%sky = getSubStr(%sky, 0, (strLen(%sky) - 2));
break;
}
}
%fo.close();
}
if (isFile(expandFilename(%sky))) {
%skyIsOk = true;
}
%fo.delete();
return %skyIsOk;
}

Enjoy

Any chance you could add an option to it to modify the skybox to a default one if the the skybox is not found?

To extend on Trace's concept, it's possible to simply read through the skybox directory and generate an array of all of the possible skyboxes. I'm curious if you could randomly assign a skybox from this array each time you load a mission.

~Aayrl

^ has already been done in PR I believe. I know I coded that a while ago. Easy as eating a slice of pie with whipped cream.

i actually did something similar with my MatrixMaze levels:
Code:$skybox_url = getrandom(4);
if ( $skybox_url == 0 ){
    $skybox_url = ~/data/skies/intermediate/intermediate_Sky.dml;
    $sun_1 = 0.531491 -0.606518 -0.591314;
    $sun_2 = 1.000000 0.900000 0.200000 1.000000;
    $sun_3 = 0.300000 0.300000 0.240000 1.000000;
}
else if ( $skybox_url == 1 ){
    $skybox_url = ~/data/skies/beginner/beginner_Sky.dml;
    $sun_1 = -0.444514 0.746881 -0.494547;
    $sun_2 = 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000;
    $sun_3 = 0.300000 0.300000 0.300000 1.000000;
}
else if ( $skybox_url == 2 ){
    $skybox_url = ~/data/skies/expert/expert_Sky.dml;
    $sun_1 = 0.444514 -0.746881 -0.494547;
    $sun_2 = 0.600000 0.600000 0.600000 1.000000;
    $sun_3 = 0.300000 0.300000 0.450000 1.000000;
}
else if ( $skybox_url == 3 ){
    $skybox_url = ~/data/skies/advanced/advanced_Sky.dml;
    $sun_1 = -0.668065 -0.506593 -0.545026;
    $sun_2 = 1.600000 1.600000 1.600000 1.000000;
    $sun_3 = 0.400000 0.400000 0.400000 1.000000;
}
else{
    $skybox_url = ~/data/skies/bonus/bonus_Sky.dml;
    $sun_1 = -0.00945897 -0.68078 -0.732427;
    $sun_2 = 0.600000 0.600000 0.250000 1.000000;
    $sun_3 = 0.400000 0.400000 0.300000 1.000000;
}

You could lots of fun shizzle to make you levels a less repetitive.

Use altcode 0160 to make a non breaking space or write   the other is just bad style...

Perfect, Cyberfox. I was on a work machine at the time and did not have the opportunity to write one up myself - figured someone had it already and could toss it in the MBDK for anyone that was looking for the functionality.

~Aayrl

nice one CF