Vehicle related EOCs

[Blueflowerss]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Had ideas recently regarding vehicle stuff that could lend itself to cool new features in mods (and maybe even basegame). As was suggested by people on devcord, i'm compiling my feature requests here.

Solution you would like.

Implementation of EOC stuff regarding vehicles, among those that immediately come to mind:

• Get Vehicle mass (with or without cargo/passengers)
• Get Vehicle facing direction
• Is said direction horizontal or diagonal? (so EOCs that move the vehicle don't trigger when it's diagonally faced)
• Is vehicle driven?
• Does it have passengers? How many? Are they hostile? (like if a horde is breaking into your car)
• Is it moving?
• How fast?
• Is is floating on water?
• Can it float on water?
• Is it in the air/falling? (not sure where this would be useful, but who knows)
• Is it flying?
• Can it fly?

And as for effects, keep in mind i really like Mind over Matter mod, these are mostly ideas i had for MoM powers

• Teleport vehicle (was watching clips from the movie Jumper. But also, long distance teleport for vehicles would be really sweet. Short distance for parking your car in the only safe place in the town, aka subway/roof of a bank or smth, maybe getting through tricky terrain.) Besides the spell/power stuff, I also imagined some fun Portal Storm related phenomena, if the player is driving a car during one, they'd get silently put on an infinite road.)
• Push Vehicle (for clearing obstructions, pushing the vehicle you are in for some twisted locomotion. teleport car into air and throw it into a horde)

My mind is blanking out on ideas besides teleportation.

Describe alternatives you have considered.

Live the life without cool vehicle EOCs

Additional context

vehicle highlighting so you know where you can and can't teleport probably scope creep

[Standing-Storm]

Whether it has a specific part would be useful for MoM purposes, since existing vehicle teleportation requires technological aid.

[zachary-kaelan]

One of the event EOC types is vehicle_moves, which provides the following context variables:

{ "avatar_on_board", bool },
{ "avatar_is_driving", bool },
{ "avatar_remote_control", bool },
{ "is_flying_aircraft", bool },
{ "is_floating_watercraft", bool },
{ "is_on_rails", bool },
{ "is_falling", bool },
{ "is_sinking", bool },
{ "is_skidding", bool },
{ "velocity", int }, // vehicle current velocity, mph * 100
{ "z", int },

That's most of the variables you want, but obviously it can't trigger on stationary vehicles, it can't affect vehicles in any way, and the variables can't be used in other event types.

As far as ideas, EOCs were created from NPC dialogue/effects syntax. Missions to fetch, deliver, repair, refuel, or modify vehicles would be some easy first additions. Also, one of the uses for EOCs is to JSONify furniture and item actions, so a number of vehicle part actions could be JSONified alongside them.

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