HPL3/SOMA/Areas/Datamine Area

Overview

Helper Function: Datamine Handler
Datamining is what happens when the player in SOMA touches a dead person, intercom or other piece of technology and hears the last few moments of data buffer as an audio clip. Most of this is handled automatically by Prop_Datamine and Datamine Area, but there are a few helper functions available.

Properties

Base

• BlockLineOfSight: Blocks line of sight.
• EventInstanceTag: A tag used by the event system to group objects.
• UserVar: Arbitrary user variable. Acessable by calling the script function Entity_GetVar<type>()

Collide Callbacks

• CC_Entities: A list separated by commas or spaces of all entities that can trigger the callback. player is the player character.
• CC_Funcs: A list of functions that will run when the area is triggered.

Attachment

• ParentAttachEntity: The name of an entity that this soundscape is parented to.
• ParentAttachUseRotation: If the rotation of the parent should affect the soundscape.
• ParentAttachBody: The name of the body in the parent entity to attach to.
• ParentAttachLocked: Locks the area to the parent and disables local movement.

Datamine_Area

• IsBlackBox: Obsolete
• EffectProp: Entity to apply highlights to

Datamine_General

• MaxFocusDistance: Max distance the player can be to interact
• BeepingActive: If beeping should be active from the start ^[Clarify]
• FinalSubjectCallback: Callback once the player has heard the final line of the audio
• DataminingDoneCallback: Callback once the player has exited the datamine
• DatamineGlow: Should the datamine be highlighted when the player is near?
• RangeArea: Specify an area; once the player leaves it, the datamine fades.
• StopAllVoices: If true, all other voices are stopped when the player triggers the datamine.

Datamine_Page_#

• Page_#_VoiceSubject: Voicehandler Subject to play
• Page_#_TextCategory: Obsolete
• Page_#_TextEntry: Obsolete
• Page_#_Image: Obsolete