Please help adding wormholes to modded starting system initializer.

[osric_athanasius]

Greetings,

Been playing around with creating a modded starting system.

However, I am having trouble adding a functioning wormhole to the system. A wormhole is created that does not have a connection. Now, looking at the galaxy in observer mode. The second wormhole appears to be created in the same system as the first and they are not properly connected. In the solar system view, only one wormhole appears. It is likely that the 2nd (if it exists) in placed underneath it.

Does anyone have a some functioning code or guidance for me to work from?
Ideally, I would like to test the concept of a wormhole junction. But I will settle for a functioning wormhole bridge in this first modding attempt.


Here is the code I have in the last attempt:

init_effect = {
       spawn_natural_wormhole = {
           spawn_system = { orbit_distance = 100 orbit_angle = 90 random_pos = yes }
       }
       random_system = {
           spawn_natural_wormhole = {
               spawn_system = { orbit_distance = 100 orbit_angle = 180 random_pos = yes }
           }
           link_wormholes = from
       }
    
    
    
   }

Thanks in advance.

 

[ViolentBeetle]

Use "code" tag to make your code more readable.

Where exactly does "from" lead in your case? I think this is the issue - looks like it leads nowhere.

 

[Risa]

You need something like this

    random_system = {
     prev = { # done this way to ensure we don't spawn "orphan" wormholes (wormholes that aren't linked to anything)
       spawn_natural_wormhole = {
       random_pos = yes
       orbit_angle = 360
      }
     }
     spawn_natural_wormhole = {
      random_pos = yes
      orbit_angle = 360
     }
     link_wormholes = prev
    }

Copied from event game_start.31

 

[osric_athanasius]

Thanks Risa,
Especially for the location of this code. I had a headache trying to find an example in the existing code to work from.

Will test it out to see how it performs.

 

[osric_athanasius]

Greetings,

Once again, Thank you Risa.

I now have some functioning wormhole creation code. Unfortunately, it was not possible to get the wormhole creation code to work inside a system initialiser.
I suspect that this due to the likely non-existence of other systems at the time the code runs. I base this on the behaviour I noted in my first post and further testing.

So I had to built a separate event and a star flag to create the wormhole on day 2 of the game. The code is below.

Technically, it is designed to create multiple wormholes. Unfortunately, the game crashes if the count is set to more than 1. So, the code creates only a wormhole bridge and not a wormhole junction.

# Creation of Why junction bridge
country_event = {
   id = junction.1
   
   hide_window = yes
   
   title = junction.1.name
   desc = junction.1.desc
   
   fire_only_once = yes
   
   trigger = {
       NOT = { has_global_flag = why_junction_created }
       any_system = { has_star_flag = why_junction }
       
   }
   

   immediate = {
       set_global_flag = why_junction_created
       
       while = {
           count = 1
           random_system = {
               limit = {
                   has_star_flag = why_junction
               }

               
               random_system = {
                   limit = {
                       NOR = {
                           has_natural_wormhole = yes
                           starting_system = yes
                           has_star_flag = empire_cluster
                       }
                       distance = {
                           source = prev
                           min_distance = 200
                       }
                   }
                   prev = { # done this way to ensure we don't spawn "orphan" wormholes (wormholes that aren't linked to anything)
                       spawn_natural_wormhole = {
                           random_pos = yes
                           orbit_angle = 360
                       }
                   }
                   spawn_natural_wormhole = {
                       random_pos = yes
                       orbit_angle = 360
                   }
                   link_wormholes = prev
               }
           }   
       }   
   }  
}