CloakGenerator bug with hover vehicles

[FS-21]

If I use a building:
CloakGenerator=yes
CloakRadiusInCells=12

This can cloak every unit/building in the area but now not works on hover vehicles like Allied/Soviet/Yuri Hovercrafts, Robot tanks, Siege chopper, Kirov, Yuri Flying Disk.

[Renegade (renegade)]

Can anyone independently confirm this?

Either way, as much as it hurts to leave it in, I wouldn't classify this as a showstopper.

Unless someone drive-by fixes it in the next few hours, it'll have to run under "Known Issues" until after the release.

[mevitar (mevitar)]

Yes, this problem exists. It also exists with no-Ares YR.

[Renegade (renegade)]

Hooray for not being at fault!
Thanks mevitar.

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

Oh my... sorry, this happens when I don't sleep so much :S

After reading mevitar message I have tried again but it without Ares and is true (I don't know what I had in my head when I said "...but now not works...").

[mevitar (mevitar)]

Because of Graion's recently reported #1498 issue, I thought this one needs a bit more explanation (it's late, but I didn't remember about this before).

There are some circumstances that hover and jumpjet units can become cloaked.
Firstly, when they exit a War Factory that was under a cloaking field effect (they uncloak as soon as they leave the cloaking field).
Secondly, they cloak if they somehow land on the ground in the cloaking field (and then normally uncloak if they leave it later).
This means that those units aren't completely prevented from cloaking, but their height above the ground affects it.

[Renegade (renegade)]

Thanks, that's a very important hint!

[Starkku (starkku)]

Appears to work in 13.258.551. Hover locomotor units are correctly cloaked by cloak generators and likewise lose the cloak once they leave the cloaking radius of the generator.

[FS-21 (jagarni1983)]

With the version 13.258.551 I verified:
- Doesn't work on air hover units like Rocketeers, Siege choppers, Kirovs, Flying Disks, Night Hawks (unless they can stand or deploy into ground in which case they get the cloak effect).
- Works on ground hover units like Robot tanks and Allied/Soviet/Yuri Hovercrafts.

[AlexB (alexander-b)]

That is intended. Jumpjet isn't hover, and as far as I know it worked that way in TS, too. But it should be possible to make it a little smarter or at least optional. If modders set an always-flying unit to be cloakable, the game shouldn't second-guess this when the unit is in the air.

[AlexB (alexander-b)]

To affect flying units with Cloak Generator effect, there is now a global [General]CloakHeight= tag. Set this to a value larger than the balloon hover height or flight level. It defaults to HoverHeight.

And: Cloakable=yes units will always cloak now.