When a destroyed subsystem was repaired, its submodels were only restored if the repair was done through a SEXP. A subsystem repaired by a support ship, by automatic repair, by a script, or through the debug console regained its hitpoints but not its submodels, so a ship could have a working turret with no model. Any -destroyed form also remained visible.
All of these now call restore_subsystem_submodels, which brings back the subsystem's submodels and hides the -destroyed submodel linked to a special-point subsystem. The -destroyed form of an ordinary submodel is hidden when the submodels are next replicated. The SEXP code uses the same function, with no change in its behavior.
Destruction outside do_subobj_destroyed_stuff now goes through a new blow_off_subsystem_submodels function, which do_subobj_destroyed_stuff also uses. It blows off both of the subsystem's submodels and shows any linked -destroyed submodel, unless the subsystem has "no disappear". This handles the cases where a subsystem appears destroyed without going through do_subobj_destroyed_stuff:
- the subsystem is destroyed at the start of the mission
- the subsystem was destroyed in the previous mission of a red-alert sequence
- the ship changes class while the subsystem's submodels are blown off
Previously the first two blew off only the first submodel, ignored "no disappear" for it, and never showed a linked -destroyed submodel; the third did nothing. For red alert, subsystems with no hitpoints at all are not treated as destroyed. For a class change, the visible state is carried over rather than inferred from hitpoints, so a subsystem set to zero without being blown up, or repaired without its submodels, keeps its appearance.
Red alert also restores the submodels of a subsystem that the mission file starts destroyed if the previous mission's data gives it hitpoints. Ship-copy-damage now shows or hides the -destroyed submodel linked to a special-point subsystem to match the copied state.
As before, the link between special-point subsystems and -destroyed submodels requires "$Link special-point subsystems to -destroyed submodels:" in game_settings.tbl.
The multiplayer hitpoint-update path is not changed. A client receives subsystem hitpoints separately from the notification that a subsystem was destroyed, so a hitpoint update sent just before the destruction could arrive after it and wrongly restore the submodels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
