How do you script a ship in a wing to attack

[kaistern]

I am trying to write a script to give orders to a ship in a wing

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$target = get player tracking aim
$flag = get global variable: name='qw_flag'
$Wing = get predefined wing: wing=$flag
$wing.ships = get flight wing ship array: wing=$Wing
$ship = $wing.ships[0]
if $target-> is [PLAYERSHIP] a enemy
$ship = [THIS]-> call script '!wing.ship.attack.pck' :
else if $target-> is [PLAYERSHIP] a friend
$ship = [THIS]-> call script '!ship.cmd.protect.std' : target=$target stopifleaderdocked=[FALSE]
else
$ship = [THIS]-> call script '!ship.cmd.protect.std' : target=[PLAYERSHIP] stopifleaderdocked=[FALSE]
end
return null

where qw_flag equals blue wing

but nothing happens. I think the problem is in scripts i am calling (maybe). I also tried writing a script to test the protect script it was some thing like

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$target = get player tracking aim
$target= [THIS]-> call script '!ship.cmd.protect.std' : target=[playership] stopifleaderdocked=[FALSE]

and nothing happened. I tried numerous different attack/fight script but none of them worked and im stumped... any ideas? Running LU BTW[/code]

[Cycrow]

The problem is that you are not calling the scripts on the correct object.

in your second example, you need to run the protect script on the target object.

$target -> call script '!ship.cmd.protect.std'

This then runs the scripts, !ship.cmd.protect.std, on the object stored in $target.

[THIS] is the point to the object the script is being run on, in the case of global scripts, [THIS] will be null.
scripts run from hotkeys will be global and therfore dont have [THIS]
So all the scripts you are calling are being called as global scripts, which is not what you want

It will also be an idea to check that the target object is actually valid, as you wont always have a tracking aim (the ship you are currently targetting)

so use something like

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$target = get player tracking aim
skip if $target -> exists
   return null

[kaistern]

now I feel like a dumbass lol well at least now I know what [this] means

THANKS!!!!!

[Joubarbe]

A few problems in your script :

1/ The scripts you're calling either don't exist, or are not relevant. You want !wing.cmd.attack.std and !wing.cmd.protect.std.

2/ These scripts don't return anything, so you just have to write :

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 = [THIS] -> call script !wing.cmd.protect.std : target=$target stopifleaderdocked=[FALSE]

3/ But if you do this, your current script would have to wait the end of the command to continue, meaning that you're going to end with a lot of unfinished global tasks when you press a hotkey.

I won't go into details (read the MSCI Handbook, section 7), but you need to do that :

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START [THIS] -> call script !wing.cmd.protect.std : target=$target stopifleaderdocked=[FALSE]

That way, the script you call will be launched on another process (that's more complex than that) and your main script will continue and return null, as planned.

4/ You're going to have more problems, but we'll deal with that later You should continue to ask your questions on your other thread.