[Discussion] Generic X3TC S&M questions II

Carlo the Curious · Post by **Carlo the Curious** » Sun, 29. Aug 10, 18:52

'get ship array' might work.

To loop through the universe you can use 'get max sectors in x direction, 'get max sectors in y direction', and a couple of while/dec loops with 'get sector from universe index' (and checking it exists, of course).

Carlo the Curious · Post by **Carlo the Curious** » Sun, 29. Aug 10, 23:03

Is there an easy way to get the number of docking slots for all stations (for LittleShips, for BigShips & for HugeShips)?

I can't find the data in the T files, and I'm not sure what 'get dock bay size' is returning.

TrixX · Post by **TrixX** » Tue, 31. Aug 10, 15:15

Don't mean to be repetitive, but no-one answered my post on the previous page, think it got drowned out by the sudden flood of other posts!

Is there a way to modify the Highlight bars and the text colours ingame as working on a complete conversion of the HUD to a different colour looks odd with out of sync font and highlight colours.

ThisIsHarsh · Post by **ThisIsHarsh** » Tue, 31. Aug 10, 19:06

Carlo the Curious wrote:Is there an easy way to get the number of docking slots for all stations (for LittleShips, for BigShips & for HugeShips)?

I can't find the data in the T files, and I'm not sure what 'get dock bay size' is returning.

I can't be much help, except to say that 'get dock bay size' returns the total amount of docking slots, external and internal for all ship classes. I don't think there are any script commands to find the number of docking slots of different types. As for t-files, no idea I'm afraid.

Serial Kicked · Post by **Serial Kicked** » Tue, 31. Aug 10, 20:18

If by "internal docking" you mean the "fighter bay". Afaik it's unlimited and there's no way to know if one is here or not through script (sadly) only. Well you could still stock what station dock what in an array, but it wouldn't be mod friendly.

Using the "is docking allowed/possible" commands may help in determining what kind of docking clamps are available. But yeah, it's unpractical.

Carlo the Curious · Post by **Carlo the Curious** » Wed, 1. Sep 10, 12:06

Bah. Thanks anyway.

ShotGlockMF · Post by **ShotGlockMF** » Thu, 2. Sep 10, 14:12

I played around with CockPitCallback mod, and when i hid the HUD the front of the ship showed up. I don't want the cockpit, i just want the front of the ship to show up. When i uninstall the mod, i lose everything.

Are there any mods that just show the front of the ship, or is there an option somewhere to just show the front of the ship with the mod or the standalone game? Thanks.

jlehtone · Post by **jlehtone** » Thu, 2. Sep 10, 21:29

As I hinted in your (now merged) thread, you are probably looking for moving the position of the cockpit camera. Cockpit and each turret do have their own camera positions (set somewhere in the model of the ship, I presume).

There have been such mods, or at least users claiming having done so in their own games. Camera position tends to be a "personal preference", so there might not be any "published" ones -- cannot recall for sure.

With luck, [url=http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=216693]TC Tutorials[/url] might have hints now that you have couple more keywords to look with.

s9ilent · Post by **s9ilent** » Fri, 3. Sep 10, 00:56

@Carlo and docking
Unfortunately, I do not think there is, and the script editor has a... disconnect between it's can-dock script(s) and whether or not it can actually dock.
From my limited experience, is docking possible just checks if there are any clamps, that could possibly support a ship of that size (irrespective of whether or not they are full). (e.g. Which means there could be no space on the station for a TS, but it would still return true)
(I think at least... - I do tend to imagine these things some times...)

ThisIsHarsh · Post by **ThisIsHarsh** » Fri, 3. Sep 10, 07:38

Does anyone know a way to get the amount of jumpdrive resupply in terms of Energy Cells, rather than in terms of jumps? I mean, not the fuel required but the max quantity.

s9ilent · Post by **s9ilent** » Fri, 3. Sep 10, 10:03

There is this command:

<RetVar/IF> <RefObj> -> get resupply fuel required
(v 2.1? addition? make sure your ex scriptor is up to date if its not there)

If you need to do more complex things, you can do:
$SingleJumpEnergy = $ship> needed jump drive energy for jump to sector $ship.sector
(ususally i just do $single = [THIS]-> needed jumpdrive... to [SECTOR]) and stick that in a separate lib script)
$jumps = $ship -> get jumpdrive fuel resupply

$total = $jumps * $SingleJumpEnergy
Get Jump driver energy usage to [SECTOR] gives you the required for a single sector jump, then you can just multiply the numbers.

ThisIsHarsh · Post by **ThisIsHarsh** » Fri, 3. Sep 10, 10:21

I have the 'get resupply fuel required', but that only works if fuel is required, and I need to know the resupply quantity in ecells regardless of whether it is required or not.

Your second solution is just what I was after, however. I wasn't sure if just multiplying the cost of a single jump would work out. Cheers for that.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Tue, 7. Sep 10, 11:25

Does anyone know the exact way that debris is placed on asteroid death?

I know it's part of the engine, but is it set what size, rottation and position debris will be for each asteroid? If not, then I can't replicate that. Is there any other way I can kill and asteroid which will yeild the debris?

s9ilent · Post by **s9ilent** » Tue, 7. Sep 10, 13:30

Can you not destroy asteroid with the S.E?

However, their position/rotation is someone... funky.. in that if you target it with the script editor, it will not quite target the debris it self, but instead target the previous centre point of one of the original asteroid (I don't know which one thou...)

But from all my testing, destroying with the s.e does not seem to have the same affect (the debris visually remains there, but in every other sense it is not) and results in FAR lower yield then if I manually destroy the rocks (i.e. continuously ramming the rocks with my M7, produced about 200+ Nvidium from a 2-3 yield asteroid, where as trying to use a script to destroy them for me resulted in a lot less)

I may have imagined it (as I have never been able to find the post since) but I think back in the days of x3r/x2, someone worked out exactly which each type of debris subtype spawns on it's death. (It was link to a different site, as I remember it being in a table). But I do tend to imagine these things... some times...

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Tue, 7. Sep 10, 13:32

All SE commands I use cause it to run the break into debris animation, then it disappears.

mark_a_condren · Post by **mark_a_condren** » Tue, 7. Sep 10, 15:44

I may have imagined it (as I have never been able to find the post since) but I think back in the days of x3r/x2, someone worked out exactly which each type of debris subtype spawns on it's death. (It was link to a different site, as I remember it being in a table). But I do tend to imagine these things... some times...

Don't worry, your not going 'Gah Gah', i remember that too. Was all layed out in a table with, if you break this asteroid type you get between x and y amount of debris, if you break that you get between a and b amount of collectable rock etc. Along with explanations on how they got the data.

No idea now were i found it, it was a while ago though.

MarCon

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Tue, 7. Sep 10, 16:11

If someone found it I'd be very grateful...

Gyver162 · Post by **Gyver162** » Tue, 7. Sep 10, 17:04

Hello, i have a simple question.
How to write a script that will inform me about destroyed ship (for example in log book)? Is there any way to recognize destroyed ship in script? (there must be ;] )

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Tue, 7. Sep 10, 17:17

Well what are the chances of that!

I'm working on my military plugin at the moment and I'm currently coding a script which notifies the player of losses!

It's quite simple, but requires the use of signals.

First you need to add a secondary 'Signal: Killed' to ships.

Then the script that runs, just check if it's player or not, and if it is just make your basic text line 'Your ship (ship) was killed in (sector)'

You can even make it as complex as you like, saying what killed it etc.

Gyver162 · Post by **Gyver162** » Tue, 7. Sep 10, 21:29

Two questions:
First: why this line is running twice script x when I destroyed a ship.

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global secondary signal map: add signal={SIGNAL_KILLED} race={Player} class={Ship} script='x' prio=1000 name='x'

And second:

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$ship.dist.1 = find ship: sector=$sector class or type={Ship} race={Player} flags=null refobj=[THIS] maxdist=2000 maxnum=null refpos=null

What this command is returning out? Array or a single ship?