[Discussion] Generic X3TC S&M questions II

h2o.Ava · Post by **h2o.Ava** » Wed, 1. Dec 10, 19:32

drop the km, 1000km is much too large.
in MD: the sector size averages around 35km

Since you are creating missions that you wanted triggered via SE, I'd love to show you how to do it with MD Control.
I'm looking for a willing test subject to use and let me put on display as an example for.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Wed, 1. Dec 10, 19:36

But I need somewhere to hide ships... can I use null?

h2o.Ava · Post by **h2o.Ava** » Wed, 1. Dec 10, 20:34

I use kuiper belt
x="-100000" y="0" z="0"

or Aldrin... that place is just too big

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Wed, 1. Dec 10, 20:49

Hm... can you place stuff inside the asteroid?

h2o.Ava · Post by **h2o.Ava** » Wed, 1. Dec 10, 21:02

nope, but you could hide them inside MD Controls hidden control sector.

*this post ooozes with blatant self-promotion*

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Thu, 2. Dec 10, 09:38

Still having problems finding something at set coords... it's just finding anything randomly in the sector at the moment. -.-

Post by **Ketraar** » Thu, 2. Dec 10, 12:38

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<find_ship name="this.triggership">
                <position x="1000km" y="1000km" z="1000km" exact="0"/>
                <sector x="0" y="0"/>
              </find_ship>

dont use exact=0, this kinda limits the search, use min=0 max 20km instead (20km radius from that position).

MFG

Ketraar

h2o.Ava · Post by **h2o.Ava** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 00:14

nevermind..

MD crashes if you use set_value in the top cue.
Moving set_value to the first child cue prevented MD from crashing.

h2o.Ava · Post by **h2o.Ava** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 08:37

Anyone know how notoriety loss is tied to sig.attacked and sig.killed?

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 11:48

No idea.

Anyone know what the limits are for adding ships to stations? The script in the galaxy editor happily adds ships for sale to equipment docks and the like, but doesn't seem to work when I do it manually in game.

h2o.Ava · Post by **h2o.Ava** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 16:40

might be MD only.
SRM uses the MD to add ships to shipyards.

Which gives me the idea that MD Control needs to pass strings asap so that SE can tell MD which ships to add/remove etc..

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 21:38

Few quick menu questions because I forgot how to do them...

How do you make it go back to a menu after doing something else? Forgot.

How do you make a menu which refreshes constanly (or at least every few seconds). Always wanted to know.

ScRaT_GER · Post by **ScRaT_GER** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 21:53

How do you make it go back to a menu after doing something else? Forgot.

You go back the point, where you created the old menu?!
I always do it like this:

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MainMenu:

$menu = create new menu...
* Fill menu with stuff
$ret = open menu: $menu
if $ret == 'Something'
  $submenu = create new menu...
  * Fill submenu
  $ret == open menu: $submenu
  if $ret == -1
    goto label MainMenu
  end
end

How do you make a menu which refreshes constanly (or at least every few seconds). Always wanted to know.

Have a look at my tutorial.

Greetings,
ScRaT

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 22:07

REMOVED.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 22:08

Ah, thanks!

Now I just need to read up a bit on butchering strings.

h2o.Ava · Post by **h2o.Ava** » Sat, 11. Dec 10, 23:34

when converting a number to string it will add commas ","

10000 becomes 10,000
5 positions become 6

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sun, 12. Dec 10, 10:39

That might be useful!

Ok, let's assume I've got a nice long string of stuff. Seperated, in this case, by ;;.

How would I find each section...?

There's several, all seperated by ;;... some is string, some are numbers.

How would I pull the whole lot apart!?

ScRaT_GER · Post by **ScRaT_GER** » Sun, 12. Dec 10, 10:53

You could use a premade library, like this one (see 1. split.string.by.delim).
Or you could write yourself your own library, which is not that hard.

This is what I use:

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010   $array =  array alloc: size=0
011   
012   skip if $delim
013   |$delim = ','
014   
015   * find first element
016   $position =  find position of pattern $delim in $string
017   
018   skip if $position >= 0
019   |$position =  get length of string $string
020   
021   while $position > 0
022   |$element =  get substring of $string offset=0 length=$position
023   |$length =  get length of string $element
024   |
025   |append $element to array $array
026   |
027   * slice string, only using the part after the current element
028   |$length =  get length of string $string
029   |$length = $length - $position
030   |inc $position = 
031   |$string =  get substring of $string offset=$position length=$length
032   |
033   * find next position
034   |$position =  find position of pattern $delim in $string
035   |
036   |skip if $position >= 0
037   ||$position =  get length of string $string
038   |
039 @ |= wait 1 ms
040   end
041   
042   return $array

Interestingly, I just saw that my code doesn't work with delimeters longer than 1 character (see line 31).

I guess I'll have to correct that.

Greetings,
ScRaT

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sun, 12. Dec 10, 10:57

Well in this case the delimeters are 2 long...

EDIT: Length +/- 1 - the position...? Hmmm.

ScRaT_GER · Post by **ScRaT_GER** » Sun, 12. Dec 10, 11:13

EDIT: Length +/- 1 - the position...? Hmmm.

Simply replace line 30 with:
$lengthDelim = get length of string $delim
$position = $position + $lengthDelim

This should be enough. Don't have the time to test it right now though.

Greetings,
ScRaT

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[Discussion] Generic X3TC S&M questions II