targeting distant entities

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:32 pm

Confirmed A_C. I was able to repro it with a mine instead of a missile.

Okti · Post by **Okti** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:44 pm

Sorry Chaps,

I know that bug for a long time. But I was using that to cheat in a way. If the selected pylon based equipment is not a misile, You can target an entity far a way.

As demontrated below.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:49 pm

Even if a bug has been present for a long time it is still a bug.

It may be found by someone else and squashed any minute.

Therefore it's generally better to report bugs than to exploit them.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:51 pm

@ Okti, what ship is that your flying? .............10 missile bays!!!

Post by **Eric Walch** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:28 pm

another_commander wrote:
Replicated it with the Imperial Courier here too. OK, we seem to have a lead. Let's try to see now what it is inside the Courier that causes the bug to occur.

Edit: Actually, it is your save game, not the Imperial Courier. I changed the ship in the savefile to a standard Cobra and got the bug again.

Maybe the internal player variable ident_engaged must also be set to true when a target is set for the player by script? The system in not well prepared to have a target with ident_engaged set to false. Lost targets are explicit only evaluated when ident_engaged is true. (Or for missiles with a target)

Okti · Post by **Okti** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:09 pm

TGHC wrote:
@ Okti, what ship is that your flying? .............10 missile bays!!!

An Illegaly modified Vortex. Which has an illegaly modified Iron Hide to make it nearly inmortal

Edit: Because Vortex has 5 swicthable misille bays, I can cary up to 50

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 3:08 pm

Fixed - hopefully for good - in r4516.

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