Three questions

[Lestradae]

Help, please

1.) Is it possible to like_ship a subentity?

2.) Will a turret only work in-game if it has ...

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<key>setup_actions</key>
                <array>
                        <string>initialiseTurret</string>
                </array>

... in its set-up?

3.) Could someone be so friendly and point me to the place where the new is_template is documented in a how-to form?

Answers are going to be greatly appreciated

L

[Commander McLane]

1.) Is it possible to like_ship a subentity?

Of course. Shipdata-entry is shipdata-entry. No difference what kind of entity it is going to be in the game.

2.) Will a turret only work in-game if it has ...

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<key>setup_actions</key>
                <array>
                        <string>initialiseTurret</string>
                </array>

... in its set-up?

Yes, as explained in the documentation.

3.) Could someone be so friendly and point me to the place where the new is_template is documented in a how-to form?

I would again try to use the documentation (both parts of it).

It's really simple. You mark the shipdata-entry that you only want to use as a template. And then you reference it with like_ship in the entries that depend on it.

NOTE, however, that it currently doesn't seem to work correctly, as reported by some scripters.

[Lestradae]

Thanks, CMcL, for the enlightening commentary!

Concerning ...

NOTE, however, that it currently doesn't seem to work correctly, as reported by some scripters.

... I noted, and am going to observe what comes out of this, perhaps do a little testing regarding the function on my own if I find the time

Cheers

L