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Dr. Nil who started the whole YAH thing many moons ago, got so good at it, he did indeed change careers and now does something like it in RL!snork wrote:I just want to express my appreciation for the creativity of you lot.
And good designs, too. Some make me think some of you are in that kind of business in RL ?
I really enjoy these ads a lot, be it on buoys or pi42 stores.
Even on old hardware, they are just great.
Twas done on purpose, Ark got Eric W to take a look at the AI and got it changed so that the docking bay of the station was away from the witchpoint, so you had to fly past it to flip over and fly in, for the very reason you state - so you see more than just the docking port!Disembodied wrote:I've downloaded the updated YAH 4.1 and all my constores seem to end up with their docking bays pointing away from the witchpoint, which isn't very convenient ... although I think strict convenience should be set aside here in favour of displaying the stores in all their glory. Is there a way to make the constores appear perpendicular to a line running between the witchpoint and the planet? It's a shame not to show them off!
Showing off the constores is a good idea, but to be honest I think it would be better to set them perpendicular. Then you'd see them blazing in all their gaudy splendour from the WP, and get to gaze at them as you fly towards them all the way in – plus admire them in the rear view half the way in to the planet, too. At the moment you just get to see their tops, and then have to take a (in my case, usually too-close) peek at them out the side view just before making the turn around to dock.DaddyHoggy wrote:Twas done on purpose, Ark got Eric W to take a look at the AI and got it changed so that the docking bay of the station was away from the witchpoint, so you had to fly past it to flip over and fly in, for the very reason you state - so you see more than just the docking port!Disembodied wrote:I've downloaded the updated YAH 4.1 and all my constores seem to end up with their docking bays pointing away from the witchpoint, which isn't very convenient ... although I think strict convenience should be set aside here in favour of displaying the stores in all their glory. Is there a way to make the constores appear perpendicular to a line running between the witchpoint and the planet? It's a shame not to show them off!
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this.shipSpawned = function ()
{
var targetVector = this.ship.position.direction();
var angle = this.ship.heading.angleTo(targetVector);
var cross = this.ship.heading.cross(targetVector).direction();
this.ship.orientation = this.ship.orientation.rotate(cross, -angle);
delete this.shipSpawned;
}
) with Galactic Navy, although I can see that this code is doing something I can't see what to change to make the constores sit at 90° to the player. Is there a smart individual out there who can?Code: Select all
this.shipSpawned = function ()
{
var targetVector = this.ship.position.direction();
var angle = this.ship.heading.angleTo(targetVector);
var cross = this.ship.heading.cross(targetVector).direction();
this.ship.orientation = this.ship.orientation.rotate(cross, -angle/2);
delete this.shipSpawned;
}Good luck, I think the original plan was to have it at 90 (d'oh ALT+0186 doesn't work under Linux for the degree symbol!) but it didn't seem to work (could have misremembered) - Ark and/or Eric (who, I'm sure, did the scripting) would know more.Disembodied wrote:Wait a minute, I might be on to something here ...
Disembodied wrote:DaddyHoggy: see edited post above ...
this.ship.position.direction() is a unit vector away from the witchspace entry point (because that’s the origin of the coordinate system). For a vector between the main planet and the witchpoint, you’d want Vector3D(0, 0, 0).subtract(system.mainPlanet.position).direction(). (Obviously you’d want to check that system.mainPlanet exists first.) For the opposite direction, system.mainPlanet.position.direction() would suffice.Disembodied wrote:Code: Select all
this.shipSpawned = function () { var targetVector = this.ship.position.direction(); var angle = this.ship.heading.angleTo(targetVector); var cross = this.ship.heading.cross(targetVector).direction(); this.ship.orientation = this.ship.orientation.rotate(cross, -angle); delete this.shipSpawned; }
I'm going to have to start looking at this coding stuff more closely. I'm starting to suspect I might be some sort of javascript idiot savant ... or maybe just the idiot part. Only time will tell.Ahruman wrote:this.ship.position.direction() is a unit vector away from the witchspace entry point (because that’s the origin of the coordinate system). For a vector between the main planet and the witchpoint, you’d want Vector3D(0, 0, 0).subtract(system.mainPlanet.position).direction(). (Obviously you’d want to check that system.mainPlanet exists first.) For the opposite direction, system.mainPlanet.position.direction() would suffice.
Once you've done it once, it becomes like a drug and you just need more of it. Before you know it, you'll be making your own scripts and wondering how come you hadn't started earlier.Disembodied wrote:I'm going to have to start looking at this coding stuff more closely. I'm starting to suspect I might be some sort of javascript idiot savant ... or maybe just the idiot part. Only time will tell.
The reason they are positioned so is that the original stations had an AI that turned them in a orientation facing from the witchpoint.Disembodied wrote:Showing off the constores is a good idea, but to be honest I think it would be better to set them perpendicular. Then you'd see them blazing in all their gaudy splendour from the WP, and get to gaze at them as you fly towards them all the way in – plus admire them in the rear view half the way in to the planet, too. At the moment you just get to see their tops, and then have to take a (in my case, usually too-close) peek at them out the side view just before making the turn around to dock.
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this.ship.orientation = [w, x, y, z]Closely followed by realising quite how many of the bloody things you now have to maintain every time we have a trunk version-upanother_commander wrote:Once you've done it once, it becomes like a drug and you just need more of it. Before you know it, you'll be making your own scripts and wondering how come you hadn't started earlier.Disembodied wrote:I'm going to have to start looking at this coding stuff more closely. I'm starting to suspect I might be some sort of javascript idiot savant ... or maybe just the idiot part. Only time will tell.