Oolite Bulletins

Switeck wrote:

if(player.ship.scriptedMisjump != true && this.gmj_active == 1) player.ship.scriptedMisjump = true;

cim wrote:

And yes, obviously feel free to steal any useful bits for HIMSN.

Smivs wrote:

A quick question. Am I right in assuming that the player never actually completes the galjump before the clever stuff starts to work? In other words, starting say from galaxy one, the jump to galaxy two is not completed and the player is positioned still in G1 in such a way that it seems thay are in inter-galactic space. Or is it the other way round...they actually jump to G2 before the script positions the ship?

That's already there - worldScripts["Galactic Misjump"].gmj_active (if it's 1, the player is either in "intergalactic space" or has escaped from it by a method I didn't expect). Moving the player's ship is probably the only one of those three you shouldn't do (since I already do that) - the others are probably fine in general (some of the ship adjustments may be more thematic than others, I guess, but that's up to you)

"interstellar space" = {
				"sky_n_stars" = "50";
				"sky_n_blurs" = "1";
		};

sky_n_stars = 350;
sky_n_blobs = 40;

UK_Eliter wrote:

I have the impression, from a glance at your script, that you want to populate (the relevant area of) the space in question entirely via your script. If so, then, when gmj_active has the value 1, my script should do nothing at all. So, is that the way you'd like it?

UK_Eliter wrote:

One more thing. I think that your planetinfo file's stipulations for the interstellar sky clashes with mine.

cim wrote:

Essentially, I fake intergalactic space by sticking the player in some nearby interstellar space, disabling any ship system that might let them tell the difference, and moving the player out of the way of the usual contents.

cim wrote:

Switeck wrote:

if(player.ship.scriptedMisjump != true && this.gmj_active == 1) player.ship.scriptedMisjump = true;

I'll add something similar to 0.3 (but of course any OXP that happens to be later in the script order will be able to turn it off again, so it's not guaranteed to work even then)

UK_Eliter wrote:

As to sky properties, there seem to be two options. That said, I don't know if either is actually possible. Option (1): set the player to be in one particular bit of interstellar space. Then I could ensure that my OXP did nothing graphically to that bit of space. Although I suppose that, if this is even possible, you'd need to specify a different bit of interstellar space - between two particular systems - for each galaxy. Alternatively (2) perhaps you can set sky properties via script? If so, then, presuming the script overrides the planetinfo file, we'll be fine.

UK_Eliter wrote:

I think you need something under the this.playerCancelledJumpCountdown handler, such that if the player cancels the intergalactic jump, there is no chance of a galactic misjump.

UK_Eliter wrote:

I think you need something under the this.playerCancelledJumpCountdown handler, such that if the player cancels the intergalactic jump, there is no chance of a galactic misjump. For I think I just managed to do the following. Started an galactic jump countdown, aborted it, started a normal jump countdown, and then . . ended up in intergalactic space.