NPC shields [release]

CaptSolo · Post by **CaptSolo** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:09 pm

El Viejo wrote:
CaptSolo wrote:
Sorry for not replying sooner but my account was suspended for awhile.
Do you mean yesterday, CaptSolo? The forum was down, not your personal account.

If the forum was down would it say, "This account has been suspended"? I posted an image that might have had legality issues. I really should have known better. When this happened it struck me and straightaway removed it from public viewing. It will never happen again.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:11 pm

"This account has been suspended" is exactly the message that we all got, so I don't think it was anything you did.

CaptSolo · Post by **CaptSolo** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:56 pm

I am relieved. Being a member on several BB's this is the first time I received such a message. Muchas gracias El Viego.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:01 am

De nada... I like your website, but you should update your comment in the news section.

Oh... I apologise for the slight thread derailment, McLane.[wry smile]

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:13 am

El Viejo wrote:
Oh... I apologise for the slight thread derailment, McLane.[wry smile]

Am I not the one always saying that on these boards a thread isn't a thread until its derailment has been derailed?

CaptSolo · Post by **CaptSolo** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:56 am

El Viejo wrote:
...you should update your comment in the news section.

Done.

here · Post by **Fatleaf** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:19 pm

I just installed this oxp and I really liked it up to the point of taking out my mark in Random Hits. It seemed every time I destroyed his ship I got the message that he has been killed in an unexplained accident. I removed NPC Shields and everything was fine. Any ideas what the problem is?

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:42 pm

Fatleaf wrote:
I just installed this oxp and I really liked it up to the point of taking out my mark in Random Hits. It seemed every time I destroyed his ship I got the message that he has been killed in an unexplained accident. I removed NPC Shields and everything was fine. Any ideas what the problem is?

Not off the top of my head, but I'll investigate.

ZygoUgo · Post by **ZygoUgo** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:03 pm

I wuz ponderin meself wether once the sheilds being of the deplety-bobbed variety, that per'aps a subtle like effect of the 'fireworks' inclination might be a bit phantasmagorifical, in the likings of the sparky metals, so I might say, m'lud..

*curtsies

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:51 pm

Fatleaf wrote:
I just installed this oxp and I really liked it up to the point of taking out my mark in Random Hits. It seemed every time I destroyed his ship I got the message that he has been killed in an unexplained accident. I removed NPC Shields and everything was fine. Any ideas what the problem is?

I just got around to testing it with Random Hits 1.4.7, and everything was fine. I was correctly credited for my kill.

What version of Random Hits are you using?

here · Post by **Fatleaf** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:04 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
What version of Random Hits are you using?

1.4.9 It might have been a glitch I will try it again with another hit. The Mark was flying a Tiger mkII iif it helps in some way.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:36 pm

No, you're right.

The proof-of-concept versions have a bug which will interfere with Random Hits (and probably other OXPs). I just uploaded version 1.0 which fixes the bug. You find it

on the Wiki.

NPC-shields 1.0 also includes a way for ship designers to exclude their ships from getting shields. Please read the Wiki or the readMe.

I also re-uploaded

Generation Ships.oxp and

Flying Dutchman.oxp, because these ships are not supposed to have shields, and are excluded via the new method.

here · Post by **Fatleaf** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:02 pm

Brilliant. I will try it out tonight. Let you know how I get on.

Switeck · Post by **Switeck** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:35 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
NPC-shields 1.0 also includes a way for ship designers to exclude their ships from getting shields. Please read the Wiki or the readMe.

I saw this in the if statement that decides whether an NPC ship should have shields or not:
|| (ship.scriptInfo.npc_shields && ship.scriptInfo.npc_shields === "no")
I'm a bit of a loss how both those could be true at the same time. Does the first one (ship.scriptInfo.npc_shields) mean not null rather than "yes"?

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:06 pm

Switeck wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
NPC-shields 1.0 also includes a way for ship designers to exclude their ships from getting shields. Please read the Wiki or the readMe.
I saw this in the if statement that decides whether an NPC ship should have shields or not:
|| (ship.scriptInfo.npc_shields && ship.scriptInfo.npc_shields === "no")
I'm a bit of a loss how both those could be true at the same time. Does the first one (ship.scriptInfo.npc_shields) mean not null rather than "yes"?

The first tests whether the key exists, and the second checks its value. If you'd use only the second you'd get an error message in the log for each ship that doesn't have the key (= almost all ships).

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