Oolite Bulletins

El Viejo wrote:

I believe a star can go nova multiple times, and fade-back in between. It's supernovae that destroy themselves.

marcusrg wrote:

I was looking for a script which makes an NPC send a messsage to a player ship if it enters his scanner view. Something like "Hello, Commander!". I looked up in the wiki and the forums here but I couldn't find it... What I read already, is that is better to create a script for it. How can I do that? I tried to find an example in other oxp's, but I couldn't find some for this...
Thanks for the help.

this.shipSpawned = function()
{
	// sets primary role to "hunter", to make it accept distress calls
	this.ship.primaryRole = "hunter";
/*	
	// establishes the station group of the monitoring station
	var pulsarStationGroup = system.shipsWithRole("tianve-pulsar-station", this.ship)[0].group;

	// adds Rebecca to the station group
	pulsarStationGroup.addShip(this.ship);

	// and makes her aware of that
	this.ship.group = pulsarStationGroup;
*/	
	// starts a timer that periodically looks for the player
	// the timer looks every ten seconds (second number)
	this.scanForPlayerTimer = new Timer(this, this.scanForPlayer, 0, 10);
}

this.scanForPlayer = function()
{
	//  when having the player in scanner range for the first time ...
	if(this.ship.position.distanceTo(player.ship.position) < 25600)
	{
		// ... a message is sent ...
		this.ship.commsMessage("So it's Commander " + expandDescription("[commander_name]") + ", eh? I've heard of you. Just behave yourself around here, or else!");
		// ... and the timer is stopped
		this.scanForPlayerTimer.stop();
	}
}

BuggyBY wrote:

Doesn't [wiki]Rebecca Weston[/wiki] at the [wiki]Tianve Pulsar[/wiki] do just that? The relevant bit from the OXP's tianve-rebecca-script.js is below:

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this.shipSpawned = function()
{
	// sets primary role to "hunter", to make it accept distress calls
	this.ship.primaryRole = "hunter";
/*	
	// establishes the station group of the monitoring station
	var pulsarStationGroup = system.shipsWithRole("tianve-pulsar-station", this.ship)[0].group;

	// adds Rebecca to the station group
	pulsarStationGroup.addShip(this.ship);

	// and makes her aware of that
	this.ship.group = pulsarStationGroup;
*/	
	// starts a timer that periodically looks for the player
	// the timer looks every ten seconds (second number)
	this.scanForPlayerTimer = new Timer(this, this.scanForPlayer, 0, 10);
}

this.scanForPlayer = function()
{
	//  when having the player in scanner range for the first time ...
	if(this.ship.position.distanceTo(player.ship.position) < 25600)
	{
		// ... a message is sent ...
		this.ship.commsMessage("So it's Commander " + expandDescription("[commander_name]") + ", eh? I've heard of you. Just behave yourself around here, or else!");
		// ... and the timer is stopped
		this.scanForPlayerTimer.stop();
	}
}

marcusrg wrote:

Thanks, Smivs, trying this.

Update: It worked! Thanks!

this.entityDestroyed = function ()
{
    if (this.scanForPlayerTimer) {this.scanForPlayerTimer.stop(); delete this.scanForPlayerTimer};
}

Wildeblood wrote:

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if (to !== "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" || guiScreen !== "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" || player.ship.equipmentStatus("EQ_AI_TRADING_ASSISTANT") !== "EQUIPMENT_OK") {return;}

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if (to === "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" && guiScreen === "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" && player.ship.equipmentStatus("EQ_AI_TRADING_ASSISTANT") === "EQUIPMENT_OK")

So, what's the difference? Which is better?

Eric Walch wrote:

Wildeblood wrote:

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if (to !== "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" || guiScreen !== "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" || player.ship.equipmentStatus("EQ_AI_TRADING_ASSISTANT") !== "EQUIPMENT_OK") {return;}

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if (to === "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" && guiScreen === "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" && player.ship.equipmentStatus("EQ_AI_TRADING_ASSISTANT") === "EQUIPMENT_OK")

So, what's the difference? Which is better?

Both are equal. In both cases the evaluation stops after the first check when not at the right screen. In most cases 'to' check can be skipped as in most cases you only want to know the current guiScreen you are on. 'to' itself as check is not enough as another oxp might already have changed the current screen to a missionscreen.

if (guiScreen === "GUI_SCREEN_MARKET" && player.ship.docked === true && player.ship.equipmentStatus("EQ_AI_TRADING_ASSISTANT") === "EQUIPMENT_OK")

Wildeblood wrote:

So, what's the difference? Which is better?