Oolite Bulletins

Thargoid wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

I haven't tried it yet, but I think it should be possible to give a subentity a ship script of its own. That would make it even easier. You wouldn't need a timer, but just a shipDied in the subentity's script, and then this.ship.owner.explode().

Last time I tried something like that it didn't work, but that was a while ago.

If it does work now then yes I agree it's a much simpler way, but I'm not sure you can hang separate scripts off sub-entities. Hence why I suggested the rather less streamlined method instead.

var mother = this.ship;
var sub = this.ship.subentities[0];
sub.script.shipDied = function () { mother.explode(); }

Ahruman wrote:

I haven’t tried setting scripts on subentities, but even if it doesn’t work they should have the default script, and you can add handlers to that from the parent ship’s script:
Code:
var mother = this.ship;
var sub = this.ship.subentities[0];
sub.script.shipDied = function () { mother.explode(); }

Okti wrote:

Ahruman wrote:

I haven’t tried setting scripts on subentities, but even if it doesn’t work they should have the default script, and you can add handlers to that from the parent ship’s script:
Code:
var mother = this.ship;
var sub = this.ship.subentities[0];
sub.script.shipDied = function () { mother.explode(); }

The only thing, can we be sure about player actually shooting the subentities, if it is for a NPC. I mean is there a way the subentities can be aimed individually by the player?

Sorry about turning your thread into something else Dragonfire, but the outcome may be quite usefull

Okti wrote:

Ahruman wrote:

I haven’t tried setting scripts on subentities, but even if it doesn’t work they should have the default script, and you can add handlers to that from the parent ship’s script:
Code:
var mother = this.ship;
var sub = this.ship.subentities[0];
sub.script.shipDied = function () { mother.explode(); }

The only thing, can we be sure about player actually shooting the subentities, if it is for a NPC. I mean is there a way the subentities can be aimed individually by the player?

Sorry about turning your thread into something else Dragonfire, but the outcome may be quite usefull

Okti wrote:

The only thing, can we be sure about player actually shooting the subentities, if it is for a NPC. I mean is there a way the subentities can be aimed individually by the player?

 DW-Cobra

m4r35n357 wrote:

Hmm, did this wiki page backfire? It's part of the game, if you want it . . . peace

Capt. Murphy wrote:

I don't think that's controversial, just even more to think about.

Time limits to get to certain points could be tailored for the player ships speed.

Shipdata.plists for NPC's with mission specific roles could contain easy,moderate and hard versions of each role, and the mission script could select which level to use depending on certain stats of the player ship.

Base it on the core ships and look at say cargo, max energy, recharge rate, speed and pylons. If an OXP player ship has 2 or more in excess of any of the core ships, with the rest in 'range' then they get hard NPC's etc....