Oolite Bulletins

Thargoid wrote:

So the simplest way is to take your initial script, and adjust it to

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this.shipDied = function(whom, why) {
   if (Math.random() > 0.77) {
      this.ship.spawn("energy-bomb",1);
   }

where energy-bomb is one of the roles of the trunk q-bomb. Use that function definition to replace the one in your first script, keeping the header information (this.name etc) from your code above.[/color]

this.shipDied = function(whom, why) {
   if (Math.random() > 0.77) {
      system.addShips("energy-bomb", 1, this.ship.position, 0);
   }

• the q-bomb is spawned near the last position of the Star Destroyer, but not near enough to look like it's the explosion from the Star Destroyer.
  • Now that I write these lines I think it might be that the Q-Mine got drifted away by the shockwave of the exploding Star Destroyer? If this is the cause, is there a way I can prevent this?
• I can't set the time after which the Q-Bomb should spawn. For my purpose, that's no big deal, because the preset countdown of the Q-Bomb pretty much matches the time that I would have set anyway... but just out of curiosity, would it be possible to spawn the bomb after, let's say 5 seconds?

If anyone wonders how I manage to pulverize a StarDestroyer so easily: My savegame is at Xeer, the Navy Headquarters, and I've got a test-script that spawns a StarDestroyer near the station when I launch. All I have to do is wait a few seconds - the Star Destroyer is very aggressive and attacks everything in range. The navy then does the dirty work for me, whilst I hide behind the station and watch!
Hey, who just called me a dishonorable coward?!?

Rorschachhamster wrote:

I just thought... wouldn't it be possible to spawn a wrecked stardestroyer on destruction of the original one with the properties of a q-bomb? That way the q-bomb wouldn't be diplaced as it is the stardestroyer
EDIT: And even if it is displaced by the shockwave, you would see the stardestroyer drift aimlessly before... boom. If I'm not mistaken...

Thargoid wrote:

One other point from your previous code version - it isn't possible to pass parameters to a timer in the way you were doing. You either have to get fancy with the function definition and binding, or more simply just pass the parameters via a suitably scoped variable.

spara wrote:

I want to check if certain key exists in a descriptions.plist. At the moment I'm doing something like this:

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var key = expandDescription("[foo]");
if (key == "[foo]") 
//key not found

Not exactly a clean solution, as using expandDescription seems to thrown a JS warning. Is there some nice elegant way to do this check?

GGShinobi wrote:

And since I stole spara his answers (sorry spara) and because I'd like to know the answer to his question, too:

spara wrote:

I want to check if certain key exists in a descriptions.plist. At the moment I'm doing something like this:

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var key = expandDescription("[foo]");
if (key == "[foo]") 
//key not found

Not exactly a clean solution, as using expandDescription seems to thrown a JS warning. Is there some nice elegant way to do this check?

Has anyone an answer for this?

wiki wrote:

Whenever Oolite reads in a scriptline, missiontext or description, it first looks for something between brackets. If it finds something it looks to see if it is a mission_variable. If yes, it replaces the name of the variable with its content. Then it looks in the descriptions.plist. If it finds a key, it replaces the name with the string content. If it is an array it picks at random one of the strings.

if ( [foo] == null )
{
 // key not found
};

Smivs wrote:

Is restoreSubEntities what you are looking for?

cim wrote:

Give the subentities a ship script that checks the shields of the parent entity, and reassigns damage appropriately?

cim wrote:

But I'm inclined to think this is a bug: those rare ships that have both frangible subents and shields should obviously have the shields cover the subents too.

• make "wings" fold and "fins" retract a little when approaching a station aegis, so it becomes easier to dock, and also fold "radar-ears"
• have some special animations when approaching a planet or a sun (e.g. fold "radar-ears")
• make "wings" rotate (fast) when using jump (torus) drive
• make "wings" rotate (slowly first, getting faster) when initiating hyperspace-jump
• replace the ship/surround it with a comet tail when it activates the jump drive, so that it looks like a real comet?

GGShinobi wrote:

cim wrote:

But I'm inclined to think this is a bug: those rare ships that have both frangible subents and shields should obviously have the shields cover the subents too.

Hmm, I also thought that this is a strange behaviour. But I can definitely confirm that on my system, when the Falcon-S get's hit, most of the time my shields receive no damage but one of the subentities instead!

If that's a bug then there is no need for such an oxp?! Fine with me!

• Then shall I send a bug report because of this?
• Can anyone confirm this behaviour? Perhaps with other ships? (The Falcon-S is the only ship with frangible subentities that I've flown so far I think)

GGShinobi wrote:

In particular we'd like to know if it would be possible to:

• make "wings" fold and "fins" retract a little when approaching a station aegis, so it becomes easier to dock, and also fold "radar-ears"
• have some special animations when approaching a planet or a sun (e.g. fold "radar-ears")
• make "wings" rotate (fast) when using jump (torus) drive
• make "wings" rotate (slowly first, getting faster) when initiating hyperspace-jump

GGShinobi wrote:

• replace the ship/surround it with a comet tail when it activates the jump drive, so that it looks like a real comet?

GGShinobi wrote:

Another question is about the possibility to have the ship's thrusters "toggle" between different directions. The original of the ship mandoman is building (the comet) has the ability to start vertically, due to it's thrusters that are pointing downwards. It can also dodge in pretty much any direction because it has thrusters "everywhere". And it can fly (much faster) forward by using the normal thrusters (those in the wings and the main thruster located at rear). Would it somehow be possible to simulate that (fully or partially) in Oolite?

cim wrote:

No need to send a bug report for the other one - it's already on my list to look at.

GGShinobi wrote:

In particular we'd like to know if it would be possible to:

• make "wings" fold and "fins" retract a little when approaching a station aegis, so it becomes easier to dock, and also fold "radar-ears"
• have some special animations when approaching a planet or a sun (e.g. fold "radar-ears")
• make "wings" rotate (fast) when using jump (torus) drive
• make "wings" rotate (slowly first, getting faster) when initiating hyperspace-jump
• replace the ship/surround it with a comet tail when it activates the jump drive, so that it looks like a real comet?

* (for a better understanding of what I mean with "wings", "fins" and "radar-ears", please have a look at this image (the same as in the link above): http://imageshack.us/a/img545/1778/comet3.png)