Read out current missile after change

[Trajan von Olb]

Hi, with "event_player_cycled_active_weapon_ammo" I can start an event when the missile is changed. For example with the code:

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    <cue name="MBetty_TargetRemoveBaseGame" instantiate="true">
      <conditions>
        <event_player_cycled_active_weapon_ammo/>
		<check_value value="event.param == null"/>
      </conditions>
      <actions>
		[...]
      </actions>
    </cue>

But how do I get out WHICH missile exactly is loaded now? In the end, I need the text code of the "ware" to have a text output.... (with "speak") - as in the following example, where "page" and "line" should automatically be those of the missile as "ware".

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<speak actor="player.computer" page="10002" line="900" priority="90" />

How do I do that? Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks for answers.

lg. Trajan from Olb



PS: I'm trying to have VRO announce the missiles to me like "wasp" or "mosquito". The sounds are not present in X4, so I extracted them from X3 and have already managed to have them announced with "speak". In case someone is interested

[kuertee]

It looks like "event_object_activated_weapon" may provide more data:
"Event for when a Controllable object activates a weapon (object = Controllable, param = Weapon, param2 = ammo type (null if unlimited), param3 = ammo amount (not set if unlimited))"

I've not used it, so I don't know if that is sufficient for what you want. I've also not used "event_player_cycled_active_weapon_ammo".

[euclid]

Line 900 is longrange scanner activated. I'm not sure Betty has any missile names in the db (voice-1044 > 10002 > comm). However, if you manage to find them there then you may be able to use param2 (see kuertee's post above) to find out which missile it is and then determine the corresponding ogg file.

Cheers Euclid

[Trajan von Olb]

Hi, thank you very much for the answers!

@kuertee: Yes, that looks better, only unfortunately I'm all about reacting when the missiles are switched through, not when activating and not when changing weapons per se.
Could it be that event_player_cycled_active_weapon_ammo also has param2? Where can I find out?
And then how do I extract the t-number from this param2? Again questions over questions, sorry...

@euclid: That is absolutely correct and just an example. That's why in the "PS" I already wrote above that I'll supply the sounds (which I even succeeded in doing ) by extracting them from the huge sound file of X3. There are at least the rocket types "Wasp", "Mosquito" etc.. - and for now that's my goal, because I play VRO. But if that works out, I should certainly be able (that's my job at Film&TV, among other things) to cut together a "missile MK1" or something like that from the masses of MAterial, if I want to. I don't know what missiles exist in Vanilla, I haven't done that for too long.
But first I have to manage to trigger some announcement during the missile change (it works!) and to read out which missile is active after the change and to name exactly THIS missile. Unfortunately, it fails at the moment

Can you help me? Is there perhaps any system variable that contains the currently activated missile (waffen-Ammo is that)?

Would be really cool, I'm working on a MOD "more Betty" anyway, so that it becomes a bit more talkative, this fits in well.

Thanks for answers

Greetings Trajan von Olb

[kuertee]

The parameters that get sent with the events are listed with the event documentation in the XSDs. And it looks like that no parameter is sent with event_player_cycled_active_weapon_ammo.

You can try the Lua way. But you'll need to use my UI Extensions mod:
1. create a callback to your own lua function at the point when the ammo selector is created in "kuertee_menu_docked.lua". ie: line 406 looks the luas for ammo selectors.

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row[1]:createText("    " .. ReadText(1001, 2800) .. ReadText(1001, 120))	-- Ammunition, :
row[2]:setColSpan(10):createDropDown(dropdowndata, { startOption = function () return menu.getDropDownOption(weapon) end, active = dropdownactive })

2. you can get send the ammo data to your md by calling AddUITriggeredEvent() in your lua and listening for it with "event_ui_triggered" in your MD.

Of course, there's a lot more to it that those 2 steps.
But that's the gist of the process.

[Trajan von Olb]

Oh dear Kuertee, thank you as always. However, this is unfortunately far above my competence class... I don't understand anything about it and can't add necessary other things to it.

But who knows, maybe this is incentive to develop when I have more time here and there around Christmas....

But as an idea another way: couldn't one (without Lua) first read out the weapons of the current weapon group and there read out the ammo in case of missile launchers?
At least I found in the scriptproperties under "weapons" the subitem "ammo.ware", which seems logical to me, but so don't know at all how to deal with it, even with formatting.... Last but not least: what do I get then? And how do I make the t-value out of the "ware" to output the language?

Greetings Trajan

[euclid]

Have you tried to write param2 (see post above) to the player's logbook? I'd do it directly, as param2.knownname and as param2.macro, then see what is best to trigger Betty's voice. Unfortunately I'm not able to test that myself as none of my ships are using launchers.

Cheers Euclid