[SCR][MD][TC][AP] LIFE-V0.95b (update: 06-May-2014)

[theknapps]

Still playing - still using.

Just need more time!!

[theknapps]

The link doesn't seem to be working..

[alexalsp]

The link to the corrected version does not work. Can someone post a corrected version. And the question is, does it all work in game version 3.4/3.3?

Thank you.

[alexalsp]

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Some further investigation yields the problem that in the script, plugin.LIFE.ship.signal.attacked, LIFE temporarily adds the ship to a special, hidden wing that it uses as a queue. That wing is used as a primary mechanism for communication between the scripting side and the mission director side (storing the list of ships that have been attacked and thus need to be processed).

After some finagling in the director script LIFE.Attacked.xml, it calls plugin.LIFE.mdcomms.queue on the ship, which removes the ship from the special queue wing and restores the previous wing membership. Unfortunately, removing a ship from a wing cancels its current order on task 0, the main task (engine bug maybe?).

Sadly, since that queue is pretty central to how the attacking signalling works in LIFE, I don't see a way to get around not having the wing.

So a workaround may be to not add non-race controlled ships to the queue in the first place. So, you can replace the line (around line 61) in plugin.LIFE.ship.signal.attacked.xml:

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$gAttacked-> temporarily remove from wing
add ship to flight wing: wing=$mdcommsQueue ship=$gAttacked

with

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* TechSY730 fix: Don't do special handling for special mission ships, since removing the wing later on interferes with current commands
if $gAttacked-> can be controlled by race logic
    $gAttacked-> temporarily remove from wing
    add ship to flight wing: wing=$mdcommsQueue ship=$gAttacked
end

This will make it so that ships that have been reserved for other purposes cannot get "co-opted". Race logic controlled ships are unchanged, as they have their main task restored by GOD periodically, so that is why it hasn't been an issue for those ships.

Sadly, this is a little overreaching and also turns off special LIFE handling for script spawned ships too that disable race logic, even if the script can handle it by having fallback "restart" logic. But I can't really see a way around that.

However, the above will also silence such mission ships from saying "I'm under attack". I'll provide a version that preserves as a follow up post, since it makes the code much longer.

A pilot of the EMC4AP Mod found out, that the X3 Khaak / Final Fury plot still has a problem in the scene, where the TL should place some mines. So I needed to add some other exceptions to the improvements of TechSY730:

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...
$gAttackedMoves2Position = $gAttacked-> is script '!ship.cmd.moveto.std' on stack of task=0
$gAttackedMovePosition = $gAttacked-> is script '!ship.cmd.moveposition.std' on stack of task=0
$gAttackedRetreat = $gAttacked-> is script '!ship.cmd.retreat.std' on stack of task=0
$gAttackedProtect = $gAttacked-> is script '!ship.cmd.protect.std' on stack of task=0
$gAttackedStay = $gAttacked-> is script '!ship.cmd.stay.std' on stack of task=0

$gAttackedMayBeMissionShip = !$gAttackedRaceLogicEnabled OR $gAttackedIsFollowingShip OR $gAttackedIsDeliveringFactory OR $gAttackedMoves2Position OR $gAttackedMovePosition OR $gAttackedRetreat OR $gAttackedProtect OR $gAttackedStay OR ($gAttackedNoJob AND ($gAttackedIsDocking OR $gAttackedIsAttacking))

if !$gAttackedMayBeMissionShip
$gAttacked-> temporarily remove from wing
add ship to flight wing: wing=$mdcommsQueue ship=$gAttacked
else
...

Eventually there are some other commands which need to be included in the exceptions, but for the moment this solves the TL position problem.

Bugfixed version can be found here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AleWkrAhnZL_g5hnKcf ... g?e=3YBQgi

Сan You re-upload the file, the link does not work .....

I would add it myself, but there are no lines where or instead of what to insert it.

[X2-Illuminatus]

Aldebaran_Prime mentioned in the EMC4AP topic that they would include the fixed file in the main download file of his mod. I don't know if they actually did it, but there's a chance since the 'last changed' date says 2022 while the post mentioning the fix is from 2021. Note that the file is quite big though (~ 1.5 GB).

Apart from that, TechSY730's download links still work fine for me. I reuploaded them just in case:

LIFE_Fixes by TechSY730.zip

[alexalsp]

Apart from that, TechSY730's download links still work fine for me. I reuploaded them just in case:

Thank you, thank you, thank you very much...

I think it is necessary to clarify that the LIFE.Attacked.xml file should not be located in the scripts folder, but in the director folder.

[alexalsp]

Question. If turn off the mod in the settings - Turn off LIFE completely, how do you turn it back on?

Correction. The mod seems to work, but there are no hot buttons. How to get them back?

I found a way through the script editor, but is there a faster and easier way?