[SCR] Follow me / Remember homebase + wingman (v8)

[Locksley]

Thank you Gazz, much apriciated.

[Spikend]

Thank you!

[Gazz]

Version 8 released.

If a player-flown fighter docks with a carrier, the auto supply feature of X3 does not work so ammo and missiles are not restocked. (This is an X3 issue, not a Gazz issue)
It always works if you use this script.


Just took another 2 lines of script so why not? =)

[DJSfinx]

Neat little script, thanks alot!

[Spikend]

Thanks Gazz!

[crimson522]

can this script be used with the Anarkis Defense System by serial kicked?

[valerria]

Great little script, but unfortunately the remember home base function no longer works as of 3.x.

[Gazz]

AFAIK, TC 3.0 didn't change the script language or the homebase property in any way.

It should work.

It might just take a little time to record the homebase setting of all your ships before it can work.

[wga]

How about the situation, From carrier jump to a fighter which is one of a wing, since the wing may have order, if player want to do something on that fighter, he need to remove that fighter from wing. Unless he want to set on that fighter and watch what it doing.

I have a carrier with about 10 fighters in a wing, after 'finish' big ships, I'd like to enter one fighter to kill the small ships, and the same time order the wing to protect me or attack my target. Then ... I need to remove the fighter from the wing. And now only have 9 fighters in a wing, one left for me to jump in.

Maybe this can be a switch for temporary let the fighter leave the wing, and when player go another ship, the fighter re join back the wing.

[dblade]

Just tried this mod out and like it.

Found the AL settings under Options->Gameplay->Artificial Life Settings


@wga I've dealt w/that too in that if fighter is part of a wing and you take control of it, but then give wing commands you will be forced into autopilot continuously.

What is interesting is that in the way Gazz described things in the OP is that it sounds like the game might have used to delete the wingman status. I haven't seen that happen (as of 3.0 anyway). Now I'm wondering if maybe a remove from wing call could be added so it's gone while we are in control and then wing status gets restored by the mod (as normal) when leaving the ship

EDIT: I misunderstood. The mod is maintaining the wingman for player setting for which, I just learned, ties in the Shift-6 and Shift-7 hotkeys.

EDIT2: Given the amount of wing commands I was able to add the changes need to save the wing name off and disband/restore wing membership accordingly. Did not worry about Formation leader as I typically do wing setups of all one ship type and then have that wing protect a ship on patrol (not part of the wing, but treated as the leader)

[Figge04]

Thanks for this, was getting very annoying. wasnt sure if it was me or the game

[onslow77]

Hello!

I have X3AP with XRM installed and am wondering if I shall put the contents from the "scripts" and "t" folder,

in:

.../X3 Terran Conflict/scripts
.../X3 Terran Conflict/t

or:

.../X3 Terran Conflict/addon/scripts
.../X3 Terran Conflict/addon/t

Regards
Martin

[X2-Illuminatus]

Files for X3AP always go into the "addon" directory.

[Daemonjax]

This is the 2nd most essential mod I use (Bounce being 1st place), so I just wanted to say thanks for such a great mod!

I made some modifications to it...
1) Fixed a bug in there...

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Assign.Old.Homebase:
gosub AddBounce:      <-- Bounce support
* $Home = $Ship-> get homebase     <-- this is wrong
$Home = $Playership.Old-> get homebase     <-- this is what it should be
$Home.Old = $Playership.Old-> get local variable: name=$VarName.Homebase
if not $Home-> exists
if $Home.Old-> exists
$Playership.Old-> set homebase to $Home.Old
end
end

$Is.Wingman = $Playership.Old-> get local variable: name=$VarName.Wingman
$Playership.Old-> set as player wingman: $Is.Wingman

gosub AddOldShipBackToWing:    <-- Wing support

endsub

2) Added support for Wings (when you switch into a ship that's in a Wing, you're fighting the autopilot constantly... hated that, so I fixed with some minor code additions to your mod).

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...
*   Player CHANGED SHIPS,  old and new ship exist
gosub Assign.Old.Homebase:
gosub MarkAndRemoveNewShipFromWing:     <--- Wing support
gosub Assign.Target:
...

MarkAndRemoveNewShipFromWing:
$Ship.new.is.in.wing = [PLAYERSHIP]-> get flight wing
[PLAYERSHIP]-> set local variable: name=$VarName.flightWing value=$Ship.new.is.in.wing

do if $Ship.new.is.in.wing
[PLAYERSHIP]-> remove from flight wing

endsub

AddOldShipBackToWing:
$Is.inWing = $Playership.Old-> get local variable: name=$VarName.flightWing

do if $Is.inWing
$Playership.Old-> add to flight wing: wing=$Is.inWing

endsub

3) Added support for Bounce (so when you switch ships, Bounce is re-added to your old ship automatically).

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AddBounce:
* adds bounce to old ship when player changes ships, undocks from carrier, or ejects
if get global variable: name=$Key.LitQB.Bounce.OnOff
skip if $Playership.Old-> is script 'Lib.Cmd.Bounce.Check' on stack of task=323
$Playership.Old-> begin task 323 with script 'Lib.Cmd.Bounce.Check' and priority 10: arg1=null arg2=null arg3=null arg4=null arg5=null
end

endsub

4) Doubled the wait time in the ship scan loop, and decreased the fake modulo check from 25 iterations to 20 -- because I don't really care if it takes an extra second every 5 minutes.
5) Removed the 1 ms wait before the ship scan loop -- I don't see why it's needed and couldn't a 1 ms wait cause unnecessary context switching? It hasn't done any real work at that point yet. Probably doesn't matter either way tbh.