[X3 Script] Lasertower Array [2.0.01 compatible Upgrade]

[euclid]

Lasertower Array (download)
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New Version - 2.0.01 compatible !!!

New features:

#1 Lasertowers now come automatically with 125 MJ shields: As part of the 2.0.01 Update all purchased or produced Lasertowers have 125 MJ shields. There is no need anymore to upgrade the shields from 25 MJ to 125 MJ.

#2 Remote placement: You do not need to be in the same sector anymore. The position of the Lasertowerarray is no longer determined by the player's ship. Instead just select a sector and within a position using numpad 2,4,6,8.

#3 Names for yout LT's are generated: As an additional user input a 'name' is requirered. All 30 Lasertowers are then named as 'name'0 to 'name'29.




Installation:

Copy the setup.lasertowerarray.xml and the lasertowerarray.xml into the 'scripts' folder of your 'X3' folder, and copy the 447003.xml into the 't' folder.



Usage:

You'll find a new ship special command. Click that then select sector/position, radius in metres of the circle of lasertowers (3000 is a good value, don't make it too small), select the orientation (0 for xy plane, 1 for yz plane and 2 for xz plane) and finally choose a name (for example 'Laser Southgate' will name your LT's 'Laser Southgate0' to 'Laser Southgate29').



Enjoy !


Cheers Euclid

[Skillers]

Cool. Would be really good if you could select an object as the centre of the ring, like a station, though I guess you can get roung that by moving really close to the station then running it (just don't crash).

I can't wait to be able to afford building a tunnel out of an important gate...

[bengoin]

looking forward to this

[bendyspex]

Sounds great, this will help a lot in protecting my stations and gates. Thanks

[bengoin]

what would be a good number to add the the radius?

[djssuk]

Sounds great.

How about the player specifying the X number of lazer towers and then a point on the map, the radius then calculates X distance bewteewn each one? Just some ideas.

By the way, the link seems to fail at the moment. I will try later.

Thanks

[euclid]

[Cycrow]

[euclid]

[Cycrow]

yeah scripts work the same way as multithreading does
they appear to run simultaneous, but in actual fact, only 1 thread is being process at any given time.

so when u have a script running, no other scripts will get processed until that script has finished, and if it takes long to finish the game cant be updated which gives you the temporary freezing, to solve this, you have interrupts, which will alow the game engine to carry on updating without blocking, so when the script reaches an interupt, more of the game gets process then it returns back this scripts and continues

so even a short wait will allow other scripts and the game engine to inturupt when it needs to process something else, which prevents the freezing.

[RRRoamer]

Actually, to be more specific, scripts run the same way a coopertive multitasking does.

[euclid]

In this case, wouldn't it be wise to use random waits rather than fixed values?

I think wait randomly between .... ms and ..... ms would reduce the probability to have no time gap at all.

This could happen if a large number of scripts are running using fixed wait states. Could explain some lag/freezing/ctd problems.

Cheers Euclid

[ericbab]

May, i Just State that you guys are GOds Among men, using the math leant yesterday, ToDAY!

[BlueSwede]

Exactly how does I check I have any scripts that use "command_special_23 with tid 523"?

I checked that I didn't have any text file 447003 in my t folder

[euclid]