[SCR] Align ship with ecliptic

[Gazz]

(Das entsprechende deutsche Topic ist hier)


Many spacefighterflygames have a key to align your ship with "the plane".
True 3D is very hard to display on 2D screens so most games (including X3) use basically flat sectors.

Manual Operation:

• This script provides 1 Hotkey.
  
  
• Allowed Targets:
  If you have one of your own objects targeted then this one will be rotated.
  If not, your own ship will be rotated.
  
  
• Press Hotkey 1x:
  Ship is rotated and aligned with the plane of the ecliptic.
  
  
• Press Hotkey 2x within 3 sec:
  Ship is rotated, aligned with the plane of the ecliptic, and turned "north".
  
  
• Press Hotkey 3x within 3 sec:
  Blahblah . . . "east".
  
  
• Press Hotkey 4x within 3 sec:
  Blahblah . . . "south".
  
  
• Press Hotkey 5x within 3 sec:
  Blahblah . . . "west".
  
  
• Stuff:
  
  • This script can be interrupted at any time with manual ship control or an autopilot command.
    
    
  • Stations do not have autopilot commands so you can not interrupt the script for them. If they appear to lock up you should leave the sector and let the script complete.
    
    
  • The turning speeds are roughly equal to the normal turning speeds of the ships.
    
    
  • It's nice if you can properly arrange your fleet for a screenshot or just don't want to fly upside down. =)
    
    
  • If you rotate or position stations it can be pretty useful if you can normalize the orientation of your own ship.

Automatic Operation:

• With an AL Plugin you can set this to run automatically and how often.
  
  
• As long as you or the Autopilot control the ship, nothing unusual happens.
  
  
• After (setting) seconds of inactivity the playership will be rotated to the default orientation.
  
  If the speed = 0 then it will also be aligned with the plane of ecliptic.
  
  
• That way I can conveniently fly my ship from the sector map because the controls are never reversed.

ZIP

Resources used:
1 Hotkey
AL Plugin

Disclaimer:
Rotating objects in the vicinity of other objects may be hazardous to their health. Gazz cannot be held liable for any loss arising directly or indirectly from the use of, or any action taken in reliance on this script.

[Khaak_Slayer]

Thank you very much, this will come very much in handy!

[corhen]

ok, it works ok.

it seems slow, is there a way to have it maneuver quicker?

And the voice is... edgy. Isn't the default voice generated? and if not, maybe have multiple voices (a deeper one, one more intone with the game)

[Enders Wood]

Hi

I love your script !!! ... hum... in fact, I whant to love it ^^ but I simply don't found how to use it

I look for all Hotkey unasigned, and nothing, I definitly can't found where to set the key

and I even don't know if I realy add the script.... the installer must do everything fine, many other scripts works even with my French game , but don't know why this one dont...

in other hand, how can we set it as automatic ?

thanks

[Gazz]

[OTAS Employee]

[Enders Wood]

as I have specify, I have many other mod running so yes, Theresallbewings already done, but not sure this is what you call script editor

found the AL Plugins.... where I have :

Bounty EnhancementOff (too many gold gain lol)
MARS : Not available for AI Ships - v408 (don't know what is it/..)
MARS : BlablaBla
MARS :BlablaBla
MARS :BlablaBla

.... and that's all...nothing about Align...

I have delete and readd the script with the plugin manager... and copy/past files from zip too, to be sure....

I'm sure files are where they must be... but still don't found how to make it work :'(

[Gazz]

If scripts don't show up even though they should, maybe you downloaded the Reunion version.

There are 2 download pages.

[Enders Wood]

[crimsonhaze]

Thanks, this mod works great! Great tool for idle capital ships, so you can order them to point their turrets at enemy direction. Works well with MARS.

[Gazz]

Heh. That's a use I never thought of but yes - you can remote control your other ships to some degree. =)

[klaatu]

Strange...sometimes this script works for me and other times it doesn't. Sometimes I can press the hotkey and my ship will align with the ecliptic, or turn a direction if pressed multiple times, so it's working. But other times I press the hotkey and absolutely nothing happens. I can press the hotkey multiple times and it says "North", "East", etc. but the ship doesn't change orientation at all. I even tried manually re orientating the ship in case it was already aligned, but still nothing. I'm not absolutely sure, but it seems to start working again at some point, and I'm thinking it's when I change sectors.

Like I said, strange. Oh well, when it works it works well at least. Thanks for that.

[Gazz]

[klaatu]

Yep, could be. Re-reading the description, I wonder if I might have had another of my ships or stations targeted. I suppose I could have been moving one of my own stations around and not even known it! LOL.

[Loky77]

Great script and nice piece of code !!

May i use it in one of my script conversion ? ( i will only use the rotating part of the code )

Regards