[SCR] Missile Safety (v1.05)

[Gazz]

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Missile Safety

• Especially when flying a fighter it is not uncommon that missiles that you launch are immediately destroyed by enemy fire - or by your own cockpit guns / turrets.
  
  
• This script provides a missile safety so the warheads are armed after the missile is at least 200m clear of your ship.
  
  Note that this is not foolproof. A lucky shot can still detonate a missile even if the warhead isn't armed.
  (Firing at warheads is neither safe nor recommended by the manufacturer)
  
  
• This only affects missiles that
  • are launched by the playership
    
  • have a target
    
  • are of the type that is selected as current missile in the cockpit
  
  
• The missiles do not have to be launched manually as long as they meet the aforementioned conditions and are launched at the current cockpit target.
  Scripts like Missile Barrage or MEDUSA could make use of this.
  
  
• This ignores missiles fired by huge ships (M1, M7M...) because these simply do not have the problem of missiles instantly being destroyed on launch.
  It is a fighter issue.
  And I wanted to exclude massive missile barrages. =)
  
  
• This is an AL plugin. It can be turned on/off under Gameplay / AL Plugins.
  
  
• For scripters:
  To use Missile Safety for any AI ship, insert one script call before the actual launch instruction.
  
  

  Code:

  020 skip if not get global variable: name='GZ.MSL.SAFETY' 021    @ = [THIS] -> call script 'al.plugin.gz.missile.safety' :  plugin ID=null  plugin event='launch'  Missile launched=$Missile  Target Old=$Target 022   = [THIS] -> fire missile $Missile on $Target

  
  
  

How To Use AL Plugins

Download: ZIP


Installation
Copy the contents of the zip into TC/scripts


Deinstallation

• Turn off the AL plugin under Gameplay / AL Plugins.
  
• Save.
  
• Delete TC\scripts\al.plugin.gz.missile.safety.xml

Resources used:
Task ID 47050 and 57050 on the playership.

[Gazz]

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[argon_emperor]

Sounds good, will give it a spin tonight.

[Lancefighter]

a question from a technical standpoint:

its an AL plugin...
I was under the impression those are only run every 1 minute at most, yet i assume it works on missiles as soon as they launch

So erm how does it actually work?

I tried to take a look at the file but it makes no sense in notepad2 or the ms xml editor...
(whats a good out of game editor type thing for x3tc files?)

[Gazz]

[Lancefighter]

erm.

Ill take your word that it will work then

[LV]

[Gazz]

Just follow the tasks...
At the Work: part it starts spawning into different places and it eventually runs on 3 different timers simultaneously.

Sure, I could have split it into 3 scripts but since AL plugins are already perfectly suited to act as their own library I just wrapped it all in one.

Since it's a very small project (1-2 pages of script per task) there was no danger of losing track of things. In fact I wrote it, turned it on, and it worked...
It's really very simple once you acquire the proper multiple schizophrenia.

[pelador]

Exscriptor - works well as an external editor (so far I have found it to be relatively stable)

[Fightin 501st]

[angelic choir]alleuiaaaaaaaaa[/angelic choir]

[INSTG8R]

[adecoy]

thanks for this! no longer will i be afraid to use missiles!

[Predator02]

This is a wonderful script, especially with heavy explosive torpedoes.

[Gazz]

Version 1.05 released.

Prepared script to be used by AI ships.

They will not actually make use of it until the script call is tied into the fight scripts.

[aka1nas]