[SCRIPT] Player Workshops V2.0 [28.07.2009]

[Bobisback]

is there anyway to easliy add support for other equipment that is added by other mods? like MARS, mefos, travel drive?

P.S nevermind I figured out how to add them I am happy

great mod makes life so much easier thanks

[jiunejai]

Could anyone teach me how to add new equipment in the setting menu?
I edit plugin.pelador.workshop.ref, but seems not work

EDIT:
I have solved it!

The following are steps to add new equipment into menu:

1. Edit "plugin.pelador.workshop.ref". Add a line for new equipment into $equipment array, you can copy existing one then edit, or insert a new one by yourself.

code form is $equipment [ array number ] = equipment.name

i.e.:


Code:

$equipment [ 32 ] = MARS - Motion Analysis& Relay System

2. In same script file, edit $include array. To avoid error, give argument for controlling include or not.

code form is $include [ array number ] = 0/1,
notice that 1=include, 0=disinclude.

i.e.:


Code:

$include [ 32 ] = 0

3. Edit $no.equipment with "lastest array number +1".

The argument $no.equipment should be found in first 10 lines of follow script files:

plugin.pelador.player.workshop
plugin.pelador.workshop.cfg
plugin.pelador.workshop.ref

[Andyrids]

Hi great script !

I have been trying to add the functionality to M6 class (Hyperion) without much success I added :

[Andyrids]

Well so far I got it to work on existing M6 & M7's BUT if you spawn a new one or even a new TL or M1 then the "workshop" command is greyed out...

This is what I have so far :

[Andyrids]

Still struggling to get this to work properly, I have been studying <sval> types and values in other scripts that deal with player ships and see similarities but blindly changing the values as one would expect has random catastrophic results at times...

A few pointers / help would be much appreciated guys please

[NovaStark]

ohhhhhh... I had forgotten about this little beauty of a script. Equipping new ships with tunings and software is the bane of my existence. So setting this up asap.

@Andyrids I'm not a scripting wiz when it comes to X3 but if you have it working on existing ships than maybe what is missing is a variable being set on new ships? As in there's a script that runs in the background searching for new player ships at a certain interval (or uses an event/callback) to set this variable based on the criteria you've been modifying?

Anyhow this is just a guess as it would seem simple to check for a variable as each ship docked rather than run it against an array of allowed ships at every single docking.

To put it simply check once and never again. Ships don't usually change classes once created

*edit*
@jiunejai - Thanks for posting your changes! Saved me some time and headache. Just made them myself and it seems to work beautifully. Just a note to anyone else you may have to save/quit/reload to get everything in sync. Before I did I was able to add Mars to a install set but adding the set didn't install Mars and Mars didn't show up in the regular equipment list.

*edit2*

[Andyrids]

Hi NovaStark.... Yes the Hyperion is in TC and the plan was to get this script to work with that ship and also the Griffin... But since I could only get it working with existing ships I decided to delete my version of the script, revert back to the original one and just change ship class to M2 for those two ships...

But you are correct it is just some variable / flag that I am missing upon a new ship of the above mentioned spawning.

[DrBullwinkle]

[Andyrids]

[X2-Illuminatus]

[Andyrids]

[X2-Illuminatus]

It somehow amuses me that someone, who built UIs himself, refuses to use one with the explanation that using it would require "hours of learning". But hey, it's your decision. If you want to take the hardest way, feel free to do so. But then, please don't complain that it's difficult or that no one wants to help you.

Anyway, being a rocket scientist myself - thanks for noticing it - I was able to complete this task (allowing M6 ships to be used with this script) by simply doing, what you did, just in the Script Editor.

In case you're still interested in it: Download of plugin.pelador.player.dock.chk.xml over file-upload.net. Download and copy it to the "scripts"-folder of your game directory, so it replaces the existing file. Start the game/load a save and "Allow workshops to be used on ships" in the config menu.

[Andyrids]

[NovaStark]

Well, I can kinda understand where he's coming from a bit. When it comes to editing traditional code/html/etc I too prefer to use a text editor (like notepad++). But seeing as X3 has it's own scripting language and encodes the resulting files as XML it's much easier imo to just use the builtin editor.

Maybe if I was *very* familiar with all the commands and syntax I would use a text editor too, but as I'm a noob I wouldn't dare. Besides, even when coding in a traditional language it's sometimes nice to jump into an IDE to handle large projects or debugging. I guess it boils down to choosing the right tool for the job really.

[DrBullwinkle]