[SCR] Missile Safety (v1.12)

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 13:25

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Missile Safety

This script is compatible with TC and AP.
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.
In X3:AP, this script can be enabled for the AI as well.
Copy the contents of the scripts\X3AP_Missile_Safety_AI folder into \scripts\.
In the long run this is only going to work with Steam in Offline mode (or with updates disabled for AP) because it is necessary to overwrite vanilla files... which Steam would "fix" again.

For scripters:
To use Missile Safety for any AI ship, insert one script call before the actual launch instruction.

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

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[ external image ] Download: ZIP

Installation
Copy the contents of the zip into the X3_TC folder
or in the case of X3:AP, into ... \Steam\SteamApps\common\x3 terran conflict\addon

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 · Post by **Gazz** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 13:25

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argon_emperor · Post by **argon_emperor** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 13:57

Sounds good, will give it a spin tonight.

Lancefighter · Post by **Lancefighter** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 22:05

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 · Post by **Gazz** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 00:00

Lancefighter wrote: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?

Hahaha!
Since AL plugins already have a library structure this single script runs in 3 different ways in 3 different places/tasks.
Up to 2 of them run on the playership...

Lancefighter · Post by **Lancefighter** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 00:03

erm.

Ill take your word that it will work then

LV · Post by LV » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 00:18

Lancefighter wrote:(whats a good out of game editor type thing for x3tc files?)

to view the best thing is firefox or ie as long as the script is in the same folder as the x2script.xsl found in your scripts folder ( i have a temp folder with that file in to view scripts while keeping them away from the game directory)

to edit, the script editor, unless i've missed something seriously major there is no stable standalone editor, alterations via the script editor are the only way i know of

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 00:33

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 · Post by **pelador** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 00:40

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

Fightin 501st · Post by **Fightin 501st** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 10:34

[angelic choir]alleuiaaaaaaaaa[/angelic choir]

INSTG8R · Post by **INSTG8R** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 17:32

Fightin 501st wrote:[angelic choir]alleuiaaaaaaaaa[/angelic choir]

Amen to that!

Thanks so much Gazz for making this Script!!!

adecoy · Post by **adecoy** » Mon, 27. Apr 09, 20:18

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

Predator02 · Post by **Predator02** » Mon, 27. Apr 09, 23:39

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

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Sat, 16. May 09, 17:38

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 · Post by **aka1nas** » Mon, 18. May 09, 00:28

Gazz wrote: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.

Woohooo! Can't wait until it's ready! Is that going to be a part of your OOS redux?

TSM · Post by **TSM** » Mon, 19. Oct 09, 21:34

Gazz excellent job as usual,only realised how much I needed this when I fired a hurricane and it blew up right next to me and forced change of underwear

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Tue, 20. Oct 09, 11:24

I'm not going to rename it to Underwear Safety, though.

aka1nas wrote:Woohooo! Can't wait until it's ready! Is that going to be a part of your OOS redux?

There is no direct connection but for the OOS Rebalance I had to rewrite the stock ES scripts anyway so I placed the hooks for this one while I was there.
If MS is installed as well, AI ships (including yours) should then make use of it.

aka1nas · Post by **aka1nas** » Wed, 21. Oct 09, 02:16

Crap, it's been working on AI ships all this time(I've been running both scripts for a while now)?! I'll have to go and watch them, I didn't notice.

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Wed, 21. Oct 09, 12:26

If AI ships don't spontaneously combust for no apparent reason then it's probably working.

aka1nas · Post by **aka1nas** » Thu, 22. Oct 09, 04:26

Gazz wrote:If AI ships don't spontaneously combust for no apparent reason then it's probably working.

A good point. I've been running CODEA pretty heavily as well, which takes over the missile launching for it's fighters, so my ships tend not to even fire missiles when enemies are very close.