[S] Autoscan for Smugglers v1.0 21/1/2009

Yargol · Post by **Yargol** » Wed, 9. Dec 09, 13:15

Great script thank you, i love it!

Just one question. Is it intentional that - according to my experiences - the autoscan happens only when you are about 2.5km distance from the /any/ ship, while with the old "manual" method you can scan them under 4km?

Weresmilodon · Post by **Weresmilodon** » Wed, 9. Dec 09, 17:31

I don't have any experience with scripting, but a quick look in autoscan.scancargo.xml shows these lines

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014   ||$scan.range =  get freight scanner range
015   ||$ships =  find ship: sector=$sec class or type=null race=null flags=$flag refobj=[THIS] maxdist=$scan.range maxnum=20 refpos=null

Does this mean it gets the scanner range from the game? Max range is the same as in the game? If so, then what does the maxnum=20 mean?

A way to extend the range would be nice. I've used this for hour, and done five missions to look for smugglers, and I've yet to find even one.

superbun · Post by **superbun** » Wed, 9. Dec 09, 20:21

nice idea,

an idea for futer development would be to command a ship to patroll a sector and attemt to scan every ship and automaticly attack smugglers.

or give the order to an M5 and have it mark smuglers as hostile for other ships to destroy.

also, does the smuggler detection check if the ware is illiegal in the current sector?

Yargol · Post by **Yargol** » Wed, 9. Dec 09, 20:52

Indeed, after a bit of more testing it seems i was wrong. The scan seems to happen at scanner range /4km/, it's just the menu update that is lagging a bit i presume, and this confused me a little.

lordmuck · Post by **lordmuck** » Wed, 31. Mar 10, 10:59

I would like to increase the scan range please, could you tell us how?

I did try to increase 20 to 40 in your script but i think the range is being taken from some place else

Argonaught. · Post by **Argonaught.** » Wed, 31. Mar 10, 12:15

Manual scan ranges can be changed in Globals in the types folder.
not sure if the script uses that but you could try changing it and see.

These are the ones you need in Globals to alter for manual scanning:

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SG_SCANNER_RANGE_SHIP;5000000;     <-- no scanner on ship
SG_SCANNER_RANGE_SHIP_UPGRADE2;10000000;     <-- Duplex scanner on ship
SG_SCANNER_RANGE_SHIP_UPGRADE3;15000000;     <-- Triplex Scanner on ship
SG_SCANNER_RANGE_SATELLITE;11000000;     <-- Normal Nav satellite
SG_SCANNER_RANGE_SATELLITE2;17500000;     <-- Advanced Satellite
SG_SCANNER_RANGE_STATION;5000000;     <-- Scanner on Stations you own
SG_SCANNER_RANGE_ORBITALLASER;1250000;     <-- Laser Tower scanner?
SG_SCANNER_RANGE_FREIGHTSCANNER;2000000;     <-- Freight scanner, Increase this to expand manual scan ranges
SG_SCANNER_RANGE_SO_NEBULA;750000;     <-- Probably used when in Nebula, haven't a clue

Edit:

1km = 500000 game units
So 4km = 4*500000 = 2000000, which is freight scan range

HTH,

Argo.

lordmuck · Post by **lordmuck** » Wed, 31. Mar 10, 13:09

thank you for pointing me there, I will try this out

lordmuck · Post by **lordmuck** » Wed, 31. Mar 10, 13:35

i dont have this folder you told me about

Argonaught. · Post by **Argonaught.** » Wed, 31. Mar 10, 14:49

You'll need to unpack you game to find the types folder.

Info and program for doing that is here: X3 ModManager by doubleshadow

HTH

Argo

CrossBo · Post by **CrossBo** » Tue, 3. Aug 10, 22:24

Download links don't work.

Pyure · Post by **Pyure** » Wed, 4. Aug 10, 03:33

Agreed; I wanted to download this script as well, but links are bad. Even TSM's link doesn't work when you try to download the specific file.

xfir01 · Post by **xfir01** » Wed, 4. Aug 10, 03:41

Cheers, guys.

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Pyure · Post by **Pyure** » Wed, 4. Aug 10, 03:52

xfir01: You're a champ, this link is gold.

Addendum to my last post: I think something's wrong with x3terranconflict.filefront.com in general, not that specific file. I certainly can't download anything at any rate.

narhiril · Post by **narhiril** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 04:06

Pyure wrote:xfir01: You're a champ, this link is gold.

Addendum to my last post: I think something's wrong with x3terranconflict.filefront.com in general, not that specific file. I certainly can't download anything at any rate.

I am having this same problem with that site.

Fortunately, xfir01's link works.

Sniper101 · Post by **Sniper101** » Sun, 26. Sep 10, 18:56

link is on the blink again,.zip is faulty

nvm just change the .man to .spk

thx

Khaak_Slayer · Post by **Khaak_Slayer** » Mon, 3. Jan 11, 05:18

Thanks, xfir01

Peanutcat · Post by **Peanutcat** » Fri, 23. Dec 11, 20:26

None of the links work.. I'd love to have this mod.. Please fix them

EDIT

Thanks exfir!

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Fri, 23. Dec 11, 20:28

Have a look at the post 5 above yours.

Peanutcat · Post by **Peanutcat** » Fri, 23. Dec 11, 20:29

Yeah just noticed.. Silly me

Retiredman · Post by **Retiredman** » Mon, 16. Sep 13, 02:11

xfir01: You're a champ, this link is gold.

Again

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[S] Autoscan for Smugglers v1.0 21/1/2009