Text lines for AI command states

[solntcev]

Hello,

I am writing set of scripts for parsing save file and analyzing economy and ship statuses. As part of this I want to know where I can find which action represented by which line in text resources.

for example I think "commandaction.docking" is displayed in ship info as "Docking"
<page id="1011" title="AI Commands" descr="0" voice="no">
<t id="1008">Docking</t>

Where can I find all commands mapping to text?

[UniTrader]

shouldnt they be referenced in the {Text-Id,PageID} format, like for your example {1011,1008} ?

[euclid]

Hi solntcev

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Where can I find all commands mapping to text?

The pid 1011 covers all those commands. I'm not sure what else you are looking for.

Cheers Euclid

[solntcev]

shouldnt they be referenced in the {Text-Id,PageID} format, like for your example {1011,1008} ?

I have not found references to 1011 lines in this format in game XML files.
But somewhere they listed, because in game UI, they are translated.

The pid 1011 covers all those commands. I'm not sure what else you are looking for.

Yes, it covers, but I want fo find mapping table for "command" -> "1011 text line". I don't want to make it manually, in case new commands will appear in future updates.
But I suspect it may be hardcoded in game exe file

[lubatomy]

the mapping is the t-file.

if new ones get added, they show up in the t file

game engine only knows that if it sees "{xxxx,yyyy}" that it must go to t-file and find page-id xxxx and look for t-id yyyy under that and display the relevant text.

[solntcev]

Yes, but where exactly can I find, that "command.explore" action is displayed as {1011,27} in UI?

Where I can find list of ALL actions and their text lines?

[wysiwyg]

Commands are set using:

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<set_command command="command.freetrade" />
<set_command_action commandaction="commandaction.searchingtrades" />

As far as I know the t file interpretations are used exclusively in the UI as only the UI can display text that is meaningful to the player. The command status of a ship relates to its controlling npc and operates as a stack, so you will find code in the UI Lua files (now available as source in 3.50 b1) such as:

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-- Get userdata values for command stack from npc		
local aicommandstack, aicommand, aicommandparam, aicommandaction, aicommandactionparam = GetComponentData(npc_id, "aicommandstack", "aicommand", "aicommandparam", "aicommandaction", "aicommandactionparam")
local numaicommands = #aicommandstack
	if 0 < numaicommands then
		aicommand = aicommandstack[1].command
		aicommandparam = aicommandstack[1].param
	end
updatetext = tostring(updatetext .. "" .. ReadText(1001, 78) .. 
							ReadText(1001, 120) .. " " ..  
							string.format(aicommand, (IsComponentClass(aicommandparam, "component") and GetComponentData(aicommandparam, "name")) or nil))
if 1 < numaicommands then
	aicommandaction = aicommandstack[numaicommands].command
	aicommandactionparam = aicommandstack[numaicommands].param
end

if aicommandaction ~= "" then
	updatetext = tostring(updatetext .. " - " .. string.format(aicommandaction, (IsComponentClass(aicommandactionparam, "component") and GetComponentData(aicommandactionparam, "name")) or nil))
end

as an example of how to parse the command data and format it into a variable called "updatetext".
You can then write the variable into a cell in the UI or to the log book/debug log.

If you just want to set the command or know what the ship is doing in an AI script then the set_command, set_command_action functions and the command.action lookup properties for each npc commander are what you need - you can find all of these documented in /libraries/aiscripts.xsd. and scriptproperties.html in the root game folder.

Keep in mind also that you cannot display anything in the UI directly from AI scripts unless you write a UI (Lua) script that parses the data and writes it to a widget in the UI. The exception to this is that you can write directly to the logbook and also place help messages on the centre of the screen.

Hope this helps
Wysi

[YorrickVander]

Yes, but where exactly can I find, that "command.explore" action is displayed as {1011,27} in UI?

Where I can find list of ALL actions and their text lines?

Look in libraries/aiscripts.xsd for

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<xs:simpleType name="commandlookup">