This PR allows modders to set, on a per-ship class basis, the fields for what hull and shiled integrity the AI wingmen send the "Help" message at. One good use case is when ships have low hitpoints, thus now the modder can set AI can call for help sooner then at simply 30% hull.
Implements the feature request from issue #610.
As an aside, this PR also patches the `ship_set_subsystem_strength` function (which is only used by the debug console and in the event you fire at your training instructor) to use the same code as the `set-subystem-strength` sexp. This properly handles submodels blown off, sounds, etc.
Previosuly, flyby sounds were only specified on a per-species basis. This PR allows each ship class to use a specific flyby sound. This will allow modders to set the custom sound in ships.tbl, just like any other per-class sound.
This allows modders to restrict the amount of rotation in a death roll.
It's fairly simple to fit in with the existing code which has a lot of
hard coded constants. The intended use case is to restrict pitch &
heading changes so there's less chance of rapid forward rolls or flat
spins, especially with faster-than-FS2 ships.
I'd almost rather rewrite the entire code to dynamically use ships mass
& velocity except for retail compatibility issues.
This provides a cleaner fix for the bug where using show ship caused detail_box calculations to incorrectly work on the player's ship.
It also reverts the changes made by PR #2018.
This PR fixes issue #2015, which is a bug where using `show ship` caused detail_box calculations to incorrectly use world coordinates for submodels on the player's ship, rather then the correct local coordinates.
Switch from 3x specific is_arriving functions to a single with params
Change flag names; replace "ndl" with "dock_follower"
Change dock-arrival helpers to not set follower flag on leaders
There's a number of issues fixed here:
* Radar blips of docked ships were the wrong colour in stage 1
* You could target docked ships in stage 1
* Docked ships thrusters were visible in stage 1
* Hyperspace warptype ship could initially appear at their
warp-destination, then spring back to the correct location to complete
the rest of their warpin (because a docked ship had higher speed than
the dock leader)
There may also be a number of other subtle bugs with docked warpin;
e.g. I suspect (but haven't tested) that AI turrets could fire on
docked ships during warpin
These should also be fixed
Lastly, fixes issue #1867
The core bug fixed here is #1982. After ship_create sets up the ship, parse_object_create_sub does further initialization by copying some values from the parse object. In most cases there are sensible defaults, but a few special cases require some post-processing...
- ship sounds
- the new way of initializing warp effects to allow per-ship customization
- intrinsic-no-shields
- an arrival entry in the mission log
- script hooks
I also took a further look at normal ship creation and tweaked some things...
- initialize ai mode in ai_object_init
- remove redundant assigment of ship name from parse_object_create_sub (it's also done in ship_create)
- remove redundant goal clearing from parse_object_create_sub (it's also done in ai_clear_ship_goals via ship_create)
- avoid overwriting the initial ai mode if the fix-ai-class-bug flag is set
- make the code slightly more efficient by not redundantly setting flags while searching for subsystems
Every time an entry for a ship was parsed (e.g. every time it showed up in a .tbm), the selection effect would be reset to the default. Since it's already set to the default in the ship_info constructor, this was both redundant and would make it extremely difficult to actually use a selection effect other than the default without constantly setting it in every .tbm.
Since FRED and FS2 load mission data slightly differently, the warp effect loading code had to be slightly reorganized in order for the warp effects to not be based on invalid data. Additionally, the warp effects had to be initialized a little bit later so that it could accommodate a new set of warp parameters from the parse object. As a bonnus, this PR also handles warp effects being reassigned in change_ship_class.
Previously, these two SEXPs could only be used in single-player; now they can be used in multiplayer. (This now allows Admiral MS's ship save/load script to work in multiplayer too.)
Inspired by Parias's patch included in the FSPort Co-Op Mod Beta (https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=88385.0) though with some modifications.
precalculate warp values before beginning warp, and use them throughout the warp instead of recalculating in every function
standardize on always using the entire docked assembly for length and half-length calculation, instead of some places the assembly and some places just the dock leader
consolidate and simplify the compute_warpout* functions in light of the above
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