[New Mod] maneuvering thrusters

[Prophet]

Finally, a way to strafe and reverse thrust! Unfortunately, the thrusters take your launcher slot. There are 3 sizes of thrusters micro, medium and heavy freight.

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Updated @ 36 DLs June 2nd/10
The thrusters now have afterburners and the ammo use has been removed. I tried to balance them some more and added a autoDefense device that will shove the ship out of the path of incoming missiles.

[Song]

Heh. That's a little like the effect of my Hellfire cannon, which lobs your ship backwards as you fire it.

[alterecco]

This looks very interesting and innovative. How do I choose to fire a particular thruster? Mind you, I have only looked at the code, not tried it ingame. Am I right in assuming this would be so much better with freely bound keys?

[Prophet]

The onFireWeapon code checks which ammo you have selected and generates thrust appropriately. There are three ammo types: thrustLeft, thrustRight, thrustReverse. The ammo items are virtual and only exist to provide criteria for the event code to check. With custom keys this could be a misc device rather than taking up the launcher slot.

[alterecco]

George, can we please have free key binding?

[Jeoshua]

OMG! This is 90% of the way there to the most perfect mod ever made! The only way it could be made better is with virtual keys. GEORGE!!! PLZ?!

[george moromisato]

I think it's a great idea. I was planning on doing some simple key-mapping for 1.2, but maybe I can move that up to 1.1.

[alterecco]

Now that would be spectacular!

[digdug]

I think it's a great idea. I was planning on doing some simple key-mapping for 1.2, but maybe I can move that up to 1.1.

Yay!

[Vizth]

Finally, a way to strafe and reverse thrust! Unfortunately, the thrusters take your launcher slot. There are 3 sizes of thrusters micro, medium and heavy freight. They generate their own ammo which is used as the fuel.
I developed these as a mining assistance device but they were too much fun to hold onto.

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You bastard, I've been working on a mod like that over a month now. lol

Ok not exactly like mine, mine's supposed to be more like a dodge button. Mind if i use some of your code? Making them directional is what killed me. XD

[ptbptb]

I think everybody is going to die when the AI of enemy ships gets to do this.

[Song]

I think everybody is going to die when the AI of enemy ships gets to do this.

Yeah. You're on 5 armor, you've got 7 shots left on your thermo cannon....and your enemy strafes right and hits reverse thrust JUST as you loose those last few rounds.

[Prophet]

Ok not exactly like mine, mine's supposed to be more like a dodge button. Mind if i use some of your code? Making them directional is what killed me. XD

That's an awesome idea, please use whatever code you need. If you have any questions, just ask! In the case of making enemies dodge, perhaps something like an ICX auto defense device but have the weapon simply shove the ship sideways. It may mess with the AI a bit but it will mess with players more

[Jeoshua]

If anyone actually figures out how to make AI do this, it would make the game that much more awesome... of course, certain types of ships shouldn't have this ability at all.

[Atarlost]

Shouldn't be too hard. Get the relative vector to the target and thrust depending on the angle.