Some Modding Questions

[FAD]

1) Does (sysCreateShip ... have to have a ship class name such as scAutoSentinel, or is it possible to do something like this;

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(setq newShip (shpGetClass ship)
(sysCreateShip newShip gSource) &svIndependent;)

Assuming "ship" has been targeted and setq'd as well.

2) When using (shpGetClass ship) on a targeted abandoned/wrecked ship, will it return the UNID of the wreck itself (stShipwreck) or the UNID of the ship class that it had before it was destroyed..or just return Nil?

[george moromisato]

1. Yes, that's totally possible. With fixed parens:

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(setq newShip 
   (sysCreateShip (shpGetClass ship) gSource &svIndependent;)
   )

2. Using shpGetClass on a wreck returns Nil. [Or it might crash if I failed to handle that case properly.]

[FAD]

Thanks, George, Answer to #1 really helps a lot.

As for #2, I ran some tests today and it did return Nil, no crash.

So, whenever you kill AI ships does their UNID automatically change to stShipwreck with no option to get their original ship class UNID afterward?

I think it would be cool if you could, with something like objGetShipwreckClassUNID...or something like that.

[Betelgeuse]

did you try the shpGetClass function?
I know for items equipped devices are not the same as non equipped devices but they still have the same UNID.

[FAD]

Yes, I tried shpGetClass on newly wrecked ships and it returns Nil, which is why I was wondering if the UNID gets changed (along with the wrecked ship image) whenever a ship gets killed.

[Betelgeuse]

can you get static data from the wrecked ship?
if you can store the UNID in that (a bit brute force but still)

edit: ok just tried it, it crashes the game

we need a way of getting these wrecked space objects

[FAD]

I'm thinking that a wrecked ship gets treated like a station instead of a ship class upon a kill. Hence: stShipwreck -vs- scHornet, where st=station and sc=ship class?

George would have to answer this one.

Although I have noticed that if you target a wrecked ship, say a Hornet for example, it will state; Hornet-class battlepod wreck. Interesting, as that does suggest a UNID change while still retaining the ship class information.