How do I make a device that...

[BienM]

...allows me to spawn a ship, of which kind, choose the amount of ships spawned, and if it is hostile or not.

[digdug]

put in the <Invoke> of the device a sysCreateShip function.
SysCreateShip is flexible enough to choose the location, sovereign and eventually the controller of the ships spawned.

Here the syntax on how to use the function:
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=functions&function=249

[BienM]

Do you have an example? Because I'm still stumped on how to use it.

[evilbob]

you mean like this:


this code spawns a wingman ship for the player, on top of them. It also requires a device with "hangar" as a modifier

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		(switch
				; If we don't have a Hangar
				(not (objGetItems gSource "*I+Hangar"))
					(objSendMessage gSource Nil "Hardware not avaliable")
					
				; If we don't have enough credits
					(setq gCost 50)
					
					(switch
									(gr gCost (plyGetCredits gPlayer))
					(objSendMessage gSource Nil "Resources not avaliable")
			
				(block (ship)

					(setq ship (sysCreateShip &scWasp; gPlayerShip &svCommonwealth; "fleet"))
					(shpOrderEscort ship gPlayerShip 15)
				)
				
				(plyCredit gPlayer -50))
				
								; Identify the item
				(itmSetKnown gItem))
		</Invoke>