How not to replace things

speedofsquid · Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:57 pm

Is there a way to make minor changes to an entire non-player ship class without overriding it? For example, is there a way to equip a shield on every Centauri raider at/near creation, even if it was created as part of a random encounter?

Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:56 pm

the easiest way would be to just overwrite the ship in code, otherwise you would be looking at lots of code i would think

RPC · Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:00 pm

Yes, a very complicated way.
Make a virtual station, have it check for all centauri raider ships using a recurring timer event, and equip them with something like a class I deflector.
There's a trick to have them use different weapons (I don't know it, you'll have to ask digdug for it) , and 1.06a has a bug where if you change a ship's weapon to have a different range than the previous weapon, the game crashes.
Check out Weapons Extended for an example.

Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:38 am

Yeah. There is...but I find it easier to just over-ride stuff. You can control things better and there's less to go wrong. Unless you want a random element, when it can get a little annoying.

speedofsquid · Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:54 pm

Yeah, that's kind of what I was expecting. I was hoping that I overlooked something.

Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:06 pm

Is there a way to make minor changes to an entire non-player ship class without overriding it? For example, is there a way to equip a shield on every Centauri raider at/near creation, even if it was created as part of a random encounter?

yeah, basically Weapons Extended does that + it randomises the shield (and weapon and ammo). Unfortunately to do that in an efficient way you need quite a bit of code.

In your case, if you just want a centauri raider with a different shield, you can create an identical centauri raider with the shield of your choice, then just overwrite the shiptable tbCentauriEncounters and add your new ship. Every time the game creates a random centauri encounter, it will interrogate that table