N1GH7H4WK

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I was just dreaming awake.
If we can force a ship to move from one point to another (starbases and drydocks), can we force a starbase to lose it's orbit and fall to a planet?
I think it's already done in the vesuvi6 facility, but not sure.
Would be a great CRASH in BC. (crash with the planet, and crash of the graphic engine. )

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I found it!!:

Code:

def AsteroidHitStation():    # Get the set and the station object    pSet      = App.g_kSetManager.GetSet("Vesuvi6")    pStation   = App.ShipClass_GetObject(pSet, "Facility")    if (pStation == None):       return           # If we're playing with the hard difficulty setting, have the    # station fall a little faster.    eDifficulty = App.Game_GetDifficulty()    if (eDifficulty == App.Game.HARD):       fSpeed = 1.7    else:       fSpeed = 1           # Send the station toward the Planet Location placement    pPlacement = App.PlacementObject_GetObject(pSet, "Planet Location")    vVelocity = pPlacement.GetWorldLocation()    vVelocity.Subtract(pStation.GetWorldLocation())    vVelocity.Unitize()    vVelocity.Scale(fSpeed)    pStation.SetVelocity(vVelocity)    # Do the sequence that will let the player know to tractor    # the station    StationHitSequence()

now, I have to debug and assemble it as a mod

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Make sure you set the "stationary" flag of the "ship properties" to 0 with SetStationary otherwise it wouldn't budge for a bit in memory.

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yes, i know.
but, isn't that property loaded directly from the hardpoint? I saw it in MPE.
Or do you mean toggling it just to play the falling sequence?
I'm still trying the App.ShipClass_Cast to get if the target is a station. Then I think I'll have to use an ET_ event, right?

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It is a hardpoint property. I don't remember whether it can be changed in-game. I do remember that space facilities, for some reason unknown to me, aren't stationary, so you can move them. I used to just load them into the game about 20 km away from a planet, then fire few salvos of torpedoes to get them moving at 200 kph. Boom.

And it didn't even crash my system, unlike when I used The Button of Last Resort to ram those bloody torpedo turrets.

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It can be changed ingame.

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Yes, but don't forget that I'm who is trying to make it, so consider the graphic crash...

however, is my theoric script right MLeo? using ShipClass_Cast and ET_OBJECT_EXPLODING to handle the event?

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N1GH7H4WK wrote:

Yes, but don't forget that I'm who is trying to make it, so consider the graphic crash... BTW, "stationary" means "no engines", not "freezed". You can move a small station with a torpedo charge or with the tractor beam. In fact, that's the last resource you have if an asteroid hits Vesuvi6's facility

In BC scripting it means: "Position frozen no matter what".

I shouldn't be to worried about a crash I think. NanoFX, that's what I'm worried about.

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The game crashed about 30% of the time on my craptop. It crashes on about 5% of ship destructions overall, though. It's not a very good PC. I would definitely be worried about NanoFX, but the only way to find out is to try it.

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