[Admiral MS]

Will it be possible to jump into first-person-mode of fighters/capital ships from the RTS-interface?

Now it is possible:

[Dragon]

Does it play nice with the Capship Command script?

[AdmiralRalwood]

Will it be possible to jump into first-person-mode of fighters/capital ships from the RTS-interface?

Now it is possible:
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Very cool stuff!

[666maslo666]

Could you implement other RTS mechanics, like building ships (ship-create) or extracting resources (metals from asteroids, hydrogen from nebulas..)?

[Admiral MS]

Does it play nice with the Capship Command script?

No idea - I never used any of the capship command scripts out there besides the one in BP cause it was part of the campaign
Unless you want to test it that won't happen anytime soon.

Could you implement other RTS mechanics, like building ships (ship-create) or extracting resources (metals from asteroids, hydrogen from nebulas..)?

Not within the next months. This would be a huge and complicated addition for internal management and interface. Freespace also doesn't like mass use of createShip and it prevents any meaningful use of FRED.

[Luis Dias]

Now that was awesome.

[Dragon]

Does it play nice with the Capship Command script?

No idea - I never used any of the capship command scripts out there besides the one in BP cause it was part of the campaign
Unless you want to test it that won't happen anytime soon.

Send the script over then, I'd be glad to test it with the updated CSC script. I've got to start doing FS stuff again, so it'll be a good start.

[wookieejedi]

Will it be possible to jump into first-person-mode of fighters/capital ships from the RTS-interface?

Now it is possible:

That is quite awesome. No...it's really, really super awesome. Any plans for a release?

[Admiral MS]

Any plans for a release?

The script itself is still missing some features I would like to add - nonetheless it could be released in its current state after some more testing and bugfixing. All major features are already implemented.
The problem is that I don't have any missions for it and I don't want to release it without at least a tutorial and a demo of what is possible. Now my FREDing skills aren't the best and currently I don't have the time to work on the script and missions. That's why I asked for people willing to help but there were no replies . As long as I'm working on this alone it'll take its time...

[mralexs]

Sorry for the necro, but has there been any progress on this? I don't want it to die 

[Admiral MS]

I was really busy with non FSO stuff and there was no progress for the last 2 months but it's not dead at all. It may take some time but there is a small campaign in the making and I hope I can get back to it when things settle down in the next few weeks.

In general the script is working and usable and if it gets stuck I can still release it as it is and just fix whatever bugs people find.

[Admiral MS]

Since I'm back home I also started working on this again.
It's mostly work on the capship AI now. I already fixed some problems in the movement system since FSO handles input for linear movement very different from rotations.

Getting a standalone version of the capship AI looks harder than expected as it is tied to many of the other RTS functions for AI handling. At the moment it acts automatically when a capship gets an order to attack another capship. I don't think that behaviour is good for any standalone version.

[wookieejedi]

I for one (though I don't think I am alone) am very excited to hear you are back to working on the capship AI!

[WorldsDawn]

@wookieejedi, No. You are not alone

Awesome, keep up the good work Admiral! o7

[Admiral MS]

Things are progressing slowly. For now I made something that should prevent friendly fire (with beams, slow travelling weapons may still hit something) based on a scripted collision check. That means if a turret shot will likely pass through a friendly ships' bounding box on the way to the targets' bounding box it won't fire.

Now the problem is that it needs to find alternative targets and check them again and so on. Also some kind of pathfinding for evading other caps would be nice but I have absolutely no idea how to achieve that technically and mathematically...

[wookieejedi]

Glad to hear about the progress! Preventing friendly fire from cap-ships would excellent and go a long way in making the cap ship behavior more realistic.

[mjn.mixael]

Admiral MS, are you still working on this at all? I starting playing around with mission ideas.. but the script is just too buggy currently.

[Admiral MS]

Just a little update on this: After a too long break I came back to the RTS script. It now has a better camera control that lets the player select one ship (or a group of ships), rotate around it and zoom while it follows the movement of said ship. Also all the other camera controls have been changed to be easier to use. Doesn't sound like much but it feels like a huge improvement compared to the old version.

Additionally I hope I can modularise the script in such a way that the capship AI can be run as a standalone with just some basic funcionality required.

[wookieejedi]

Just a little update on this: After a too long break I came back to the RTS script. It now has a better camera control that lets the player select one ship (or a group of ships), rotate around it and zoom while it follows the movement of said ship. Also all the other camera controls have been changed to be easier to use. Doesn't sound like much but it feels like a huge improvement compared to the old version.

Additionally I hope I can modularise the script in such a way that the capship AI can be run as a standalone with just some basic funcionality required.

Sounds awesome! I always really liked this project and it is great to see you are still working on it.

[AdmiralRalwood]

So when are we going to see a public release of something?