[festivefire]

Is it possible to script an custom key command that will spawn a viper pilot outside of your vessel and switch it to the player vessel, for ejects in missions?

[MatthTheGeek]

Sure is. key-pressed to capture key input, change-ship to change player ship to viper pilot, ship-create to re-create your viper that you just switched from.

[festivefire]

cool, thanks! time to fred! if i can get a test eject working that i like, ill upload it.

[festivefire]

actual i just realized i can dock a seat inside the cockpit of hte viper, so is there a way to change which active ship is the player? that way i can just switch focus to the seat and undock it with an upwards velocity. i kinda think this would look better than if you changed the ship to a ejected seat and spawned a new viper.

[General Battuta]

There is no way to do that.

[General Battuta]

The change-ship-class idea Matth proposed will work wonderfully though!

[festivefire]

i will build matth's, but i would like to try both if the other is possible.

[General Battuta]

It isn't.

[festivefire]

IDEA! i can just dock a new viper to the pilot after changing the player to a pilot so it looks like you are shooting out of the cockpit

[karajorma]

If you're FREDding ejection as a mission specific plot point, what you're doing so far sounds great. If you want to include the ability to eject in all your missions, read this to see why we didn't do it.

[festivefire]

i already read that thread and i get why you didnt' include it, but i think i am only going to unlock the key control if your craft goes critical, and you still die if an evac raptor doesn't pick you up before mission end. you can also still fail the mission if your wingmen can't complete enough objectives, so its not an instant mission win.

[karajorma]

Just wanted to make sure you knew the potential pitfalls. Have fun.

[festivefire]

thank you, i will 
EDIT: i am having trouble with the name of the new viper. any time i try to save the mission i get an error telling me that the name of the viper is causing a problem, however the mission runs fine as long as you run it in debug mode. does FRED not realize i am creating a new ship and just assume the ship name doesn't exist?

the event:


the error:


EDIT: changed the photos to imgur links, they should work now.

[MatthTheGeek]

I don't see neither the event nor the error. Can you post a debug log ?

[karajorma]

The site you've uploaded it to won't give us permission to view the images.

[festivefire]

Sorry I will fix that when I get home.
EDIT: fixed it during Spanish class.

[festivefire]

bump. still need some help please.

[karajorma]

I'm guessing FRED doesn't like the name containing Alpha 1. Do you have to use that name?

[festivefire]

no, ill try just using splash1, to signify a crashed or abandoned viper.
EDIT: nope, that didn't work, now i get the same error for splash1
EDIT again:
this is the error i get when i run the mission ingame, if this helps anyboy:

Code: [Select]

Invalid point.

In sexpression: ( when
   ( key-pressed "\" )
   ( change-ship-class
      "Viper Pilot"
      "Alpha 1"
   )
   ( ship-create
      "splash1"
      "Viper Mark VII"
      0
      0
      0
   )
   ( set-object-position
      "splash1"
      ( get-object-x "Alpha 1" )
      ( - ( get-object-y "Alpha 1" ) 5 )
      ( get-object-z "Alpha 1" )
   )
   ( set-object-speed-y "Alpha 1" 25 )
)
(Error appears to be: splash1)
KERNELBASE.dll! ReleaseMutex + 91 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObjectEx + 67 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
FS2_Open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
FS2_Open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
i did run it in debug, but the event.log only  said mission loaded, so the mission runs fine, it just doesn't want to load the event.

[General Battuta]

If you ship-create a ship I believe you'll need to store its name as a var or argument, then reference that var or argument rather than the name directly.