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Offline T-Man

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Feature idea: Option to restore orders info for enemies
I was just checking out the new nightly today which fixed the no extra target info bug (Am I right it's 'Asarium' we have to thank? Huge thanks for that :yes:) and it made me think. When a ship is an enemy that information (such as it's current order or whether it is docking) is hidden from the player; How possible would it be to add a SEXP option for restoring the extra information? Thought it might suit a mission where the author wants to simulate enemy communications being hacked, or a force with good AWACS coverage, without having to fill the mission with messages.

I do see one issue with this idea is you'll get unusual extra information at times (for example, a lot of the ship manoeuvring in BP would likely show the ships as 'time to waypoints'). A nice additional feature if it's feasible would be an 'alt. order information' SEXP so you can tell it to put up a given different description when the ship is performing that action? So in the BP example you can say if a specific ship is following a specific waypoint path will instead put 'Attack Churchill' or 'advance on Meridian' etc.
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Offline Black Wolf

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Re: Feature idea: Option to restore orders info for enemies
This would also be really useful for determining why AI acts weird sometimes, if you could just select it and see what it's trying to do.
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Feature idea: Option to restore orders info for enemies
Axem's debug menu script lets you do this for debug/design purposes right now if you're just looking to use it in a dev capacity.

 

Offline Bryan See

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Re: Feature idea: Option to restore orders info for enemies
Where can I get this Axem debug menu that Battuta said?
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Offline niffiwan

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Re: Feature idea: Option to restore orders info for enemies
There's an option in the builtin debug console to show the targeted ships AI/orders. I can't remember the exact command though, something like display_target_info (??)
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