[Turey]

Could someone post an example of how the table entry is supposed to look when it works? It's not working for me with this:

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$Thruster:
+Index: 1
+Used for: ( "Slide right" )
+Position: ( 10 0 0 )
+Normal: ( 1 0 0 )
+Texture: beam-green2
+Radius: 20
+Length: 70
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132

also, do maneuvering thrusters require anything other than that entry in the ship table?

[RazorsKiss]

That's something I'd love to see, too

[Wanderer]

Does debug say anything?

Also try starting with index 0 instead of 1.

[Turey]

Does debug say anything?

Also try starting with index 0 instead of 1.

Debug screams about the index no matter what number I put in there.

Standard simply doesn't show the thruster.

EDIT: Does anyone know what the index is used for?

EDIT2: alright, i read through ship.cpp, and i fiound out that I can bypass the index check by setting it to -1.
However, this makes me feel uncomfortable, so i'd still like help with this.

[Wanderer]

What build are you using?  Manouvering thrusters - in their current form - are a very recent addition

[Backslash]

Hmm... from what I can see you're doing it right.  Probably not a build thing; maneuvering thrusters have been in the code since April or so and haven't changed much since then.  Odd about the index -- my test modular tables doesn't even have the index line and it works fine.  Good thinking with the index check.  Lemme dig into the code a bit...

Well it's a little confusing, but it may well be a bug.  As far as I understand this area of the code, it looks like index is tested against ship->num_maneuvering, but I can't see where num_maneuvering gets set.  So if you specify an index, num_maneuvering never goes above 0, but if you don't specify an index, it works as expected.

So I guess we need to drag WMCoolmon or somebody in here, somebody more familiar with this section than me anyway   We'll have narrowed the problem down for them at least.  But for now I think you can skip the +Index line entirely.

[Wanderer]

I got those working by dropping index to -1... also note the typo i made while writing the wiki entry.. (+Length:)

EDIT: I noticed the same issue with the num_maneuvering.. and looking at the code decided it might be worth trying to set the index to -1... Perhaps the index value is only for making changes with modular tables to already existing maneuvering thrusters...

[Turey]

The following thrusters seem to cause an intermittent freeze:

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$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;1 Back Center Right
+Used for: ( "Forward" "Pitch up" "Pitch down" )
+Position: ( 5.5 0 -1 )
+Normal: ( .5 0 -.5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;2 Back Center Left
+Used for: ( "Forward" "Pitch up" "Pitch down" )
+Position: ( -5.5 0 -1 )
+Normal: ( -.5 0 -.5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;3 Back Top Right
+Used for: ( "Forward" "Bank right" "Slide down" "Slide left" "Pitch up" )
+Position: ( 5.5 .75 -1 )
+Normal: ( .5 .25 -.5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;4 Back Top Left
+Used for: ( "Forward" "Bank left" "Slide down" "Slide right" "Pitch up" )
+Position: ( -5.5 .75 -1 )
+Normal: ( -.5 .25 -.5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;5 Back Bottom Right
+Used for: ( "Forward" "Bank left" "Slide up" "Slide left" "Pitch down" )
+Position: ( 5.5 -.75 -1 )
+Normal: ( .5 -.25 -.5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;6 Back Bottom Left
+Used for: ( "Forward" "Bank right" "Slide up" "Slide right" "Pitch down" )
+Position: ( -5.5 -.75 -1 )
+Normal: ( -.5 -.25 -.5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;7 Front Top Right
+Used for: ( "Reverse" "Bank right" "Slide down" "Slide left" "Pitch down" )
+Position: ( 5.5 .75 1 )
+Normal: ( .5 .25 .5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;8 Front Top Left
+Used for: ( "Reverse" "Bank left" "Slide down" "Slide right" "Pitch down" )
+Position: ( -5.5 .75 1 )
+Normal: ( -.5 .25 .5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;9 Front Bottom Right
+Used for: ( "Reverse" "Bank left" "Slide up" "Slide left" "Pitch up" )
+Position: ( 5.5 -.75 1 )
+Normal: ( .5 -.25 .5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132
$Thruster:
; +index: -1 ;10 Front Bottom Left
+Used for: ( "Reverse" "Bank right" "Slide up" "Slide right" "Pitch up" )
+Position: ( -5.5 -.75 1 )
+Normal: ( -.5 -.25 .5 )
+Texture: man_thruster
+Radius: .25
+Length: 10
+StartSnd: 132
+LoopSnd: 132
+StopSnd: 132

Help?

[Wanderer]

Dunno... my own test with similar setup had no issues at all

[karajorma]

The BSG ships have no entry for index or the three sound entries at all. Try it without them and see if it works.

[Unknown Target]

Here's a sample from the BSG tables:

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$Thruster:
+Used for: ( "pitch down" "roll right" "slide left" "slide down" )
+Position: (0.4 .43 7.6)
+Normal: (0.4 .4 0.0)
+Texture: thrustjets
+Radius: 0.08
+Length: 0.8