[Spidey-]

I'm setting up a chase with the lead fighter heading towards a waypoint. I want the lead fighter to keep flying straight without maneuvering even when fired upon.
I set the waypoint priority to 89 and set the ship to ignore the pursuer, but it still starts making turns when fired upon

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks!

[Black Wolf]

Give it play dead orders, and then move it with sexps.

[Spidey-]

Perfect, thanks!

[General Battuta]

Disabling dynamic goals would also probably do the trick, and be easier?

[Scotty]

I'm pretty sure they still dodge out of the way of fire.  Isn't that why you guys had to lock weapons on the first mission with Sanctuary in it in AoA?

[Spidey-]

that's not the problem I had with it,
actually, my problem was that set speed appears overridden by play-dead. so the ship just stops
I figured out that every-time//face-object works well

[Spidey-]

I have another problem,
For some reason I can't get this corvette to kamikaze into a hostile destroyer. I've set-goals, forced speed, made sure invul's off, but they just keep turning away from each other.

Thanks for your help!

[Mobius]

Have you actually set the corvette up to be a kamikaze ship? If not, you need to do any of the following:

1) Ship Editor ---> Edit Ship ---> Misc ---> Kamikaze. You can even select the damage it inflicts.

2) Use the "kamikaze" SEXP ("not-kamikaze" to undo). You can select the damage here, too. This one is useful if you want a given ship to go kamikaze after event X has occurred during the mission, and not by default.

[Spidey-]

yes, i have

[Mobius]

Is the destroyer supposed to attack the corvette? If so, it'd be hard to collide in the resulting flying circus.

[Spidey-]

*face-palm*
I had my priorities mixed up

Thanks again

[Mobius]

You're welcome, Spidey.

[Stormkeeper]

collide in the resulting flying circus.

Rather mild description of the spectacle of directly ordering two capital ships to engage each other.

[Spidey-]

no, it's not that, i had one going to a waypoint

New problem, is it me or is set-object-speed-z broken? absolute reference has it moving in x axis and relative doesn't even work.
I'm trying to have the corvette collide with the destroyer at speed and set-speed is the only way I can think of.

-edit: nvm, normal speed is sufficient for what I need, but I still don't know about the SEXP, did a search and didn't find anyone reporting

[FreeSpaceFreak]

IIRC, those SEXPs only works if the ship has no other goals at the time. Try adding a clear-goals, see if that helps?

[Spidey-]

i have it set to play dead, clear-goals would not work because the ship just starts flying around. either way, the set-speed-x/y work fine

anyways, new problem, I'm trying to get the subtitle-image to work. I have a TGA in the maps folder. I couldn't find the option in launcher so I'm assuming TGA/JPEGs are enabled with recent builds. Right now I'm just using a 500x500 gray testimage

when
-has-time-elapsed
   -2
-show-subtitle-image
  -testimage
  -50
  -50
  op=false
  op=false
  -0
  -0
  -6000

I've also tried all settings to default (except time), placing the image in data/hud and data/interface

Thanks for your suggestions

[Mobius]

I'm not sure, it's been a while since I last used image subtitles, but I think you should move the pic from the maps folder to the hud folder.

[Droid803]

effects, actually.

[Mobius]

Uhm, I've just checked, I used to place the image subtitles I wanted to use in data/hud. The engine could check both subfolders looking for image subtitles, who knows.

[Droid803]

I have a working example of the subtitle images placed in effects from my own mods.
Its also where they're found for WoD.

EDIT: wait I was using show-subtitle