N-Shields

Gives NPCs highly customizable shields, with the default setting (as in CustomShields) being a 'fair' emulation of the player's shields.

Features:

- Fair shield recharge code (CustomShields didn't charge shields until energy banks were full)

- Attempting to provide better compatibility for other OXPs with shipTakingDamage overrides

- Thargoids get dorsal/ventral shields. Support for other very non-standard shield configurations was attempted but removed in version 0.7 to simplify the code.

- More customisable colours. The default multicolour set goes from green down to red for standard shields, extending to blue/purple with upgrades.

- New visual effects based on explosions.plist for shields and unshielded hits.

Downloads

latest version available on the Expansion Manager and here: N-Shields v1.0

N-Shields 0.7 667 downloads

N-Shields 0.6.4 downloaded 108 times

Version History

1.0 (by Dybal)

• Drops support for Shield Cycler (and Shield Cycler Next) 1.x for NPCs.
• Creates idempotent function for OXPs to call to configure a NPC's shields.
• Encapsulates modifications of ship's energy to verify for NaN before assigning a value into ship.energy (to prevent "invulnerable ship" bug).
• Adds delay to shipSpawned before setting up the ship to allow other OXPs' shipSpawned to award equipments.
• Configures shield recharge rate with Energy Grid (civilian and naval) upgrades if the NPC has them installed.
• Configures both Military Shield Enhancement and Shield Enhancer for NPCs.
• Doesn't award Shield Cycler to NPCs that have Shield Equalizer.
• Fixes bugs in handling of damage to subentities.
• Standardizes script object properties names: functions references start with '$' (except event handlers), everything else starts with '_';

0.7.1

• Fixed missing "use strict" in N-Shields.js.
• Removed Ship Configuration compatibility script entry from world-scripts.plist (the actual script was removed in 0.7.0).
• Reduced Thargoids' max shields (and compensatory energy reduction) slightly.

0.7

• Removed support for unusual/configurable shield types, except dorsal/ventral which now applies to Thargoids only, in order to simplify the scripts.
• Changed flashers from Ship entities to VisualEffects.
• Pre-defined flasher colour options: 3x Multicolour, Green, Blue.
• Hemisphere glow effects removed.
• New script_info keys NShields_flasherPreset, NShields_flasherKeys, max_shield_forward etc. to replace the now-unsupported NShields_colours, NShields_config.
• Config interface now works correctly (requires Oolite 1.83 or higher and Library OXP).
• Improved efficiency of hit-location code.
• Tentative support for Shield Cyclers on NPCs.

0.6.4

• Fixed bug in $locateHit cloaked-attacker handling (missing a ".position" or two).

0.6.3

• Fixed some bugs in NPC Equipment Damage compatibility code

0.6.2

• Fixed bug in manifest (missing "}").

0.6.1

• Added correctly functioning shipconfig version check and fixed small variable non-declaration in $drawSparks

0.6

• Added user-friendly configuration options via Library OXP.
• Hemisphere glow effects now work, although they still look awful.
• Added compatibility with NPC Equipment Damage OXP.

0.5.4

• Removed non-functioning version check; tested & corrected quaternion multiplication.

0.5.3

• Added version check in NShields-shipconfig-compatibility.js as requested by phkb

0.5.2

• Attempt to fix buggy aft shield effect orientation by using quaternion multiplication. Untested due to oolite-trunk launching error.

0.5.1

• Fixed bug in subentity shielding code which didn't check whether a shipTakingDamage handler had been stored before trying to call it
• Added hemisphere glow effects (disabled by default because very under-debugged & not really working yet)

0.5

• Added explosion-based shield effects.

0.4

• Improved recharge code for fore/aft shields works more like the core player version.
• Correct handling of heat damage (hopefully?).
• $locateHit now attempts to identify a cloaked attacker if the parameter passed is null.
• Added dorsal/ventral shield configuration option and changed Thargoid default to use this.
• Fixed bug in $configureShieldsFromArray which caused Thargoid shield config failure.

0.3

• New features: Player shield effects, NPC shields protect subentities, spark effects for unshielded hits.
• Support for Ship Configuration OXP's shield upgrades/downgrades.
• Fixed bug in recharge code which resulted in excessive energy drain.
• Not released.

0.2

• Extensive re-write implementing some configuration options.
• 'single' and 'fore/aft' shield types supported.
• Damage handler array added for compatibility with other OXPs.
• Not released.

0.1

• Very basic shield simulation. Not released.

Links

N-Shields on Oolite Bulletin Board

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