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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