Docked ship - SobGroup

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#1

Hi,

I need to know if we have function to know how many ships is docked to one ship.

I have sobgroup, this sobgroup need to dock to a large ship.

But, player need to fill all hangar with this fighter. So i need to count the number of ship is docked. Any function to have this number ?

Or to have the number of ship is not docked … Actually, the function fill, add ship in hyperspace and docked.

Any idea ? :slight_smile:

#2

SobGroup_IsDockedSobGroup(sSobGroupName, sSobGroupNameDockedWith)

Description

Returns true if sSobGroupName is docked with sSobGroupNameDockedWith.

Example

SobGroup_IsDockedSobGroup(“Dreadnaught”, “Shipyard”)==0 then … code … end

Arguments

sSobGroupName: name of the sobgroup containing docking squadrons (quoted string)
sSobGroupNameDockedWith: name of the sobgroup where the other sobgroup can dock (quoted string)

Maybe something could be done with that. It’d be hacky, but it might be doable.

#3

Yes, we have this … But not return a value represent the number of ships docked to sobgroup amiral.

My ship can transport 15 squadron … and i need to docked 15 squadron of dart, and we have more of 30 darts in the maps …

The problem is, Player_FillShipByType place to sobgroup all ship (docked and hyperspace is accepted !), so i can’t count the ship is currently docked :confused: (If you have function can return true if the dock is full, why not …)

@BitVenom Any idea ?

#4

This is what I would do:

  1. Track all dockable squadrons the player owns by giving each one a SobGroup of it’s own. Give the SobGroups a name with a number at the end, e.g. “dockable_1”.

  2. When you need to know how many ships are docked in a particular ship, use something like:

    number_of_docked = 0
    for i = 1, number_dockable_sqns do
    if (SobGroup_IsDockedSobGroup(“dockable_”…i, “carrier_or_mothership”)==1) then
    number_of_docked = number_of_docked + 1
    end
    end

#5

Yes, but i found other way :

I use this function :

http://hw2bsg.org/wiki.hw2.info/FunctionPlayer_NumberOfAwakeShips.html

Return all ship is NOT dock or in hyperspace. I know the number of ship in the level, and i know the number of docking bay (the number of squadron can be docked).
I made rule with this function,

g_numbership = 0
function Check_valueship()
  g_numbership  = Player_NumberOfAwakeShip(0)
  -- number max is 147 and i need 15×5 ship dock (75)
  if ( g_numbership == 147 - 75) then 
    print("player dock ship")
    Rule_Remove("Check_valueship")
    Event_Start("Prepare_Hyperspace")
  end
end

In my mind, it’s work … i test it when i can (not now, i go bed ^^) .

Note : The player don’t have this ship by .level, so i can’t made one sobgroup for one squadron … Yeah, it’s not easy if we use startingplayerfleet.lua :wink: (or persist file in this case.). [ I need to post a new ‘post’ in Story of persist for this part… ^^]

If this function and @Dom2 function works, probably add this to tips in the wiki :stuck_out_tongue:

#6

We are being fools. There is a built-in function that does this already! I found this in the Gehenna mission file:

SobGroup_Create("ShipsDockedWithGehenna")
SobGroup_GetSobGroupDockedWithGroup("Gehenna", "ShipsDockedWithGehenna")
#7

Yeah …
The name of the function is not precise.

So after this i need to make SobGroup_Count to have the number of ship docked…

Dream : One function return true if the ship is full of the ship type (hangar) of this type … :slight_smile:

#8

Did you solve your problem already?
I think the SobGroup_GetSobGroupDockedWithGroup function will take all your hangars into account.
They should be splitted into individual ships, I might have a splitter-function that can solve your problem.

#9

I have use other way to make my mission. So the problem is actually solved.