AI question

[Nighthawk]

is there any AI (or script) to load ships in QB without a specific team or side, kinda like deathmatch?

[USS Frontier]

Not that I know off...

But it shouldn't be hard to make.
Make your "CreateAI" function, without passing in a ObjectGroup of enemy ships.
Instead, in the same function, before creating the AI, create a ObjectGroup and add in it the name of ALL ships in the game.  (for starbases, make sure there is at least 1 name, even if it is the name of the starbase itself. after creating and setting the AI for a ship you can remove the name of that group.
Only problem I can see with this is updating the ObjectGroup, when new ships enter, or others exit the game. I dunno if it needs to be done somehow, and if it does, I dunno how this update occurs for the regular ObjectGroups, the Friendly/Enemy/Neutral sides.

[Nighthawk]

if it doesn't get updated, couldn't I just put a simple "if not target, then target again" code?
or a self-entry-delete function that removes the name of the ship as an available target when a ship gets destroyed? there must be plenty of those functions in the stock scripts...

the problem it might have, if it works, is lots of processing time. updating every list of every ship..... dunno.....

[MLeo]

The question is, do you want to make everyone an enemy?

[Nighthawk]

The question is, do you want to make everyone an enemy?

not towards me, but towards them.
as I said, sort of deathmatch.

[MLeo]

Well, with FedAttack and NonFedAttack you can pass in all the targets.

Normally, it gets it's targets from the QuickBattleAI.
So, basicly, you need your own AI (or copy and modify the one from QB).

[Nighthawk]

ok, I'll give that a try....
I'm not that skilled with AI, but I guess I can figure it out

[USS Frontier]

hey i'm not that skilled either and i'm managing to make a "fleet based" AI =P

[jayce]

As far as I know, quickbattle only defaults to either friend or foe and that always is dependent on the player.

If I had to guess, I'd say you would probably have more of a better chance at looking into one of the multiplayer folder files

This looks promising and hope it helps:

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def ResetEnemyFriendlyGroups():
# Go through all the ships in the world and make them enemies

# Go through player list, trying to find all the ships
pNetwork = App.g_kUtopiaModule.GetNetwork ()
pGame = App.MultiplayerGame_Cast (App.Game_GetCurrentGame ())

if (pNetwork and pGame):
pMission = MissionLib.GetMission ()
pEnemyGroup = pMission.GetEnemyGroup ()

# First clear the groups.  We will be readding everybody
# so we want to start with an empty group.
pEnemyGroup.RemoveAllNames ()

pPlayerList = pNetwork.GetPlayerList ()
iNumPlayers = pPlayerList.GetNumPlayers ()

for i in range(iNumPlayers):
pPlayer = pPlayerList.GetPlayerAtIndex (i)
iPlayerID = pPlayer.GetNetID ()
pShip = pGame.GetShipFromPlayerID (iPlayerID)

if (pShip and iPlayerID != pNetwork.GetLocalID ()):
# Good, there is a ship for this player
# debug("adding to enemy group: %s" % pShip.GetName())
pEnemyGroup.AddName (pShip.GetName ())

[MLeo]

QuickBattle passes a list of enemies (of a particular ship) to the ship.

So if the list contains every ship execpt for itself, then it effectively targets any ship it can find.