reduce ai attack range??

[shadow06]

i want to make battle like startrek series good ship fight scenes. is there possible reduce ai ship combat range?? they allways engage far

[MLeo]

Reduce these values in scripts/AI/PlainAI/TorpedoRun.py

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fMinDistance = 25
fIdealDistance = 200
fMaxDistance = 250

And I think when it comes to Phasers it always is firing them, but you don't see them because they are out of range.

[shadow06]

is there any way to stop this??

And I think when it comes to Phasers it always is firing them, but you don't see them because they are out of range.

[MLeo]

No, not that I know of and doesn't include trawling through AI code.

[Nighthawk]

AFAIK, changing the minimal firing distance in the hardpoint (phaser property) seems to work. distances around 10-30 should work

these settings should give you a ds9-like galaxy phaser.

charges: 4
damage: <depends on the desired balance>
discharge rate: 1
distance: 15
minimum charge: 4
recharge rate: 1.2
width: 0.04
sides: 4
core scale: 0.3
texture scale: 0.02

these setting will look like a NEM Ent-e phaser

charges: 0.5
damage: <also, depends on balance>
discharge rate: 1
distance: 15
minimum charge: 0.5
recharge rate: 0.4
width: 0.04
sides: 4
core scale: 0.7
texture scale: 1

[JimmyB76]

ya but the ships only seem to charge towards an enemy when the torps are loaded and ready to fire...
im not so sure that decreasing the max distance on the phasers would make the sphere of battle smaller - tho i could be very wrong...

[Nighthawk]

im not so sure that decreasing the max distance on the phasers would make the sphere of battle smaller - tho i could be very wrong...

not quite, if the ships are fast and agile.
but heavy ships like the galaxy or the warbird will come closer when they see their weapons barely damage the target.

also, you can make the ships fire torpedoes closer by making them get out of guidance or disappear closer
it won't make the AI come actually closer, but make them think deeper when they attack, not just "ready?->fire", but more "ready?->close enough?->coming?->weak?-fire"

(something I learned by waaaaaay too much testing ^_^)
 
I was going to pack some scripts for that, but, you know, Wowwy and CK left me on permanent hold lol

[jayce]

i want to make battle like startrek series good ship fight scenes. is there possible reduce ai ship combat range?? they allways engage far

at what range would you like the AI to engauge? if I remember correctly, the minimun intercept range is about 52km. afterwards, the AI enguages targets at about 50km. I have a fairly simple code, a formula that will control when the AI can actually fire weapons simply by entering in the approiate km value; 50, 40, 32 etc. it will only control when the AI can fire, but the AI will still follow its pre-defined manuvers which takes place whenever the AI is not trying to intercept a target. changing manuvers will require a complete rewrite of the entire AI. if all you want is to reduce the range in which the AI fires, then I'll fire up my old computer and get the script from one of my old AI's.