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function to draw targetbox
it could be cool if we could draw a targetbox on multiple simultanious objects at once using a lua function, much like the 3d box targeting uses.. except that we could place it on say ~25 individual targets at a time or more.. or unlimited targets..
thats not to say its targeted, just highlighted or tagged in a sense. they could be added and removed from objects with a function but would otherwise be temporary and destroyed upon leaving sector/game.
it would be useful utilily in mining, combat and other things.. to highlite high value targets in conjunction with other scripts such as marking the next ten roids i plan to visit so i can visualize my route, or marking all the drops i plan to pick up, or marking a handful of ships among a larger battlegroup.. and so on. we could even transmit object ids to others using our scripts so they in turn highlite the same objects..
the boxes could disappear if they are outside radar range but should reappear when the target comes back in range or.. whatever.. the particulars arent super important to me, just the ability to highlite a lot of objects at once with a standard 3d box. you could perhaps refer to the table of tagged items, although we could simply make our own tables as we add and remove the tag from an object.
thats not to say its targeted, just highlighted or tagged in a sense. they could be added and removed from objects with a function but would otherwise be temporary and destroyed upon leaving sector/game.
it would be useful utilily in mining, combat and other things.. to highlite high value targets in conjunction with other scripts such as marking the next ten roids i plan to visit so i can visualize my route, or marking all the drops i plan to pick up, or marking a handful of ships among a larger battlegroup.. and so on. we could even transmit object ids to others using our scripts so they in turn highlite the same objects..
the boxes could disappear if they are outside radar range but should reappear when the target comes back in range or.. whatever.. the particulars arent super important to me, just the ability to highlite a lot of objects at once with a standard 3d box. you could perhaps refer to the table of tagged items, although we could simply make our own tables as we add and remove the tag from an object.
could even go all out and let us set the color of the wireframe so we could give targets priority or some other color code. :)
Like a flight navroute within the sector? Where you can plot multiple points along a route, and it shows you which direction to travel in to get to your next navpoint.
no. not like a navroute in sector at all. just 3d boxes on objects, on demand.
Probably less favorable of a idea, but what if this were instead implemented into some sort of addon like a marker flare or something?
This is going off-topic, but I personally could see this being incorporated into some sort of avionics package for a computer port that we don't have. But that's a suggestion that hasn't gone far with Incarnate in the past.
Anyway, a Lua API function to do this would certainly be interesting.
This is going off-topic, but I personally could see this being incorporated into some sort of avionics package for a computer port that we don't have. But that's a suggestion that hasn't gone far with Incarnate in the past.
Anyway, a Lua API function to do this would certainly be interesting.
boxes around me targets colored based on importance sounds profitable. Paid targets should get special valuable color, say gold. Unpaid targets should be colored something to be mined.