Has anyone seen any star shells?

[kylania]

Played SH3 again tonight! Here I am sinking a Revenge Battleship from 3.5km away in the midst of a convoy. One of four torpedoes prematurely exploded, but apparently no one noticed. Once the first of the last three hit though searchlights popped up everywhere!!

We definitely need more searchlights and starshells in SH5.

[Akula4745]

Originally Posted by kylania

We definitely need more searchlights and starshells in SH5.

I second that emotion...

[reaper7]

The ship weapons.aix file contains info on them.
Wonder if its called?

# Ship weapons:
#
strategy ShipFire(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:ContactDetected()
}
strategies
{
DC,
ShipFireStarShells,
Cannons
}
}
strategy DC(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:GetRole() != ROLE_SPIRAL
}
strategies
{
DCRacks,
HHogs,
DCThrower
}
}
strategy Cannons(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:CanFireCannons()
}
action
{
Ship:FireCannons();
}
}
strategy DCRacks(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:CanFireDCRacks() 
}
action
{
Ship:FireDCRacks();
}
}
strategy HHogs(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:CanFireHHogs()
}
action
{
Ship:FireHHogs();
}
}
strategy DCThrower(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:CanFireDCThrowers()
}
action
{
Ship:FireDCThrowers();
}
}
strategy ShipFireStarShells(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:CanFireStarShells()
}
action
{
Ship:FireStarShells();
}
}

Also in the ship tatics.aix file

strategy Role_Pineapple1(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:GetRole() == ROLE_PINEAPPLE1 
}
action
{
Ship:SetGotoDestRelToContact(-500);
Ship:GotoAction(0, false, 100);
 
Ship:SetGotoForwardDist(1000);
Ship:EnableStarshells(true); 
Ship:GotoAction(0, false, 100);
Ship:EnableStarshells(false);
 
newHeading = Ship:GetCurrentHeading() - 180.0;
Ship:TurnToHeading(newHeading, 1.0);
 
Ship:SetGotoForwardDist(300); 
Ship:GotoAction(0, false, 100);
} 
}

EDIT:

Just found this in the ship commander.aix file

strategy Commander(Ship)
{
precond
{
Ship:IsCommander()
}
strategies
{
#OperationPlasterComm,
OperationSpiralSearchComm,
OperationFollow,
#OperationSinglePlasterComm,
#PineappleComm,
#RaspberryComm,
TerminateOperationComm
} 
}

As you can see above the Pineapple stragey is disabled - The AI ships won't call the Pineapple stratagies which have the starshells in them.

Can someone test if we change #PineappleComm to PineappleComm
will it enable the AI to use the strategy Role_Pineapple1(Ship)

Still in development stage of my UI Mod so can't test this out at the moment.