This mod tries to make the management of a ship fleet in Avorion easier and to provide additional features like custom ship orders.
In the first place, the mod provides an UI window which you can use to:
- assign fleet ships to groups
- give orders to complete ship-groups or single ships
- configure the look and feel of the UI (group-names, colors etc.)
- enable highly customizable HUD display (so you have the info about your ships right at the screen!)
Fleet Orders:
Fleet Groups:
Configuration:
HUD Example:
Enables/disables the Fleet Control UI (menu item & window).
Usage:
/fleetcontrol
/fleetcontrol enable
/fleetcontrol disable
Command to change advanced server-configurations used by Fleet Control UI.
Usage:
/fleetcontrolconfig updatedelay <NUMBER>
/fleetcontrolconfig enablehud <BOOLEAN>
/fleetcontrolconfig clear <TARGET>
Parameters:
<NUMBER> = any positive number or 0
<BOOLEAN> = true or false
<TARGET> = player or server
Download the ZIP file of the latest release and extract it to <Avorion>\data\ directory.
No vanilla script files will be overwritten, so there should be no problems with other mods!
Server/Client: The scripts are server- and client-side.
All files have to be available on the client for multiplayer games!!
(following instructions have to be done once per galaxy and player)
To enable the Fleet Control UI for yourself, you must enter following command into chat:
/fleetcontrol
This will create a new menu icon which you can use to show the UI window:
If you want to hide/disable the UI (or remove and uninstall the script), then use:
/fleetcontrol disable
These configs will help server admins and curious users to tweak performance values and en-/disable features of the UI.
updatedelay:
- defines the delay (in milliseconds) for the update of ship-states etc. in UIs and HUDs of players
- possible values: 0 - 99999999
- default: 750
enablehud:
- can be used to disable the display the Fleet Control HUD globally for a server
- possible values:
trueorfalse - default: true
The mod does not bring its own version of the default ship orders, instead it calls functions in the vanilla "craftorders.lua" script.
If you or one of the mods you are using modified this script, this version will also be used by Fleet Control! In most cases there should be no issues with a modified "craftorders.lua", but be aware of potential problems here (please PM me in this case)!
Easy integration of additional custom commands added by other mods or yourself is planned for the near future!
- Only ships in player's current sector are listed as selectable ships in several places:
this is due to game engine limitations and cannot be changed at the moment
(just visit every sector your ships are in, the UI remembers all your ships once seen) - Only states of ships in player's current sector are available:
this is due to game engine limitations and cannot be changed at the moment - Destruction and sector-change of a ship which is not in player's current sector is not recognized
this is planned to be improved in the near future (maybe even not possible at the moment) - Selecting order "Escort Me" results in order "Escort Ship":
currently, its not possible to get the ships (escort) target via script, so the more general order is displayed
- integration/configuration of other order mods like "Haul Goods" etc.
- integration of additional custom orders
- order "Escort Chain/Polonaise"
- order "Collect Loot"
- improvements for multiplayer:
- improved state-handling for out-of-sector ships
- recognize if ships are controlled by other players
add sounds for actions like "give order" (with config)- notifications for orders and other events (with config)
- more ship state infos in UI and HUD, like hull, shield, velocity etc.
- better HUD alignments based on actual HUD size
- warning on improper player jump-distances when escorted by ships (required API requested from koonschi, waiting...)
- info on current target for states like "Escort" (required API requested from koonschi, waiting...)