Oolite JavaScript Reference: Ship

Prototype: Entity
Subtypes: Station, Player

This page documents a planned future Oolite scripting feature. It is presented as a basis for discussion or to help developers organize their thoughts. The functionality presented may end up taking a radically different form, or may not become available at all.

The Ship class is an Entity representing a ship, station, missile, cargo pod or other flying item – anything that can be specified in shipdata.plist. A Ship has all the properties and methods of a Entity, and several others.

Stations and the Player are types of ship. Note that these more specific types have additional properties and methods.

Properties

`shipDescription`

shipDescription [read-only string]

The name of the ship type (name key in shipdata.plist).

`roles`

roles [read-only array]

The roles of the ship. Probabilities are not included.

`AI`

AI [read-only string]

The name of the ship’s current AI. (See also: AIState, setAI(), switchAI(), exitAI())

`AIState`

AIState [read/write string, read-only for player]

The ship’s AI’s current state. (See also: AI, reactToAIMessage(), hasSuspendedAI)

`fuel`

fuel [read/write double]

The ship’s current fuel capacity, in LY. The game will limit this to the range 0..7, and round it off to the nearest tenth. (See also: Player.fuelLeakRate)

`bounty`

bounty [read/write integer]

The bounty on the ship. This also determines its legal status. In the case of the player, it is halved at each witchspace jump.

`subEntities`

subEntities [read-only array of Ships]

The ships subentities, or null if it has none. Special subentities such as flashers and exhaust plumes are not included.

`hasSuspendedAI`

hasSuspendedAI [read-only boolean]

true if the ship has suspended AIs, false otherwise.

`target`

target [read/write Oolite/Development/Scripting/Class/Ship|Ship]

The ship’s primary target, i.e. the entity it will attempt to shoot at. This value is automatically co-ordinated between a ship and its subentities.

`escorts`

target [read-only array of Entitys]

The ship’s deployed targets.

`temperature`

temperature [read/write double]

The ship’s temperature, normalized such that a temperature of 1.0 is the level at which a ship starts taking heat damage.

`heatInsulation`

heatInsulation [read/write double]

The ship’s heat insulation factor. 1.0 is normal, higher values mean more resistance to heat.

Methods

`setAI`

void setAI(AIName)

Set the current AI, leaving the old one suspended. Equivalent to the setAITo: AI method. May not be used on player. (See also: AI, switchAI(), exitAI())

`switchAI`

void switchAI(AIName)

Set the current AI, exiting the old one. Equivalent to the switchAITo: AI method. May not be used on player. (See also: AI, setAI(), exitAI())

`exitAI`

void exitAI()

Exit the current AI, restoring the previous one. Equivalent to the exitAI: AI method. May not be used on player. Will generate a warning if there are no suspended AI states. (See also: AI, setAI(), hasSuspendedAI)

`reactToAIMessage`

void reactToAIMessage(AIState)

Immediately execute the ship’s AI in the specified state.

`deployEscorts`

void deployEscorts()

Launch the ship’s escorts, if any.

`dockEscorts`

void dockEscorts()

Dock the ship’s deployed escorts, if any.