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Slashing beeeeemz! How's the shivans coming along?I'm trying to solve the slashing beam problem before I start implementing the Shivans. This of course is complicated by the fact that my girlfriend and I just started playing Ni No Kuni together and my development PC can't see the TV screen the PS3 is hooked up to.
Based on the problems I encountered yesterday evening it is going to take me several more evenings (if in fact the way I want to implement them is possible).The mod that I downloaded from the chinese website was a 5 in 1 modpack that came with a copy of starfarer itself. As labeled in the mods directory of that copy of starfarer (which I simply transferred over to my own copy of the game, suspecting that it would otherwise be completely in chinese) are ACM (a non total-conversion version of Project ironclads) FS2Mod-54, which is the freespace2 mod, Knight, a chinese mod that features gray and white kitbashed ships, minimash, which seems to be a copy of Omega's minimash, and modularfleet, featuring expensive blue ships of death. I doubt I could find the mod again in those chinese forums due to my lack of speaking chinese, but if you send me a PM I could probably re-upload it for you.Wait, they liked my FS2 mod enough to stick it in the pack with a pirated version of Starsector?
Is it possible to change the way the current beams work? In freespace when the beams are "Loading" you just see the weird colored ball on the weapon and after a while it fires a "short" high damage burst. If this would be possible i think it might give some extra time to actually aim at the enemy or maybe aim off so you wont fire at your friendlies like i tend to do. xDI don't know if I can do that in Starsector, but as this one is mostly (not entirely, I know) cosmetic it will be low on the priority list.
Second thing is with the Anti-fighter beams that they arent supposed to be continuous like the normal beams. It's more like a pulse of 3 shots that gives it the much needed accuracy against agile fighters. Not sure is it possible to create this with the starfa... *krhm* starsector engine....?I had forgotten about this.
3rd and last thing.. is it possible to make beams to go through the enemy wrecks? Like cutting through a single part of the wreck and possibly hitting an enemy on the other side? Of course if all thease 3 things would be done the weapons would probably be even more "overpowered" (i use that word lightly for now).Possibly, there is a flag. That said, I don't really want to do it because as you said, it'd be overpowered. Of course, these beams will easily destroy most wreaks, so it'll "punch" through that way.
Edit1: Almoust forgot. The thing in freespace with the beams was that after the beam stopped loading and fired away it was fixed at the target... hence the pulse with the Anti-fighter beams. You could correct the aim after each pulse making it more effective against fighters... though since the speed of fighters in starcontrol isnt that big dont think this is needed.... maybe?I think with LazyWizard's suggestion for how to do slashing beams I might be able to do this, yes. However, they might get it for free with the triple-burst since it is a Point Defense weapon. It depends on if the game engine allows the weapon to re-aim between bursts.
Cheers
-Sandremo
Another question... Does the station get resupplied with weapons and ships? Asking for supplies might be a bit useless when the "Campaign" is only 1 area long but.. i still havent got enough money to test the Hecate and Orion class destroyers. Q_QYes, it does get resupplied. (or it should--if it isn't, let me know)
Actually, that's a good point. I suppose I hadn't looked deeply into this since before I started really diving into Starfarer's APIs.So the Deimos is only supposed to have Slashing beams: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTCv_Deimos
Unfortunately that is the one weapon that I cannot even come close to simulating, so depending on the ship I've replaced those slots with LR Tac Lasers or Graviton Beams.
Can you do something with WeaponAPI.setCurrAngle() and a custom weapon plugin?
Btw What are your thoughts on SD Lucifer? Are you going to stay "Lore friendly" and not add it or since it's starsector and supposed to be fun and add it anyway?I initially considered adding it, but it unfortunately doesn't really fit in very well--I actually don't think it would be a particularly interesting ship to fight or pilot, and the Shivans will already have several other Capital options.
AHMERGAWD, where is my Maxim cannon??? And tornadosNeither of those are particularly difficult for me to make, but since Starsector does not allow the player to change loadouts on fighter wings, they would have to appear as different variant wings.
Added "GTVA", updated the list with colors.Ok, I looked it up. The actual color is 0,109,42,255 (hex value for HTML: #006D2A)
