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[FlashFrozen]

So I'm making a weapon and it's associated .proj file, but I've noticed, that if I increase "length" too much it'll start affecting the effect when it hits a target by making it absurdly bright / large

Is there anyway to tone it down? Unless there's some kinda .proj override am I stuck with this flashy shock and awe?

   "specClass":"projectile",
   "spawnType":"BALLISTIC_AS_BEAM",
   "collisionClass":"RAY",
   "collisionClassByFighter":"RAY_FIGHTER",
   "length":700.0,
   "width":28.0,
   "fadeTime":0.05,
   "fringeColor":[100,100,255,255],
   "coreColor":[255,255,255,255],
   "glowColor":[100,100,255,255],
   "glowRadius":5,
   "textureType":"SMOOTH",  # only needed for BEAM spawnType
   "textureScrollSpeed":-256.0,
   "pixelsPerTexel":1.0   

Meep, that or maybe a poke in the suggestion forum for a explosion override kinda deal to bring it back to reasonable levels?

[silentstormpt]

try adding this:

Code

"hitGlowRadius":50,

or maybe:

Code

"explosionRadius":500, # purely visual

[Alex]

hitGlowRadius is the one you want here. explosionRadius is for missiles.

[FlashFrozen]

Ahhhhh, thanks so much, all these nice to have variables.

[mendonca]

I'm going to post my query in here, as it is in a similar vein.

I have been working through a weapon, and as part of this weapon I want to make a large section of the ship glow (basically a large built in beam weapon).

I can make this part work great, but by doing so I 'hack' the size of the glow .png to make sure it goes where I want it to go - by adding loads of blank space.

The question is: Can I offset the position of the glow sprite, relative to whatever, to stop me making a huge mostly-empty sprite, sized at just the right size for the code to default it in to the right place?

The main problem with this is that, being a beam weapon, a visual glow appears at the fire point to cue the player that the beam is receiving a flux bonus. This glow is apparently (by default) relative to the size of the glow sprite, which ends up being huge, and I get a rather large (unwantedly large) glow. It looks a bit silly.

Could I specify how big this 'overflux' glow is, as an alternative?

EDIT:

Just some pictures to explain what I'm on about:

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because of this distended glow file:

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[Alex]

The question is: Can I offset the position of the glow sprite, relative to whatever, to stop me making a huge mostly-empty sprite, sized at just the right size for the code to default it in to the right place?

The main problem with this is that, being a beam weapon, a visual glow appears at the fire point to cue the player that the beam is receiving a flux bonus. This glow is apparently (by default) relative to the size of the glow sprite, which ends up being huge, and I get a rather large (unwantedly large) glow. It looks a bit silly.

As a hacky workaround, you can add "convergeOnPoint":true, to the weapon (assuming it's a single beam, it shouldn't cause trouble). That'll halve the glow size - might not be enough, though.

Added "specialWeaponGlowWidth" and "specialWeaponGlowHeight" for the next release.

[mendonca]

Cool, that'll help greatly!

Thanks!