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[Alex]

A hit from the EMP ship system will, but that's not an intrinsic property of either EMP arcs or EMP weapon damage.

Missiles can also have an "emp resistance" set through code, which will make them ignore this effect for X EMP system hits.

[Takion Kasukedo]

If clip size is unspecified, it defaults to 1, btw.

Let's say the clip size is 20. If ammo/second is .1, this means it takes 10 seconds for 1 ammo to regenerate. Since the clip size is 20, it would take 20 * 10 = 200 seconds per clip. A more reasonable ammo/second of 1 would mean a 20 second reload time per clip. Does that make sense?

That seems to make sense, thanks Alex!

Another question for those modders out there, though.

How does one make a high-profile projectile that smashes through ordnance and low-profile objects, allowing it to reach it's maximum distance without having all of it's damage go into a stray rocket?

[Midnight Kitsune]

Another question for those modders out there, though.

How does one make a high-profile projectile that smashes through ordnance and low-profile objects, allowing it to reach it's maximum distance without having all of it's damage go into a stray rocket?

I THINK the only way to do this is by making a projectile plasma based (IE the same thing the PCannon uses)

[Alex]

Pretty sure this is correct, yeah.

[Histidine]

Is there an easy way to, given a Vector2f and a CombatEntityAPI, get the nearest point on the entity's targeting radius?

EDIT: or better yet, to the nearest point on its collision bounds

[Alex]

com.fs.starfarer.api.util.Misc.getTargetingRadius() gets you the targeting radius from that point; from there it's a bit of vector math. IIRC there's nothing like that for collision bounds.

[xenoargh]

On the Plasma Cannon projectile effect... it'd sure be nice to have a boolean for other .proj types, but IIRC can't we also use collision masks?  Or does that not work any more?

[Nicke535]

...or better yet, to the nearest point on its collision bounds

LazyLib has a function for this using CollisionUtils.getCollisionPoint(), which takes in two Vector2f (acting as start and end of a line) and a combatEntityAPI. It returns the first hit location the line would hit on the collision bounds of the target.

[Histidine]

I need the nearest point though, not the one on a line passing through the entity center.

e.g. the point marked with an orange star, not the red one:


(actually I don't need it any more, decided that using the targeting radius was good enough and the best approach I've been able to think of for the way I wanted involves ray cast spam)

[Alex]

If it still matters, or for future reference:

Code: java

public static Vector2f closestPointOnSegmentToPoint(Vector2f p1, Vector2f p2, Vector2f p3) {
	float u = (p3.x - p1.x) * (p2.x - p1.x) + (p3.y - p1.y) * (p2.y - p1.y);
	float denom = Vector2f.sub(p2, p1, new Vector2f()).length();
	denom *= denom;
		
	u /= denom;
		
	// if closest point on line is outside the segment, clamp to on the segment
	if (u < 0) u = 0;
	if (u > 1) u = 1;
	
	Vector2f i = new Vector2f();
	i.x = p1.x + u * (p2.x - p1.x);
	i.y = p1.y + u * (p2.y - p1.y);
	return i;
}

Segment is p1 to p2, external point is p3.

(The approach is figuring out where a normal from the line to the point would be on the line.)

[Machine]

So what is the range of the random seed used by sector generation?

Doing some testing I realized that the seed "MN-0" works, and it works up to a number that is over "MN-9000000000000000000" but below "MN-9999999999999999999" at which point the game won't recognize it as a valid seed.

Fun fact "MN-9999999999999999999" is not the limit as I expected, it is something lower than that since "MN-9999999999999999998" wouldn't work either; nor is it "MN-9000000000000000000", since the game generates seeds that are over it, although somewhat rarely?.
Also I did spend some time getting random seeds; none seemed to be less than 19 digits (I admit I might have missed some that were), that said, less than 19 digits seeds do work.

Why would I want to know about this? I actually want to have a customized star system to generate in a "random" location that is seed dependent. Considering that I could just assume the range to be "0 to 9999999999999999999", to select a "random" point between a circle, this is not a big issue...
However mainly out of curiosity, I would like to know what are the ranges for this, both the maximum and minimum the game would accept, and the range the game actually generates the seeds.

[Alex]

The seed is a long-type value.

However, if you're looking to use an rng based on the seed, I'd suggest just using StarSystemGenerator.random during the sector generation process.

[Histidine]

Could SettingsAPI.getVariant(variantId) (and maybe FactoryAPI.createFleetMember(variantId)) with a variant that doesn't exist return null instead of throwing a RuntimeException? Doing a try/catch to check if a variant exists feels pretty silly.

[Alex]

Added: SettingsAPI.doesVariantExist(String variantId)

I'd like to keep the runtime exception behavior since it makes it easier for me to track down problems (say, when a variant is not found due to a *bug*) because then I'll know the variant ID that caused it.

[Plasmatic]

What program would be best used to modify .csv files?

A program that isn't microsoft excel.

I've tried libreoffice, but apparently that makes the game crash even when i save as a .csv.

so I'm wondering if I'm missing something..