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Modding / Weapon damage loss with range. Does it happen? Moddable?
« on: January 15, 2021, 08:16:55 AM »
Do weapons lose damage with range? If not, is it moddable?

I sort of did this but since I'm new to modding stuff here its probably not the best way.
I made an energy torpedo modeled after the Starfleet Battles plasma torpedo. In the csv it lists 1 damage but in tn the script I override OnHit and calculate the range it has traveled since launch and apply the real damage there as a formula.

I assume this would work for any projectile weapon but how would I do something similar for a beam weapon? To keep it simple let's say I want the beam weapon to do one-half damage if the target is beyond one-half of the beam's max range. Any ideas?

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Modding / Can a hullmod add weapons to a ship
« on: January 12, 2021, 04:29:02 PM »
Is it possible for a hullmod to add weapons to a ship? I know it can add fighters so I thought a weapon might be possible.

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Modding / How to add a hullMod to a ship in a mission (not campaign)
« on: December 29, 2020, 11:59:11 AM »
I'm creating a mission like randomBattle and I want to get each ship and add a hullMod as the ship is added to the player's fleet. How should I do this? I think I'm close but its not quite working. Here's what I've tried so far.

Code
BattleCreationContext batContext = api.getContext();
CampaignFleetAPI playerFleet = batContext.getPlayerFleet();
FleetMemberAPI ship = api.addToFleet(FleetSide.PLAYER, "astral_Elite", FleetMemberType.SHIP, false);
api.addBriefingItem("ship is " + ship.getVariant().getHullMods());
ship.getVariant().addMod("some_HullMod");

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Modding / Vector2f not recognized
« on: December 23, 2020, 09:18:59 AM »
I have a mod I made about 4 years ago and I wanted to update it but I'm getting a "Cannot determine simple type of 'Vector2f'"

I believe I have the right import for the Vector2f class.

[Edit]. Now the error message is different.

Here is my class
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=08048878206568048916

Here is the log
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=28263378194853936554

The error message says :
Error compiling [data.scripts.weapons.SFB_PlasmaOnHitEffect]
java.lang.RuntimeException: Error compiling [data.scripts.weapons.SFB_PlasmaOnHitEffect]
   at com.fs.starfarer.loading.scripts.ScriptStore$3.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 1 error(s) while compiling unit "data/scripts/weapons/SFB_PlasmaOnHitEffect.java"
   at org.codehaus.janino.JavaSourceClassLoader.generateBytecodes(JavaSourceClassLoader.java:226)
   at org.codehaus.janino.JavaSourceClassLoader.findClass(JavaSourceClassLoader.java:178)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)



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Bug Reports & Support / New Game: Can't get past ship selection
« on: August 08, 2016, 06:12:52 PM »
Starting a new game I select my name, my role (smuggler, bounty hunter, etc) and then select my starting ship. After that the process does not advance. I can select the ship ove and over but there is no further progress on creating the game. This is the latest version 7.2a rc 3. I can play missions just fine, however.

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Modding / DamagingProjectileAPI getElapsed() question
« on: January 02, 2016, 03:08:53 PM »
The method getElapsed() says "Time the projectile has been alive.". Does anyone know if this is in seconds or milliseconds or something else?

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Modding / Can I modifiy shot properties during a shot's lifetime?
« on: January 02, 2016, 06:44:16 AM »
I'm thinking of creating a weapon that fires expanding projectiles. I'd like to be able to alter the shot's size and collisionRadius over the shot's lifetime. Is this possible? Has anyone done anything like this?


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Modding / Java question: which java files need to be compiled?
« on: January 01, 2016, 03:14:39 PM »
I made some changes to missions and the changes showed up in the game so I figured out they don't need to be complied.  Which java files must be compiled and which ones can I leave uncompiled?

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Modding / Max character level and aptitude?
« on: January 01, 2016, 09:16:52 AM »
Where can I find the max character level and skill aptitude?

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Suggestions / New Weapon characteristics I'd like to see.
« on: January 01, 2016, 07:23:05 AM »
To add more tactical choices to combat, as well as to vary the uniqueness of weapons, I'd like to see the following traits added to the weapon and /or shot definitions:

1 minimum range. It would be interesting if weapons also had a minimum range. This could go in the csv right next to max range.

2 Damage over range profile. Make the weapon be able to change damage over its range (usually lower at longer range). This could be a json object added to the *.wpn file with range: damage. So {500 : 1, 600: 0.8, 800, 0.2) would be a weapon that does 100% damage out to range 500, 80$ damage to range 600, and 20% damage to its max range of 800)

3 Alternative firing modes. A weapon could have more than one firing mode, activated by a hotkey (maybe ALT+#). Activating it would load a weaponmod file similar to a hullmod and modifiy the weapons characteristics as determined by the weaponMod file. So a weapon might have a regular mode and an overload mode where its damage and flux were higher and its range was shorter.

4 Seeking weapons that have their damage reduced by some ration of the PD damage they take on the way to their target. So, instead of hit points you could define a number like 0.5 meaning that every 2 points of damage the weapon took it would lose one point of warhead strength. This would make more sense for energy seeking weapons than for physical missiles.

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Modding / Where can I get more info on wings_data.csv?
« on: December 30, 2015, 09:35:09 AM »
What do "quality" "role" and "refit" do? I assume role is to help the AI know what type of targets to go after.

What is the max size for "num"? I put in 6 for a fighter with role "FIGHTER" and it works fine but if I put in more than 3 for "BOMBER" it crashes with a worthless null pointer message.

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Modding / Can you disable a weapon mount with a hullmod?
« on: December 29, 2015, 02:38:58 PM »
I want to make a hullmod for a specific class of ship that adds cargo pods but renders two of the ship's weapons unusable. Is that possible? It will only be for a specific class of ship so I know which weapon IDs will be affected if that makes a difference.

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Modding / Do weapons do less damage with range? Is there a way to mod this?
« on: December 29, 2015, 08:35:00 AM »
I was just wondering if weapons did less damage at range because I didn't see anything like this in the CSV files. If not, has anyone modded such capability? I want to make a seeking energy weapon that gets weaker and does less damage the farther it travels. Is that possible?

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Modding / Can you restrict a hullmod to a specific ship type or class?
« on: December 28, 2015, 06:28:34 AM »
So in Starfleet Battles the Romulans have a light cruiser called the SparrowHawk class. It's a modular cruiser with different modules for different tasks. I was thinking of implementing the various modules as exclusive hullmods and I was wondering if there was a way to restrict those mods to just that class of ship and also a way to make them exclusive to each other.

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When I do a refit and want to test it against other ships there seems to be no way to test it against two or more of the same ship class. A ship is either selected or not. Is there some way I missed to select more than one of the same ship?

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