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[rogerbacon]

I'd like a beam that 'rakes' across an area of space where it's aimed at instead of hitting with perfect accuracy. I tried editing the min.max spread in the csv but that's only for projectiles.

My thought now is to get the angle of the beam relative to the firing ship and move it +/- some amount every second. However, it seems all methods in BeamAPI are getters and not setters so I'm not sure how I would, programmatically, move the beams target point.
Any suggestions?

[Wyvern]

There are beam weapons that do exactly this in both Shadowyards and SCY; I'd suggest starting by taking a look at how they accomplish that.

Edit: I bet it's something like using the method to ensure a cloned weapon spec, and then changing the firing angle of the weapon's emitter point(s)? But I haven't gone to look myself.

[mezzelo]

You can achieve this by modifying the firing offsets of the weapon's emitters, yes.

Code

weapon.ensureClonedSpec();
/* multiple calls for the spec's different offsets, based on mount type */
weapon.getSpec().getTurretAngleOffsets().set( 
	0, /* offset index, iterate w/ loop if emitting multiple beams from one weapon */
	arc * ((engine.getTotalElapsedTime(false) - sweepStart)/SWEEP_DURATION - 0.5f)
);

weapon.getSpec().getHardpointAngleOffsets().set(0, 
	arc * ((engine.getTotalElapsedTime(false) - sweepStart)/SWEEP_DURATION - 0.5f)
);
weapon.getSpec().getHiddenAngleOffsets().set(0, 
	arc * ((engine.getTotalElapsedTime(false) - sweepStart)/SWEEP_DURATION - 0.5f)
);

It's also possible to modify the weapon's angle itself if you want its graphic to move as well, although this approach restricts your offset to the mount's firing arc.

Code

weapon.setCurrAngle(
	(initialFacing + arc * (((engine.getTotalElapsedTime(false) - sweepStart)/SWEEP_DURATION - 0.5f)) % 360f
);

However, it seems all methods in BeamAPI are getters and not setters so I'm not sure how I would, programmatically, move the beams target point.

iirc it's technically possible to modify the beam's end-point via Vector2f.add, but it's overwritten in execution order after the first frame or so of firing