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[Flacman3000]

Hi guys, I wanted to mod and make a weapon that's special but I do not know how to implement my idea, I wanted to implement a mine that gets launched at a slow velocity (by how fast your ship is going) to then contact anything and explode with expanding ring of damage. How would I incorporate this into a large missile mount weapon? I already have sprites some new some already in the game and changed in color. As far I know the imperium atom bomb ship is the closest thing I have to an example without all the debris I just want an image of a ring expanding. until it dissipates with set damage.

[Originem]

Is there any way to refresh the cargo UI? I mean, I need to make some commodities to be illegal or legal after trading, but the red background which shows illegal won't be removed or added dynamically seems like it is not refreshed every frame.

[Alex]

Hi guys, I wanted to mod and make a weapon that's special but I do not know how to implement my idea, I wanted to implement a mine that gets launched at a slow velocity (by how fast your ship is going) to then contact anything and explode with expanding ring of damage. How would I incorporate this into a large missile mount weapon? I already have sprites some new some already in the game and changed in color. As far I know the imperium atom bomb ship is the closest thing I have to an example without all the debris I just want an image of a ring expanding. until it dissipates with set damage.

That's a tough one - nice visuals are hard to just give a "do this" kind of answer for. MagicLib may be a good place to start looking but I'm not really sure what your level of comfort with coding is, and this would take some scripting.

Is there any way to refresh the cargo UI? I mean, I need to make some commodities to be illegal or legal after trading, but the red background which shows illegal won't be removed or added dynamically seems like it is not refreshed every frame.

Ah - looking at the code, yeah, this isn't refreshed every frame, and I don't see a way to force it to refresh. Sorry!

[Originem]

Is there any way to make these boxed contents disabled?
What I know is, the abandoned station condition could clear those things.

[Alex]

Checking the code - the stability, ship quality, etc widget is hidden if the market has the "abandoned_station" condition, so that's hardcoded.

The button is disabled if the market has only 1 submarket and that submarket has the id "storage". So, again, hardcoded.

Let me add a "no_market_info" tag for the next release to let this behavior happen in other cases. There, done.

[NikoTheGuyDude]

I'm trying to make a sabot that explodes immediately and without targetting, like a shotgun. I can't really find a way to do this, since sabots only explode when theyre capable of hitting their targeted ship. Would I have to make a custom missle type to get this to work?

[IonDragonX]

@NikoTheGuyDude
IIRC you are in danger of shooting your own ship with the missile if your range is close to 0. You know the collision radius of a .SHIP file? Well if any effects happen inside that range, they either hit your ship or have unpredictable results.

[NikoTheGuyDude]

@NikoTheGuyDude
IIRC you are in danger of shooting your own ship with the missile if your range is close to 0. You know the collision radius of a .SHIP file? Well if any effects happen inside that range, they either hit your ship or have unpredictable results.

What kind of unpredictable results?

[shoi]

I'm trying to make a sabot that explodes immediately and without targetting, like a shotgun. I can't really find a way to do this, since sabots only explode when theyre capable of hitting their targeted ship. Would I have to make a custom missle type to get this to work?

can't you just make a gun that shoots the sabot projectiles? Unless im missing something, it'd have same effect.

If for some reason you wanted to keep it a missile, you can just make a dumbfire one that doesn't track and shoots directly where aimed

[NikoTheGuyDude]

I'm trying to make a sabot that explodes immediately and without targetting, like a shotgun. I can't really find a way to do this, since sabots only explode when theyre capable of hitting their targeted ship. Would I have to make a custom missle type to get this to work?

can't you just make a gun that shoots the sabot projectiles? Unless im missing something, it'd have same effect.

If for some reason you wanted to keep it a missile, you can just make a dumbfire one that doesn't track and shoots directly where aimed

I can't use [RENDER_LOADED_MISSILES] with projectiles, or else the game will crash, and [RENDER_LOADED_MISSILES] is sort of integral to my envisionment of this weapon.

Also, I've succeeded in making it dumbfire by removing all turning capabilities, but I can't find a way to make it explode instantly. It only seems to explode when an enemy ship is within its arc and range. When I aim it an an enemy, though, it has the intended effect, as I made it burn out instantly... until it starts drifting off and fires while burnt out.

[SafariJohn]

Use a script that detects the first stage and replaces it with the second stage instantly/after a delay/whatever. That is how some of the mod-shotgun weapons work.

[NikoTheGuyDude]

Use a script that detects the first stage and replaces it with the second stage instantly/after a delay/whatever. That is how some of the mod-shotgun weapons work.

Do you know of a specific modded shotgun that does this, so I can reference it (fairly new to modding)

[Cyber Von Cyberus]

Hello, I would like to change the music for the player's colony and use my own, I'd like some help on how to do it since the game seems to crash when I modify the \starsector-core\data\world\factions\player

[shoi]

I have a ship that keeps getting too close to enemy ships (usually cruiser+) and getting killed as a result. It flies far ahead of other ships, and oftentimes ends up behind the enemy line.  im assuming this has to do with it just being faster, but it doesn't seem to react to building flux as quickly as other ships for some reason and will fly straight in front of a ship at like 99% flux trying to kill it.

So my idea is to just set an ai flag to make it back off after a certain flux threshold

would setting AI flag 'BACK_OFF"  when that criteria is met acheive this?

Also what does NEEDS_HELP do? API says "Whether the ship wants to be escorted by nearby friendlies."  Are you able to tell me what that means behind the scenes? When I tried it on a ship it seems like the ship I put the flag on would linger around friendlies more itself, and not that the othe AI ships were being directed towards it, if that makes any sense.

[Alex]

So my idea is to just set an ai flag to make it back off after a certain flux threshold

would setting AI flag 'BACK_OFF"  when that criteria is met acheive this?

It should, yeah.

Also what does NEEDS_HELP do? API says "Whether the ship wants to be escorted by nearby friendlies."  Are you able to tell me what that means behind the scenes? When I tried it on a ship it seems like the ship I put the flag on would linger around friendlies more itself, and not that the othe AI ships were being directed towards it, if that makes any sense.

I forget the details but basically what it says. But, how to explain... it's a situational thing, not something where "if you set this flag it will reliably result in behavior X". That flag results in being a consideration in a few places under the hood, both for whether the ship that has it should try to escort other ships that it otherwise might, and whether other ships will try to escort it if they're so inclined.

BACK_OFF, on the other hand, should be pretty reliable.