[wEvil]

It might sound totally daft but how are beams actually repesented in the engine?  just a simple line?

If so..would it be possible to use a SPLINE with n number of CVs..that way it would be a possiblity to have beams doing cool curves etc.

Its a little crazy and would be a helluva lot of work..but i just thought about it while reading this thread.

Great work bobbau (I dont understand code at all, so ill shut up)

[Bobboau]

arhg
there was an error
I must have tuched something in the AI code while looking at it,
yup
got to recompile again to see if the new stuff works

[Fozzy]

wow i just look at that code and my brain frezes

[elorran]

Interesting... most interesting indeed.

[heretic]

very, very nice

[Redfang]

Very, very nice indeed.

[Grey Wolf]

He he he.... Time to upgrade the Thor.... 3 beams at once....

[delta_7890]

Do these beams have a warm-up and warm-down sequence?  And they make noise when fired?  We'd want these things to be as close to the other beams as possible after all.

[Nico]

other questions: do they shot till you release the trigger, or do they only make a zap? Is the AI able to use them?

[Fozzy]

Originally posted by Bobboau
looks like I could add a "ignore sheild" flag fairly easily, for pulse weapons

Wow Cool beam, I want to play

i think the ignore shield flag cant include spaces to be simular to the others:

e.g. "ignore_shields"

[Fozzy]

bobboau can you make two versions of the fighter beam, one with SSM enabled and one with out, why not add a "SSM" flag.

[Kazan]

good job on the research bob... i'll take it and make another beam type entirely one i get looking at it... and hey - i thought you couldn't code

[Fozzy]

wow, that bobboaus clever, first of all he makes some of the best models around then he codes somthing in a  rather complex computer language, with only minimal knowlege.

Kazan does that mean that you are going to add a "SSM" flag

[Bobboau]

no warm up\down
it works just like the targeting laser, in fact all I did was told it to go throught and make a targeting laser for each gun point at each gun point, were it used to just say fire a laser from the first
have yet to figure out why the AI doesn't fire it

[Carl]

could also make it so it damages friendlys and asteroid/debris?

[Fury]

Please, someone code a cycling feature.

I am looking for similar effect like in Babylon 5: Minbari Nial and Flyer. Also, all weapons should not be shield-piercing by nature, but instead using such flag in tables to define whether it is shield-piercing weapon or not.

This feature would be useful when someone finally modifies the source to support capital ship class shield meshes (without crashing), similar to current fighter class shield meshes.

[Bobboau]

I'd have to learn how to use those timestamp functions to do that

[Kellan]

Unsurprisingly, our ambitions are still above the ability people have to modify the code.

So Bobb, is this fighter beam basically the targeting laser but with AAAf beam data attached to it instead of the targeting laser's info? And as a result it lacks warmup/down and so on...

[Bobboau]

all I did was I took the targeting laser code, found the bit that said fire the beam from here then told it to repet this for each firing point

[TurboNed]

Does it do damage?

  --TurboNed