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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: SKYNET-011 on March 31, 2003, 05:30:24 pm

Title: Could primary weapons...
Post by: SKYNET-011 on March 31, 2003, 05:30:24 pm: ...be made to use a warmup glow and charge time?
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Post by: IceFire on March 31, 2003, 07:18:30 pm: Your basically talking about a muzzle flash. Would be cool! :)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on April 01, 2003, 04:21:22 am: Could you make one like an M16? You know, like with a six-way flash, kind of thing?
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Post by: Inquisitor on April 01, 2003, 07:52:55 am: don't see why not for the muzzle flash.

as for the charge time, I assume you mean like a gatling gun, where it has to "spin up" before it starts firing?
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Post by: Killfrenzy on April 01, 2003, 08:04:12 am: Or like Starlancer's Nova Cannon or Battlezone's MAG Cannon. :)
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Post by: CP5670 on April 01, 2003, 01:04:42 pm: It is possible to do a basic muzzle flash even now by playing around a bit with that mflash.tbl file. However, it does not always appear in the game for some reason; I was able to get it to work with some weapons but not others, and even then it occasionally just randomly fails to show up.

As for the charge-up weapons, are we talking about something that can be charged to make more powerful (Descent's fusion cannon) or rather something that must charge up in order to fire at all (Tribes 2's chaingun)?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 01, 2003, 01:07:52 pm: How (not) rare!

A decent charging effect like the siege cannon from Cataclysm would be great.
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Post by: IceFire on April 01, 2003, 03:23:48 pm: A Fusion cannon style chargup has been discussed and I really really want to see that. Its relatively simple in implementation (please, skip the complicated heat and whatnot stuff). It should work like WCP's Charging Mass Driver. Hold the fire button and it charges until your energy banks are dry (and/or it reaches its maximum charge/damage potential).

Muzzle effects for standard weapons would be great tho. Another thing that would make TBP look great.
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Post by: phreak on April 01, 2003, 03:25:55 pm: i looked into this and it may be tricky to write ai and multi code that handles this
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on April 04, 2003, 02:04:41 pm: I meant charge like beams.
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Post by: Terorist on April 05, 2003, 01:43:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by SKYNET-011
I meant charge like beams.
How are you supposed to be able to hit anything with a weapon like that? By the time the weapon has charged up, the (former) target is already handing your ass to you. Brr.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on April 05, 2003, 01:44:42 pm: Use it for heavy guns you'd employ against capitals.
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on April 05, 2003, 04:06:23 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Terorist
How are you supposed to be able to hit anything with a weapon like that? By the time the weapon has charged up, the (former) target is already handing your ass to you. Brr.

It COULD be useful for superweapons.
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on April 06, 2003, 01:49:57 pm: *Bump*
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Post by: IceFire on April 06, 2003, 03:50:44 pm: We've got two very separate things here. Beam glow style muzzle flashes for primary cannons and charging primaries. Two things...keep em separate :)
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 07, 2003, 06:43:14 am: I thought that primaries already had muzzle flash? There are muzzle flash pcx files in the effects folder AFAIK.
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on April 07, 2003, 02:17:21 pm: A weapon that charges and fires like a beam.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 07, 2003, 02:21:43 pm: What about it?
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on April 07, 2003, 02:23:00 pm: Didn't see your post there. :rolleyes:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 07, 2003, 02:25:06 pm: How dare you?:D