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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Krackers87 on April 12, 2003, 05:26:39 pm

Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Krackers87 on April 12, 2003, 05:26:39 pm: how do you put beam cannons on fighters with fred open
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Corhellion on April 12, 2003, 06:19:43 pm: Search is your friend, M'kay?

oh, and someone will Beam you in a while...I would but I don't have the link to the welcome beam.

Enjoy your stay!

Cor
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Bobboau on April 12, 2003, 06:38:40 pm: you don't,
it's done in the tables, just treat you're fighter beam as you would any normal weapon
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 12, 2003, 06:40:49 pm: Gunnery control, commence plasma injection!
(http://members.cox.net/~wmcoolmon/images/welcome.gif) :cool: :D
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Krackers87 on April 13, 2003, 12:25:56 am: dammit how do you do it in the tables

and whats welcome beam?
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Bobboau on April 13, 2003, 12:29:40 am: the welcom beam is tradition, and in order to explane what you need to do to get fighter beams I need to know what you're level of moding is,
do you know how to edit tables?
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Killfrenzy on April 13, 2003, 07:24:07 am: I'm sure that you'll want an explanation of HOW it's done, but to get you having fighter beams quickly, stick this lot in your weapons.tbl

I usually stick it under the UD-8 Kayser. :)

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; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Beam Laser ; $Name: @Beam Laser +Title: XSTR("Beam Laser", -1) +Description: XSTR( "", -1) $end_multi_text +Tech Description: XSTR( "", -1) $end_multi_text $Model File: none ; The following fields (preceded by @) are only required for laser ; rendering, which requires that "Model File:" be none. ; These are the same values that used to be hard-coded: @Laser Bitmap: newglo6 @Laser Color: 190, 150, 250 @Laser Length: 10.0 @Laser Head Radius: 0.90 @Laser Tail Radius: 0.30 $Mass: 0.2 $Velocity: 450.0 ;; speed of the weapon (initially) -- may or may not change $Fire Wait: 0.2 ;; in seconds $Damage: 5 $Armor Factor: 0.9 $Shield Factor: 0.7 $Subsystem Factor: 0.3 $Lifetime: 0.0 ;; How long this thing lives $Energy Consumed: 0.20 ;; Energy used when fired $Cargo Size: 0.0 ;; Amount of space taken up in weapon cargo $Homing: NO $LaunchSnd: 82 ;; The sound it makes when fired $ImpactSnd: 27 ;; The sound it makes when it hits something $Flags: ("player allowed" "beam") $Icon: iconKayser $Anim: Kayser $Impact Explosion: none $BeamInfo: ;; for beam_lite beams - we don't have any associated warmup or warmdown +Type: 2 ;; 0 - 4 are valid #'s +Life: 0.0 ;; how long it lasts once the beam is actually firing +Warmup: 0 ;; warmup time in ms +Warmdown: 0 ;; warmdown time in ms +Radius: 1.0 ;; muzzle glow radius in meters +PCount: 0 ;; particles spewed every interval +PRadius: 0 ;; particle radius +PAngle: 0.0 ;; angle of the random "cone" where the particles are generated +PAni: particleexp01 ;; particle ani +Miss Factor: 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 ;; magic # - higher == miss more (1 for each skill level) +BeamSound: 121 ;; the looping beam-firing sound +WarmupSound: 0 ;; associated warmup sound +WarmdownSound: 0 ;; associated warmdown sound +Muzzleglow: thrusterglow01 ;; muzzle glow bitmap +Shots: 0 ;; only used for TYPE 3 beams +ShrinkFactor: 0.0 ;; what percentage of lifetime where beam starts shrinking (0.1 == 10% life left) +ShrinkPct: 0.0 ;; what percentage of max width we subtract per second $Section: ;; one section of the beam (you can have up to 5) +Width: 0.5 ;; width of the section +Texture: beam-white ;; texture for this section +RGBA Inner: 255 255 255 255 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles) +RGBA Outer: 150 150 150 10 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles) +Flicker: 0.1 ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0) +Zadd: 2.0 ;; hehe $Section: ;; one section of the beam +Width: 0.75 ;; width of the section +Texture: beam-yell2 ;; texture for this section +RGBA Inner: 160 160 0 255 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles) +RGBA Outer: 60 60 0 10 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles) +Flicker: 0.1 ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0) +Zadd: 1.0 ;; hehe $Section: ;; one section of the beam +Width: 1.0 ;; width of the section +Texture: beam-yell ;; texture for this section +RGBA Inner: 255 0 0 255 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles) +RGBA Outer: 60 0 0 10 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles) +Flicker: 0.1 ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0) +Zadd: 0.0 ;; hehe

For those who care, this is an old version of a weapon that has been DRAMATICALLY changed. But it still works.......I hope.....:nervous:
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: JC128 on April 18, 2003, 02:06:23 pm: I just added damage to the targeting beam, im lazy :nod:
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Killfrenzy on April 18, 2003, 05:50:50 pm: Simple, but....

BORING!!![/b] :D:D:D
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: JC128 on April 18, 2003, 07:24:07 pm: Agreed it wasn't much of a challenge that way :p
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Killfrenzy on April 19, 2003, 08:25:45 am: Well, it's a start.

Once you've got the basics, you can create whole new weapons!
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Krackers87 on April 20, 2003, 11:34:16 am: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
the welcom beam is tradition, and in order to explane what you need to do to get fighter beams I need to know what you're level of moding is,
do you know how to edit tables?

on 1-10 id say 7.5
Title: Fighter Beams
Post by: Bobboau on April 20, 2003, 02:04:41 pm: I juist need to know if I need to explain how to get the tables and all that good stuff, or if you know how to do that already