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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Akalabeth Angel on December 24, 2003, 03:47:31 pm

Title: Beam damage formula?
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on December 24, 2003, 03:47:31 pm

What formula is used to determine the maximum potential damage of a beam weapon?

Title: Beam damage formula?
Post by: Solatar on December 24, 2003, 03:56:27 pm

damage x armor/shield/subsystem damage
Can't remember if it takes damage every second or every frame.

Title: Beam damage formula?
Post by: karajorma on December 24, 2003, 04:01:55 pm

Have a look in my FRED FAQ for the link to ZylonBane's Beam FAQ.

Title: Beam damage formula?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 24, 2003, 07:40:32 pm

I really, truly hate having to say this but Zylon Bane's Beam FAQ is an indespensible resource. In my defence, he wrote it before he turned in to a complete trolling wanker.

Title: Confused
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on December 24, 2003, 11:39:23 pm

Okay, looking at the beam FAQ it says stuff like the LRed has a lifetime of 7.0 seconds. But when I extracted the weapons.tbl from the root.vp it tells me that the lifetime of the LRed is infact 30 not 7. What gives?

  The Beam FAQ looks really useful but if it uses differen't numbers than what we find in the weapons.tbl then what's the point?

Title: Beam damage formula?
Post by: Solatar on December 24, 2003, 11:45:44 pm

Most of the normal stuff is irrelevant, $lifetime: is used for pulse weapons and missiles.

Down in the beam info section there's something about how long a beam goes for.