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Title: Extendable modular tables
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 08, 2005, 08:13:51 pm

I wrote up ~3 pages of overview, examples, and what my recent commit to CVS added.

Then Linux Firefox decided to crash when I pressed the right arrow key. :)

So instead, here's a list...

• Modular table entries for weapons, countermeasures, ships, and engine washes do not completely replace other entries
• Instead, each variable in an entry (ship, weapon, countermeasure, engine wash) changes the variable.
• If a variable isn't defined in an entry, it isn't changed
• Any lists (ie trails, subsystems, animation triggers, flags, allowed weapons, beam sections, etc) are added onto.
• The "+nocreate" flag on the line right after "$Name" specifies that if the entry doesn't already exist, it won't be created (Good for multiple-mod-friendly modular tableS)
• In a couple cases of multiple floating point values on the same line, a double comma can be used to skip a variable ($Subsystem: Communications ,, 10)
• All top-level variables for ships, weapons, engine washes, and countermeasures are now optional. Defaults are either null, or something that shouldn't crash (if possible).
• Obviously I haven't tested all possible permutations of leaving out variables; doing something silly like never specifying a model in any entry for a ship will probably crash freespace 2 if that ship is used.

I've also added some weapons dialogs to the lab.

Title: Extendable modular tables
Post by: DaBrain on October 09, 2005, 02:48:55 am

Very nice. :yes:

Title: Extendable modular tables
Post by: Spicious on October 09, 2005, 03:52:28 am

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Originally posted by DaBrain
Very nice. :yes:

:nod:

Title: Extendable modular tables
Post by: Bobboau on October 09, 2005, 04:38:09 am

people, hail with your right hand, mod with your left.

Title: Extendable modular tables
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 09, 2005, 12:30:59 pm

Something else I did with this update is added a check to make sure that the ship and weapon limits aren't gone over. It'll skip any more ship or modular table entries that create ships once they're reached, and give a warning in debug builds that tells you what the limit is. (In release builds it doesn't say anything)

I just committed a slight change to CVS so that it'll also tell you the first ship, weapon, or countermeasure that will be skipped in the message.

Title: Re: Extendable modular tables
Post by: karajorma on October 09, 2005, 02:21:13 pm

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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Then Linux Firefox decided to crash when I pressed the right arrow key. :)

Maybe you should look into extensions (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1046) a little :)

Title: Extendable modular tables
Post by: Nuke on October 09, 2005, 08:12:23 pm

cool :D