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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: starbug on February 10, 2006, 12:32:59 pm

Title: Help making new weapons
Post by: starbug on February 10, 2006, 12:32:59 pm: As the topic says, i am looking for advice on making new capship weapons, i am getting a campaign sorted out, basically set about a year after capella and the GTVA is on the point of colapse. Pirates, co-operations and a renegade adirmal now fight over most of the GTVA systems, anyway the GTVA now lacks the materials to keep producing Beam weapons and maintaining them so i was looking for an alterantive, i was thinking of sumthing like weapons the capships fired in homeworld, sort of like the shells of a WW2 naval vessel. But i am unsure on how to achieve this affect, any advice would be greatfull.
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: FireCrack on February 10, 2006, 12:45:12 pm: I'd advise taking things like normal plasma gun weapons and adding a trail to them.
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: Wanderer on February 10, 2006, 01:01:32 pm: Be aware that large elongated (non-round) laser bitmaps get distorted when viewing from some angles so you might be better off using a single round bitmap effect combined with proper trail
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: starbug on February 10, 2006, 01:40:03 pm: yeah i tried that with the lasers and it just looked weird, wot i was thinking of was a fireball type thing with a smoke trail behind it so maybe some kind of particle spew with a missile trail? but what kind of TBL entry would i need to do for it because i dont want it to be a missile.
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: Wanderer on February 10, 2006, 01:48:43 pm: Here (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Weapons.tbl) is wiki entry for weapons.tbl.

You can add both particle spew and trail to normal primaries if you like. For smoke trail i would use both particle spew and 'missile' trail. Remember that pspew also needs weapon flag to function. If you are using a round bitmap for effects it might be best to set the 'laser lenght' very short to avoid certain problems.
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: starbug on February 10, 2006, 01:58:35 pm: cool, i'll give it a try.

Edit
dose the muzzleflash work on none flak turrets?
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: Wanderer on February 10, 2006, 02:25:21 pm: Nope.. Not yet.. its on a wish list though.
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: Getter Robo G on February 11, 2006, 07:50:12 am: Oooooo! Are you familiar with Wing Commander's Plasma Cannon/Missile? That Looks like an artillery piece on fire or made out of energy (to me at least)! If you like that give Tolwyn a yell that you want to use/alter it..
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: Wanderer on February 11, 2006, 08:27:19 am: Or starfox mods plasma cannons... they are sweet..

(http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2618/plasma16mi.jpg)
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: starbug on February 11, 2006, 02:09:31 pm: Ooooh that looks damn good, thanks for the tips! i tried to have a go with Particle spews and dunno what i did but go did it look awful, just one long stream of the particle effect eek.
Title: Re: Help making new weapons
Post by: bfobar on February 11, 2006, 11:48:32 pm: My two ideas would be a fusion mortar on steroids or skinning a missle with a beam or plasma texture to make plasma torpedoes.