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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: wistler on September 02, 2008, 05:29:44 pm

Title: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: wistler on September 02, 2008, 05:29:44 pm

How do i make AAAf sentry guns? Is it a simple case of changing the ship.tbl?

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: TrashMan on September 02, 2008, 05:43:46 pm

Yes. Whatever weapon you put in the sentry guns turrret will be the default one.

You can also change that in-mission (FRED), rather than make a new ship type.

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on September 02, 2008, 05:45:16 pm

Which gun and what weapon do you want on it.  It might be as simple as changing the turret type in FRED or using a change weapon sexp (can't remember the exact name of it right now). 

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: Polpolion on September 02, 2008, 06:40:20 pm

IIRC a ship requires the flag "cruiser" or above to use beams.

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: Droid803 on September 02, 2008, 07:00:37 pm

Nonsense! :P
Bombers with beam turrets use them just fine. See SB Yali and SB Vidhyachal...

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: Excalibur on September 02, 2008, 10:09:28 pm

Just label a sentry gun "cruiser" in the tables if FRED2ing doesn't work.

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: Droid803 on September 02, 2008, 10:32:16 pm

But you should beam-protect them then, since beam-freed capital ships will fire capital beams at them...

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: wistler on September 04, 2008, 05:57:59 pm

thanks guys, got it working good  :yes:

I keep on tripping myself up by not changing both the mediavp ship.tbl and the one FRED uses , must remember...  :nervous:

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: Snail on September 05, 2008, 11:20:05 am

Quote from: Droid803 on September 02, 2008, 07:00:37 pm

Nonsense! :P

Well all beams in FS2 have "Big ship" attached to them so bombers can't use them. Once you take away that flag (I think) it all works fine.

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on September 11, 2008, 12:32:16 am

   So if the Yali or somesuch bomber has a beam on a turret what could the player do with that gun anyway? Turret weapons typically fire whenever they damn well please. If I was flying a beam bomber I'd want to fire my beam not watch it fire whenever it feels like it.

Title: Re: AAAf sentry guns
Post by: Droid803 on September 11, 2008, 05:59:07 pm

Heh...well, I hacked the POF in PCS2 so that the beams are primary banks.
Its fun to fly then :P (the beam weapon itself is obviously modified so you can't spam it).