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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Grante on January 25, 2011, 04:54:03 pm

Title: 'fire beam' event?
Post by: Grante on January 25, 2011, 04:54:03 pm

Like.... how do I get it to work for one? ha.

I have it set up the following way.

 - Eliza Escape (event name)
    -op when
       -op has-time-elapsed
                 70
       -op fire-beam
              GTCV Eliza Battle
              turret12
              GTI Repair Ring


And yes turret 12 is a beam. But when it gets to the time for it to do it.... Nothing.

Title: Re: 'fire beam' event?
Post by: TopAce on January 25, 2011, 04:56:03 pm

Is the Repair Ring within firing range and within firing arc?

Title: Re: 'fire beam' event?
Post by: Droid803 on January 25, 2011, 04:57:31 pm

Quote from: TopAce on January 25, 2011, 04:56:03 pm

Is the Repair Ring within firing range and within firing arc?

Range don't matter.
(unless you mean the 30km range, though I'm pretty sure it'll fire even beyond that range)

Title: Re: 'fire beam' event?
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on January 25, 2011, 05:08:23 pm

Has to be in the cone of fire. 

Title: Re: 'fire beam' event?
Post by: Spoon on January 25, 2011, 05:44:13 pm

in my own experience, firing a beam on a subsystem is more reliable than the normal fire beam sexp

Title: Re: 'fire beam' event?
Post by: Droid803 on January 25, 2011, 05:54:13 pm

Yeah, targeting subsystems makes the beam much more accurate (because it fires at the subsystem and not at a random vertex or something)
However, it also makes slash beams into direct-fire beams, so watch out for that.