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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Andrew_Cluetain on May 29, 2011, 10:12:06 am

Title: Media VP's and User created wepons.
Post by: Andrew_Cluetain on May 29, 2011, 10:12:06 am

Hello, I finally downloaded the 3.6.10 Media VP and well...

1. Should have done so much sooner as they look awesome!!!!

2. I want some of the effects the "Retail Weapons" got for my own creations.
     Right now I'm running 3.6.10_INF, mainly due to the number of weapons I have added, and have the weapons.tbl pasted in the table directory.
     I didn't remove the tbl when I added the Media_VP's but all the old weapons got new affects and there are a few shivian secondaries that where there before when I open FRED.  What I would like to do is consolidate the tbl, assuming it's pulling from another tbl and adding the two together some how and add a few affects to weapons I have added.
      The 2 effects I am looking at right now are:  The Rings from the Akheton SDG (to secondaries if possable) and the "trail" that the Cap ship primaries gained (the Green Terran Huge Turret has this)
      As I play around with the new stuff I will probably have more effects that I see and want to ad to added Weapons.

Thanks Andrew Cluetain

Title: Re: Media VP's and User created wepons.
Post by: SpardaSon21 on May 29, 2011, 10:18:07 am

Why are you still using 3.6.10 anything?  3.6.12 is out and greatly superior.

Title: Re: Media VP's and User created wepons.
Post by: Commander Zane on May 29, 2011, 10:18:37 am

There's newer MVPs you can use, unless 3.6.10 is the most your system can handle, you're otherwise missing out.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=70736.0

Take a look here.

Title: Re: Media VP's and User created wepons.
Post by: General Battuta on May 29, 2011, 10:56:55 am

Agreed, there's no reason not to use the 3.6.12 MVPs and executables.

Title: Re: Media VP's and User created wepons.
Post by: Andrew_Cluetain on May 29, 2011, 11:25:06 am

Just finished updating to 3.6.12, no problems there.

Title: Re: Media VP's and User created wepons.
Post by: headdie on May 29, 2011, 12:13:10 pm

Also for changing weapon effects take a look at here (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Ships_and_General_Mod_Creation), here (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Modular_Tables) and here (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Weapons.tbl)

Title: Re: Media VP's and User created wepons.
Post by: Andrew_Cluetain on May 30, 2011, 02:47:30 pm

Thanks, seems I have not been paying attention again, didn't even know about .tbm files, this will help a lot.

Sweet, now I don't need one huge tbl, I Can have separate tbm's for each origin of weapon!!  IE: Starwars-wep.tbm and a separate Startrek-wep.tbm

Thanks again

Edit: 5-30-2011 to add feed back