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Title: A question regarding weapons: variable damage over range?
Post by: Mad Bomber on September 08, 2013, 06:57:48 pm

I haven't found anything in the Weapons.tbl page on the wiki (http://hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Weapons.tbl) about this, so I'll ask here.

Can the FS2 Open code currently accomodate weapons (primary or secondary) that deal variable damage based on the amount of distance they've traveled? (E.g. $Max Damage at $Range1, $Min Damage at $Range2, with the area in between being calculated on a sliding scale.)

Title: Re: A question regarding weapons: variable damage over range?
Post by: Fury on September 08, 2013, 11:36:32 pm

Only in beams.

Title: Re: A question regarding weapons: variable damage over range?
Post by: Mad Bomber on September 09, 2013, 08:28:11 am

I suspected that was the case  :sigh:

Title: Re: A question regarding weapons: variable damage over range?
Post by: Droid803 on September 10, 2013, 02:07:11 am

Not really an issue.
Everything should be using beams anyway.
(I'm being sarcastic)

Title: Re: A question regarding weapons: variable damage over range?
Post by: Aardwolf on September 10, 2013, 09:59:09 pm

Doable with scripting™

@Droid803 lolwut

Title: Re: A question regarding weapons: variable damage over range?
Post by: Mad Bomber on September 10, 2013, 10:47:39 pm

Quote from: Aardwolf on September 10, 2013, 09:59:09 pm

Doable with scripting™

Yeah, I was thinking about that. Like, an entry for each range bracket of the weapon, and the script would change the weapon to the appropriate variant based on range-to-target.

How could I do this and still account for the player being able to change their weapons loadout before the mission began?

(Might be time to move this to the Scripting subforum...)