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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: ZeroCooL on February 05, 2015, 09:03:33 am
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hello community!., today i am going to have enough time, in my life to start the building in the VP and try to make it. meanwhile.,
We have an excelent "User made ships" in the wiki., We don´t have an "User made Weapons"?. or some placen when i can
take some models.. and make some tabling?
i have some weapons in my head., and i liked to add it. to my mod
(By now i am continue Wriiting the mission ideas and the Main plotline).
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Here is the wiki entry for the Weapons.tbl (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Weapons.tbl).
We don't host a "User made weapons" page like we do with the ships, likely because if we did there would be an exponential number of weapon entries. Somewhat pointless, since you can get the necessary information to make whatever variant you like from just that one page. Special cases such as beams have their own page, and are likewise referenced within the weapons.tbl wiki where relevant.
If you are looking for examples of weapon types, or weapon effects, your best bet would be to just play through a number released mods or watch some videos.
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I dunno. I think a user-made weapons page has it's place. What if I, as a modder, want a quick new missile to add? Or perhaps a new primary weapon with a weapon model? You're right it may not be so useful for every beam weapon ever... but for missiles or primary weapon models, definitely. Not to mention the newer things with external weapon models and the like.
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A page for weapons with unique models might not be a bad idea, and maybe some sample tables for various stat mixes (weapon A uses a lot of power and fires slowly but does a lot of damage, weapon b also uses a lot of power but fired quickly, and weapon c has lower power usage but still decent damage).
There would probably have to be some sort of vetting process to make sure we don't have dozens of entries that are 90% the same, though
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Custom models/effects probably have a place IMO, as do ones with script-based abilities and whatnot.
Purely table-based ones would need to be rather unique and difficult decide...
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:wtf: They only exist in the user's mod, right? I was getting from the OP that he was developing his own mod... or am I mistaken?
hello community!., today i am going to have enough time, in my life to start the building in the VP and try to make it. meanwhile.,
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(By now i am continue Wriiting the mission ideas and the Main plotline).
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Not sure is zerocool from my old beloved LOA squadron....Or not.
Anyhoo, it does sound like a custom mod is in the works.
And I know a good custom weapon section has its merits, but I can't see forty five copies of "my first pulse weapon " being a good thing.
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Maybe have a link page like with the user made ships, according to the mod that said weapon is used in. Like BP, Diaspora, and DE having their own weapons library page.
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A collection of effects sounds good, but in general weapons are so much more fluid than ships that they're invariably tailored to whatever mod they belong to; it's pointless to have articles on them except in that capacity.
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Well some arechetypes and and missile models would be useful at least.
Have table entries that only need a few modifications to be usable for whatever mod.
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Been about a month and no volunteers yet? :(
I made a new barebones page here: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/User-Made_Weapons (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/User-Made_Weapons), but I'll need a wiki admin to slap it up on the MainPage's Nav panel to be accessable.
Also, I have no clue as to how to organize the weapons just yet, nor do I really have the time at the moment to fill this out. It would be much appreciated if the various mod and campaign owners would help out here. :D
Edit: Yay! Thank you, Black Wolf, for linking it on the nav panel!
Also, those of you following this topic may be interested to know that there's a poll going on here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=89280.msg1778613#msg1778613). Go vote! :yes: