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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Hudzy on July 30, 2002, 11:26:26 am

Title: Kinetic Weapons
Post by: Hudzy on July 30, 2002, 11:26:26 am: What is needed in the weapons table to make a primary weapon have a kinetic effect, like the Morning Star?
Title: Kinetic Weapons
Post by: Zarax on July 30, 2002, 11:27:22 am: Mass. Increase it and you'll have kinetic effect
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Post by: Hudzy on July 30, 2002, 11:36:22 am: Ahh, I see. Thanks. :)
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Post by: Bri_Dog on July 30, 2002, 12:42:32 pm: don't increase it too much or the sreen will go jittery as hell
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Post by: vyper on July 30, 2002, 06:35:43 pm: *somehow sets infinite mass on Maxim*

*fires primary*

*gets sucked into black hole*

(Wonder what would happen if you set an object's speed to 3*10^8 (or 2.98 or whatever lightspeed is) and then fired it across the freespace engine?)
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Post by: Flipside on July 30, 2002, 07:02:39 pm: It crashes :(
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Post by: vyper on July 31, 2002, 05:32:46 am: Damn :(
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Post by: Martinus on July 31, 2002, 02:14:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Flipside
It crashes :(

The price of trying to bend the laws of physics. :wink:
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Post by: Killfrenzy on July 31, 2002, 03:27:53 pm: What about half the speed of light?
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on July 31, 2002, 08:46:30 pm: That would probably crash it too.
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Post by: Assassin on August 01, 2002, 07:35:42 am: Probably? I'm willing to take the risk, I'm going to try it BRB!

ps. Raarr the rules of physics? What a load of nonsence!
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Post by: Assassin on August 01, 2002, 07:42:23 am: It crashed. :(

BUT - speed of 80,000 is good. Also has some nice effects of how it knocks fighters backwards at 400m/s :)
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 04, 2002, 09:32:24 am: Set a ship speed to say 1500m/s and then fire your guns, they travel at normal speed so they go behind you, let them and then stop. See if they hit you.
Title: Kinetic Weapons
Post by: Solatar on August 04, 2002, 09:37:07 am: You can't kill yourself with your own weapons. Except from shockwaves. I've tried, many, many times.
Title: Zarax
Post by: Silver_Scythe on August 04, 2002, 12:10:35 pm: I couldnt help but notice your location, Redmond Washington or Oregon?
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Post by: aldo_14 on August 04, 2002, 01:20:10 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bri_Dog
don't increase it too much or the sreen will go jittery as hell

I think that only happens with the 'Shudder' flag.......... it's pretty neat, actually.
Title: Kinetic Weapons
Post by: Hudzy on August 04, 2002, 03:28:21 pm: The Maxim has the shudder tag and it's the only weapon i recall shuddering.
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Post by: an0n on August 04, 2002, 03:32:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hades
You can't kill yourself with your own weapons. Except from shockwaves. I've tried, many, many times.
Your own PRIMARY weapons. I've been blown to crap by my Needle missiles tons of times.
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Post by: Solatar on August 04, 2002, 03:42:50 pm: I've crashed into my own Helios, and Cyclops Torps, and nothing happens. weird.
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Post by: karajorma on August 04, 2002, 04:04:03 pm: It's pretty easy to kill yourself with fighter supression weapons like the inferno :)
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Post by: Hudzy on August 04, 2002, 04:12:14 pm: Or try using the flak guns as primaries. :nod: They seem to go bang on contact with vacuum.
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Post by: Flipside on August 04, 2002, 07:02:23 pm: Oh yes, and remember not to try those tricks with the Maxim when you have a force feedback joystick... my wrist may never be the same again :sigh: