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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: DefCynodont119 on September 20, 2019, 07:25:58 pm
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So I'm trying to extract the SAAA and S-AAA-Weak in complete, MVP, single, standalone table form- IE: The weapons in their full table state with all the MVP edits already put in. no separate tbm's. kind of like how BtA does things.
I know I could just open up the retail table file and dig for the 2 or 3 Mvp tbm's that edit those weapons and merge them manually. . .
Adding and Overwriting code line by line. . .
with tons of room for me to make errors. . . (I know about the Wiki, but it can still be tedious to go though and not misplace things)
but. . . :/
I'm just wondering if there is an easier way to do this? FRED has the TBL view button that shows the combined tbl and tbm edits for a selected ship, but there is no option like this for weapons as far as I know.
Any advice would be helpful. Thank you.
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Sadly, there's no other way. :sigh: You could ask if the MVPs could change their TBM structure (as AFAIK, nobody ever used only parts of them, aside high-res stuff) to make it easier to mod... but that's probably it.
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The MediaVPs .tbms don't add functionality* so they are safe to disregard anyway. Personally I wouldn't bother updating my special issue versions of FS2 weapons if it wasn't breaking visual cohesion.
* (the only edge case being beams overpentrating targets at low hull value)
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Well getting consistent, improved graphics is actually the point behind DefCynodonts question I presume...
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* (the only edge case being beams overpentrating targets at low hull value)
Actually, I'm pretty sure that beam overpenetration is a retail thing, the MVPs only added the flamy bits that come out alongside the beam on the other side.
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It's indeed present since retail, but MVPs also added damage types so it doesn't happen random anymore.
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aww man, thanks anyway. Strange that there is no workaround tho. .
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This is FS, what do you expect? ;)
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FRED has the TBL view button that shows the combined tbl and tbm edits for a selected ship, but there is no option like this for weapons as far as I know.
That would be a nice feature request for FRED: an "export TBM" button that spits out one text file with all the consolidated data for that item.
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* (the only edge case being beams overpentrating targets at low hull value)
Actually, I'm pretty sure that beam overpenetration is a retail thing, the MVPs only added the flamy bits that come out alongside the beam on the other side.
Also added that happening at hull percents >0. And it was actually a BP feature that was instantly donated to the MVPs!
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It happens quite random, in particular with large beams piercing through small cruisers. Sometimes it doesn't pierce, sometimes it does but no fire spew even with armor and damage type specified.