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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Pegasus V on August 29, 2002, 11:30:06 pm

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Pegasus V on August 29, 2002, 11:30:06 pm

I've made a mod that makes all of the Terran Turrets, well all of the plamsa pulse turret weaponry, fire twice as frequently and travel twice as fast. The result is very similar to the FS2-intro-cutscene. It makes it look a whole lot better.

Of course this makes the Bessmer Kohn cannons twice as deadly, but so they should be.

Do you think this is a good idea, or should I stick with :v:?

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 30, 2002, 12:22:59 am

Whats a bessmehr Kohn cannon?  and making them double everything id good, I mean a 2K destroyer should have an energy equivalent to a british Goalkeeper, or a Vulcan Phalanx cannon  (make and model). instead of a slow giant blobby sneeze of a AF / AC turret.

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Zarax on August 30, 2002, 12:35:17 am

Well, in Rise of GCA plasma turrets have been improved...
But how can i set them to travel the same speed they did in FS1?

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Pegasus V on August 30, 2002, 12:41:24 am

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Originally posted by Zarax
Well, in Rise of GCA plasma turrets have been improved...
But how can i set them to travel the same speed they did in FS1?

Actually, in FS1 the stats for the turrets are identical to FS2. It's just in the FS2-intro-cutscene that we get to see what they're really supposed to look like, and that's what I based it on.

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Zarax on August 30, 2002, 01:11:21 am

Are you sure?
In FS Port they are fast, but with FS2 TBL the plasma shots are slow as hell...
I set them with speed = 400, i would like a suggestion...

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Shrike on August 30, 2002, 01:15:21 am

You'll see something similar in BWO and MT.

My very old Shrike's Arsenal included that kind of modification.

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: tomcat on August 30, 2002, 02:20:32 am

Try this
$Name:                        CR Light TwinArray
$Model File:                  none
@Laser Bitmap:                cr_particle2
@Laser Glow:                  generic_g1
@Laser Color:                 220, 0, 0
@Laser Color2:                200, 10, 10
@Laser Length:                12
@Laser Head Radius:           4.0
@Laser Tail Radius:           4.0
$Mass:                        0.4
$Velocity:                    650.0
$Fire Wait:                   1.0
$Damage:                      54
$Armor Factor:                1.00
$Shield Factor:               0.85
$Subsystem Factor:            0.8
$Lifetime:                    5.0
$Energy Consumed:             0.30
$Cargo Size:                  0.0
$Homing:                      NO
$Swarm:            3
$LaunchSnd:                   163
$ImpactSnd:                   85
+Weapon Range:                3000
$Flags:                       ("Big Ship")
$Icon:                        icongun0
$Anim:                        LoadGun02
$Impact Explosion:              ExpMissileHit1
$Impact Explosion Radius:       10.0

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Pegasus V on August 30, 2002, 02:42:06 am

uh, why would I want to try that? I can see from here that it won't work. We don't have your custom made laser glows etc... :wtf:

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: tomcat on August 30, 2002, 03:55:00 am

don't be hard head now...
i was refering to the weapon params..make abstraction of what u don't have and replace with what u have..pay attention to $SWARM

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: deep_eyes on August 30, 2002, 11:04:34 am

Sandwich made some turrets the other month like that. They hella cool and made most "normalized" bomber and fighter attacks obsolite. for christe sakes the turrets fire almost 4 times the original distance, and witha  higher refire reate.

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: IceFire on August 30, 2002, 12:30:18 pm

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Originally posted by tomcat
don't be hard head now...
i was refering to the weapon params..make abstraction of what u don't have and replace with what u have..pay attention to $SWARM

Definately cool if you have a rotating turret :D

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Nico on August 30, 2002, 01:02:45 pm

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Originally posted by Shrike
You'll see something similar in BWO and MT.

My very old Shrike's Arsenal included that kind of modification.

In OTT too. I guess everybody likes fast firing turrets :p

Title: Plasma Pulse Based Weaponry for Capital Ships
Post by: Solatar on August 30, 2002, 02:26:40 pm

yeah laser turrets now aren't at all dangerous. Unless you are playing on insane, in Ulysses, with no shields, standing still.