Originally posted by Righteous1
I was refering to the AI weapon selection issue. I think it could be automated somewhat based on the targeted ship type or a SEXP could be used to control when alternate weapons are selected. If its automated, the mission designer has less control, if a sexp is used, he has more work. So the question is, what's your preference? [
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But this one is still on the back burner. I'll finish the Gunship update first.
OK, how this sounds then?:
If mission designer likes AI to take care of weapons control, he/she can then equips turrets with whatever weapons he/she likes. AI will take care if from there.
But if mission designer likes to have more control, designer can unequip weapons if necessary and then use events to switch or equip weapons. And then AI will take care of it from there.
Of course this event needs also primary/secondary and slot number information. If mission designer wants to switch a primary weapon in slot 1, then current one is replaced. But if designer switches it to slot 2 and that particular slot is empty, then nothing else happens but now that turret has two weapons and will use both.
But I wonder how we could define if turret/weapon can be used with another weapon or not? Example:
-Turret 1 is equipped with heavy cap ship beam and heavy pulse gun. It will use only either, not both at same time.
-Turret 2 is equipped with light pulse gun and flak gun, it will use both at same time.
How we can define what we want turret by turret?
I hope it would be something we can change in FRED2.
Originally posted by Righteous1
How large are these ships. I'm assuming something between a bomber and a corvette. The code uses several scaling factors for different effects based on ship size and I'm updating these for the new class.
Drazi FireHawk is ~350 meters long and almost 300 meters wide.
Centauri Vorchan is ~605 meters long and little over 800 meters wide.
Can't confirm WhiteStar size because I don't have it currently in my tables. But it should be around 250 meters long, don't remember how wide tho...
So basically lenght of gunships is 100-800 meters...