[Bobboau]

FOF can be thought of as sort of inacuracy, so far it only works on fighter pulse weapons

[ZylonBane]

Wait, isn't that functionality already implemented as +Miss Factor?

As long as beam bugs are getting fixed, how about the one that causes beams to collision-check against livedamage chunks that have already been destroyed? This can look pretty silly, with beams just stopping in mid-space.

[Bobboau]

it's _not_ a beam thingy

and I've never seen that before

[ZylonBane]

Try this--

Set up a mission with a beam shot intersecting one of the umbilicals of a Ganymede. Now disable the umbilicals in FRED and run the mission again. The beam should still be colliding with the now-nonexistant umbilical.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Bobboau
FOF can be thought of as sort of inacuracy, so far it only works on fighter pulse weapons

Capital ship pulse weapons too?

[Bobboau]

I havn't added any code to the turret fireing code yet

[Sesquipedalian]

Originally posted by IceFire

Capital ship pulse weapons too?

Why would you bother?  Avoiding capital ship weapons fire is too easy as it is already.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Bobboau
vaporised bug-fixed

Eh, what exactly is this?  Beams are supposed to vaporize everything.  If they don't, they should have a "no-vaporize" flag or something on them.  What exactly did you do here?

And you spelled "attenuate" wrong.  I fixed it.

[Bobboau]

I beleve I linked it to the huge flag, so if you were hit by a huge beam you would get vaporized if you were hit by a non-huge beam you would die like normal

[Goober5000]

Um, it would probably work better if you made a weapon flag to control this.  Beams, no matter what their size, should vaporize stuff by default.

Tell me where you changed it and I'll put in a flag.

[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Beams, no matter what their size, should vaporize stuff by default.

So an antifighter beam should vaporize a Sathanas? Riiiiiight...

[Goober5000]

Let me correct myself - beams, no matter what their size, should vaporize fighters by default.

[Bobboau]

I disagree, small (AAA) beams should not make fighters disapear when they kill them, I beleve this was a bit of a bug becase the origonal coments at the segment of code were this is determined say that only weapons that have both the beam and huge flag should vaporise small ships, and the code looks like it should have been doing that

[Terorist]

Originally posted by Bobboau
...that only weapons that have both the beam and huge flag should vaporise small ships, and the code looks like it should have been doing that

I agree, it makes the most sense. Small beams don't have the punch to totally disintegrate small ships, they are meant to just crack their hull.

[Killfrenzy]

Or carve them like a loaf of bread!

I like the Minbari Neutron beams, the way they carve through hulls.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I disagree, small (AAA) beams should not make fighters disapear when they kill them, I beleve this was a bit of a bug becase the origonal coments at the segment of code were this is determined say that only weapons that have both the beam and huge flag should vaporise small ships, and the code looks like it should have been doing that

Well, that's interesting.  And it makes sense.  Can you quote the comment?

[Bobboau]

this is the whole code snipet

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// If massive beam hitting small ship, vaporize  otherwise normal damage pipeline
// Only vaporize once
// multiplayer clients should skip this
if(!MULTIPLAYER_CLIENT){
if ( !(shipp->flags & SF_VAPORIZE) ) {
// Only small ships can be vaporized
if (sip->flags & (SIF_SMALL_SHIP)) {
if (other_obj->type == OBJ_BEAM) {
int beam_weapon_info_index = beam_get_weapon_info_index(other_obj);
if ( (beam_weapon_info_index > -1) && (Weapon_info[beam_weapon_info_index].wi_flags & (WIF_BEAM|WIF_HUGE)) ) {
// Flag as vaporized
shipp->flags |= SF_VAPORIZE;
}
}
}
}
}



I think this is untouched from the origonal reslese

[Goober5000]

Aha.  I stand corrected.  Good work Bobboau.