[Killfrenzy]

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$Name:                          SWarpFlux
$Model File:                    none ; laser1-1.pof
@Laser Bitmap:                  laserglow01
@Laser Color: 250, 30, 30
@Laser Length: 0.0
@Laser Head Radius: 0.30
@Laser Tail Radius: 0.30
$Mass:                          100.0
$Velocity:                      1000.0          ;; speed of the weapon (initially) -- may or may not change
$Fire Wait:                     10.0            ;; in seconds
$Damage:                        2000 ;; NOTE: for beam weapons this is kind of a "continuous" damage applied every few fractions of a second that the beam is on.
$Armor Factor:                  1.0
$Shield Factor:                 1.0
$Subsystem Factor:              1.0
$Lifetime:                      25.0            ;; How long this thing lives
$Energy Consumed:               0.30            ;; Energy used when fired
$Cargo Size:                    0.0             ;; Amount of space taken up in weapon cargo
$Homing:                        NO
$LaunchSnd:                     125             ;; The sound it makes when fired
$ImpactSnd:                     88             ;; The sound it makes when it hits something
+Weapon Range: 7400 ;; Limit to range at which weapon will actively target object
$Flags:                         ("Big Ship" "huge" "beam")
$Icon:                          icongun05
$Anim:                          LoadGun07
$Impact Explosion:              ExpMissileHit1
$Impact Explosion Radius:       50.0
$BeamInfo:
+Type: 0 ;; 0 - 4 are valid #'s
+Life:   7.0 ;; how long it lasts once the beam is actually firing
+Warmup:   3700 ;; warmup time in ms
+Warmdown: 1500 ;; warmdown time in ms
+Radius:   40.0 ;; muzzle glow radius in meters
+PCount: 22 ;; particles spewed every interval
+PRadius: 2.2 ;; particle radius
+PAngle: 65.0 ;; angle of the random "cone" where the particles are generated
+PAni: particleexp01 ;; particle ani
+Miss Factor: 2.5 1.875 1.25 0.875 0.5 ;; magic # - higher == miss more (only really applicable to type 0 and type 3 beams)
+BeamSound: 178 ;; the looping beam-firing sound
+WarmupSound: 184 ;; associated warmup sound
+WarmdownSound: 188 ;; associated warmdown sound
+Muzzleglow: beamglow6 ;; muzzle glow bitmap
+Shots: 0 ;; only used for TYPE 3 beams
+ShrinkFactor: 0.1 ;; what percentage of lifetime where beam starts shrinking (0.1 == 10% life left)
+ShrinkPct: 1.8 ;; what percentage of max width we subtract per second
$Section: ;; one section of the beam (you can have up to 5)
+Width: 5.0 ;; width of the section
+Texture: BlueWarpFlux ;; texture for this section
+RGBA Inner: 255 255 255 255 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
+RGBA Outer: 150 150 150 10 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
+Flicker: 0.1 ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0)
+Zadd: 2.0 ;; hehe
+Tile Factor 10.0 1
+Translation -10
$Section: ;; one section of the beam
+Width: 10.0 ;; width of the section
+Texture: GreenWarpFlux ;; texture for this section
+RGBA Inner: 160 160 0 255 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
+RGBA Outer: 60 60 0 10 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
+Flicker: 0.1 ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0)
+Zadd: 1.0 ;; hehe
+Tile Factor 10.0 1
+Translation -10
$Section: ;; one section of the beam
+Width: 15.0 ;; width of the section
+Texture: RedWarpFlux ;; texture for this section
+RGBA Inner: 255 0 0 255 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
+RGBA Outer: 60 0 0 10 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
+Flicker: 0.1 ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0)
+Zadd: 0.0 ;; hehe
+Tile Factor 10.0 1
+Translation -10
$Section: ;; one section of the beam
+Width: 20.0 ;; width of the section
+Texture: GoldWarpFlux ;; texture for this section
+RGBA Inner: 255 0 0 255 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
+RGBA Outer: 60 0 0 10 ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
+Flicker: 0.1 ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0)
+Zadd: 0.0 ;; hehe
+Tile Factor 10.0 1
+Translation -10


Everything except +Tile Factor and +Translation are accepted by FS2Open 3.5.5, but as soon as I put those lines in......'Error parsing Weapons.tbl'

[Sesquipedalian]

Hmm.  Try changing the translation value to -5 and see if it works then.

[Killfrenzy]

Nope.

It's almost as if the beam tiling code had been removed from the latest build.

[Woomeister]

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+Tile Factor 10.0, 1

Your missing a ',' before the tile type.

[Sesquipedalian]

There's no comma in my table, and it works quite happily.

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+Tile Factor: 10.0 1
+Translation: -3.0

[Sesquipedalian]

Here, download this and plug it into a clean weapons.tbl.  If it doesn't work, something odd is going on.

[Killfrenzy]

Will do.

I'll try the comma first though.

EDIT: Comma did nothing, but the SSLBeam did.

So, I ripped the SSLBeam apart and changed a few things, and this is the result:



If the pic doesn't work, blame Boomspeed, not me!

Excuse the clipping errors and all such. I'm still working on the effects and getting it to look right, so this isn't the final version but at least it's working!

[Woolie Wool]

Where did my lower jaw go? Oh, wait, there it is.

Now THAT is a beam.

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[Killfrenzy]

That is a Warp Flux beam cannon from The Swarm War. It appears about two thirds of the way through Act 3 of the story and allows capital ships to kill each other in moments!

That thing has a damage of 2000 and is on for 6 seconds! The BIG version does 4000 damage and is on for the same time!

It's very advanced tech, so only a few ships have them!

[Flipside]

Tis an awesome weapon

I'm going to sound really picky here, but the firing point for one of those beams is a little too far inside the ship, or underneath, I'm not too sure

Flipside

[Killfrenzy]

It's the position of the turrets. I've redesigned her and changed the turret position (reducing the number of turrets in the process) so the final ship *shouldn't* have that problem.

[Galemp]

Whooooaaaah... Now THAT'S a beam!

[Terawatt_99]

now that is uber-freakin' cool :yes:

[Killfrenzy]

Thanks guys. Glad you like it!

[Star Dragon]

I like it, especially how it has more than one color (sorta like a lightning version of an Aurora)...

  I'm trying to make a lightning weapon myself but have had a lot of trouble. Especially since I am limited to fighter weapons at this point (don't know code or beams). I finally got a passable phaser for fighters (using Sreds of cap ships). And was wondering would it be possible to make a fighter version of the WarpFlux beam?

[Killfrenzy]

It's perfectly possible with the right effects. You just shrink the size and damage proportionately and muck about with beam tiling and translation.

I got the effects off Sigma, so you'll probably have to ask him if it's okay to use them as a basis for you to work from.

I can certainly make you a table file, but they're Sigma's effects and he doesn't want me to re-distribute them.