[Lightspeed]

I know that spot of the Iblis. Doesn't matter since it has an afterburner glow, most V missiles also have that missing spot.

Not being able to equip them in FRED is weird, i'll have a look.

[.::Tin Can::.]

Hello, Im relatively new to the world of "actual" modding, instead I did levels on FRED2 for a while now and am making a current defense mission, which might be really cool, I dont know.

Anyways, I have a serious n00b question. When I try to install the special weapon effects, I dont know where what goes where! I read the instuctions but it just says "Models go in the models folder, ani's and pictures go in the whatever folder" etc, etc. Well, I dont know which files are which, so, I really need help to determine which ones go where. Thanx.

[StratComm]

For lightspeed's weapons stuff, anything ending with .tbl goes in tables, anything ending with .pof goes in models, and everything else goes in effects.  The only exception are the textures for the missiles, though hopefully they have been packaged differently as to stand out.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Target .::Tin Can::.. Target Locked. Fire.



Welcome to HLP. There are exits to the left and rear. Do not attempt to use them. Under your seat you will find empty beer cans, cookie crumbs, corpses of newbies, dog eared dungeon Porn mags left by Shrike... oh, and a Flamethrower. Unfortunately, we're out of napalm, so you'll have to bludgeon people to death with them.

In the event of serious conflict, there are plasma rifles in the forward locker, though these can only be opened by an Admin, [V], God, or Hyperintelligent shade of the colour Blue. If, for whatever reason, you find yourself crawling around in the ductwork, there's a better than average chance you'll encounter a Shivan. They're easy to spot with the five legs and all. If you're lucky, it's just Carl, who responds well to food rewards. If not, then at least you die quickly. Be aware that the entrance to the main control room is guarded by subspatial claymore mines.

Do not mention FS3. Karajorma's FAQ is your friend. Worship SCP team as Gods. Have a nice day.

[redmenace]

Don't spell Karajorma wrong either: he takes it as an insult more so than mentioning FS3.

[Sandwich]

Mmmmm turrents....

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by StratComm
For lightspeed's weapons stuff, anything ending with .tbl goes in tables, anything ending with .pof goes in models, and everything else goes in effects.  The only exception are the textures for the missiles, though hopefully they have been packaged differently as to stand out.

you can put the textures to effects as well, actually it doesn't really matter *where* you put them. But from the naming it should be somewhat obvious, as all effects are called [weaponname]-glow, [weaponname]-particle, [weaponname]-bitmap, etc.

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Jonathan_S47
I have noticed a couple of problems with the new missiles. 1. I cannot equip them on any shiven fighter or bomber in Fred but I can equip them on capital ships.  

Bug found and eliminated.

[.::Tin Can::.]

So then... does anyone have a link to the LATEST one? The thread with the update of all the latest things was confusing because it had lots of links to stuff. Mainly because when I put the weapons from the link PROVIDED it says "error parsing weapons.tbl" and it makes my weapons disapear and they just arent there. I dont get it either...

[Lightspeed]

Latest build can be found in the first post of this thread, or with every release post (like this one )

Shivan special issue. Try it, and guess what's special

(looking in the tables ruins the fun)





FS2_new_weapon_FX_v0.2d

Also fixes a couple of bugs - for example it allows you to actually equip the extra missiles and unknown bombs without NotePad.

[Bobboau]

make the graphic semetrical and have it go from white to red, rather than yellow to red (yellow isn't a very shivan looking color)

[karajorma]

Two links which may help you Tin Can.

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/index.php/Installing - A guide to installing FS2 Open.

and my own FAQ (link below). Have a look at the Freespace directory structure section for a more detailed explaination of where to put everything.

To be honest though dumping everything from LightSpeeds's download in your data folder will work. The reason we tell everyone to put things in subfolders is that it can very quickly get messy and cause you problems later on if you don't keep things tidy from the start.

[Lightspeed]

It's supposed to be non-symmetrical
I wanted it animated originally, but ANIs do not work with laser bitmaps somehow.

About the yellow... it's a special issue weapon. You could call it 'special' both in appearance and behaviour.

[Bobboau]

well the symitry issue just makes it look unrealistic
the yellow just makes it look like just another tarren/vasudan weapon (especaly when being fired from an Aries) I supose if it's and EMP weapon or something it could be excused, but I thinng green would be better given that it is the spectral oposite of red

[Lightspeed]

Green would look aweful when fading to red. And the Ares will not fire it anyway.

That, and it's only yellow for a really short distance, after which it's solid red.

[Taristin]

What I want to see is capship turrets with powerful trails.

I rigged the Terran Turret to use the lamprey trails you made, and it was halfway decent, but I don't really know the table coding...

[Trivial Psychic]

So which of the original Shivan weapons does this replace?  Which of the 3 standard lasers (light, heavy, ultra) does this most approximate as far as dammage factors?

Later!

[.::Tin Can::.]

Unknown. Maybe some of the developers have some answers. BTW, I've always thought of a little something you could do in the game where you could activate a sensor mode where you go invisible to sensors for about 5 seconds, making aspect lock impossible. But, that was just a thought.

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
So which of the original Shivan weapons does this replace?  Which of the 3 standard lasers (light, heavy, ultra) does this most approximate as far as dammage factors?

Later!

None of them. As i said it was special

First one to find out without looking at the tables will get a cookie.

[Taristin]

It's probably a Shivan Kayser...