[karajorma]

There is? For capships?

[StratComm]

I thought that's how they worked, they slowed down when their engines got close to going out.  Is it tied to damage instread?

[Goober5000]

Yeah... the funny thing is that it appears to be in two places.

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// AL 11-15-97: Rules for engine strength affecting max speed:
// 1. if strength >= 0.5 no affect
// 2. if strength < 0.5 then max_speed = sqrt(strength)
//
// This will translate to 71% max speed at 50% engines, and 31% max speed at 10% enginesand

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// routine to return the strength of a subsystem.  We keep a total hit tally for all subsystems
// which are similar (i.e. a total for all engines).  These routines will return a number between
// 0.0 and 1.0 which is the relative combined strength of the given subsystem type.  The number
// calculated for the engines is slightly different.  Once an engine reaches < 15% of it's hits, it's
// output drops to that %.  A dead engine has no output.From the code, it looks like the effects are cumulative, but from the test I just ran with a Deimos, it looks like only the first effect is used.  Odd.

[Omniscaper]

Yes... I ressurected a 8 month old thread... so sue me ...

Any developments in this thruster thingamabob? I've been slaving away with different heirarchy structs with a fighter class POF to get engines to cut out when its subobject is destroyed.

I'm trying to get my Viper to have 3 engines that can be shot out. Its annoying though because when I knock an engine out, its still glowing. Its damage model is showing, but the glows just keeo glowing. Is there anyway to disable thruster glows when it's corresponding subobject is taken out (without using Fred).

I've experimented using the "Special" tab in PCS and had duplicate engine names for both subobject AND "special" and I noticed a pissible GOOD glitch when one of the glowpoints stopped glowing... but it was the wrong one I believe.

[taylor]

Thrusters should turn off if the engine subsystem is destroyed.  It's based on thruster *banks* though and not the individual glows on the bank.  If recent builds aren't working like you expect then send me a copy of the problem model and any relevant data (tbls, images, etc.) and I'll get the code problem fixed.