[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by StratComm

I always loved for this.

What, the "hehe" or what it does?  I don't see why that comment ever survived in all of the beam weapon entries (it's in every beam layer, which is rediculous) since the actual effect of the Zadd field is pretty obvious. [/B][/quote]

Let me guess, it adds a z-axis to the beam, making it 3D.

[StratComm]

Wow, that's a butchering of a quote if I've ever seen one.  Guess this thing isn't set up to deal with nested quotes properly.

Actually you're not far off.  It actually adds to the z-axis relative to the camera so that the beam layers will stack properly.  It doesn't actually make the beam 3d as it will appear on its side from all angles and is covered up by the beamglow and explosion graphics on the ends already, and if those are removed the beam will terminate abruptly with a straight line.