Author Topic: IDEA:Spawn ships out of thin air as a cheat (Read 8319 times)

Goober5000 · **Reply #20 on:** March 28, 2007, 08:32:02 am

It's actually pronounced "ess exp".

But I always mentally pronounced it as /seksp/.

Turey · **Reply #21 on:** March 28, 2007, 09:58:36 am

Quote from: Goober5000 on March 28, 2007, 08:32:02 am

But I always mentally pronounced it as /seksp/.

Ditto.

Grizzly · **Reply #22 on:** March 28, 2007, 10:18:36 am

Its funny to see that someone uses my idea of tags.

I pronounce it as: sex-pee

jr2 · **Reply #23 on:** March 28, 2007, 10:18:44 am

Err... it was 'ess exp'?

Too late now. I'm stuck on the other way. Gah!!

redsniper · **Reply #24 on:** March 29, 2007, 02:14:04 pm

jr2 · **Reply #25 on:** March 29, 2007, 02:17:47 pm

Yeah, I read that one, too!

Cobra · **Reply #26 on:** March 29, 2007, 05:28:39 pm

Quote from: takashi on March 26, 2007, 08:08:38 pm

i can make a missle that spawns ships, which in turn spawn missles, if thats what you want.

And arrrrwalktheplank works fine for me. I actually spawned about 30 Volition Bravos in The Mystery of the Trinity mission. No ship got through the flak.

Snail · **Reply #27 on:** March 29, 2007, 05:59:30 pm

Mah, VBravos sucks weapon-wise, really.

Bob-san · **Reply #28 on:** March 29, 2007, 06:20:09 pm

I like pancakes too... but waffles > pancakes! waffles&icecream > waffles > pancakes > pop tarts > nothing > cereal

Just modify the VBravo in the tables.

Photoncody · **Reply #29 on:** March 29, 2007, 06:34:15 pm

Quote from: Bob-san on March 29, 2007, 06:20:09 pm

I like pancakes too... but waffles > pancakes! waffles&icecream > waffles > pancakes > pop tarts > nothing > cereal

Just modify the VBravo in the tables.

How do I do that???

Turey · **Reply #30 on:** March 29, 2007, 06:49:47 pm

Quote from: Photoncody on March 29, 2007, 06:34:15 pm

Quote from: Bob-san on March 29, 2007, 06:20:09 pm
I like pancakes too... but waffles > pancakes! waffles&icecream > waffles > pancakes > pop tarts > nothing > cereal

Just modify the VBravo in the tables.
How do I do that???

Create a text file, put this in it:

Code: [Select]

#Ship Classes
$Name: @Volition Bravos
+nocreate
#End

Then, use the Wiki to fill in the stuff between +nocreate and #End.

jr2 · **Reply #31 on:** March 29, 2007, 08:11:20 pm

... save it as ships.tbm, and put it in your \data\tables folder, correct?

Photoncody · **Reply #32 on:** March 29, 2007, 09:01:22 pm

I HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF LUA AND IT IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE TUTORIAL PAGES DO NOT HELP AND I AM WANTING A MODDED VBRAVO SHIP BUT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!!!

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

Cobra · **Reply #33 on:** March 29, 2007, 09:16:50 pm

Whoah, whoah, calm down.

You don't need to know LUA programming to know how to edit tables.

Read Karajorma's FAQ. It'll tell you lots of things (though really it's the basics to help you get started) about modding Freespace.

Photoncody · **Reply #34 on:** March 29, 2007, 10:25:15 pm

It didn't work...

I tried editing the ships.tbl file, and it reset itself every time I tried editing it.

Just need to know....
Can anyone help?

-Photoncody

jr2 · **Reply #35 on:** March 29, 2007, 10:31:24 pm

Ah, you need to extract it from the .vp first. The extracted file will override the .vp file. See, VP files are a container file, with many files inside them. The files cannot be edited inside the .vp. You need to extract it. Inside the .vp are folders... FS looks for files in the real folders (the ones you can see in Windows Explorer) first; then in looks inside of the .vp. So, if you extract a file from the .vp, and place it in the actual directory, FS will not look at the file in the .vp, but will instead use the one you extracted.

Now, the file you're looking for is ships.tbl, you need to extract it from the .vp It is in the /data/tables directory inside of the .vp, so you need to place it in \FreeSpace2\data\tables, then you can edit the copy that is outside the .vp, and the one inside will not be used.

See?

Photoncody · **Reply #36 on:** March 29, 2007, 11:01:27 pm

Thank you jr2. Thanks VERY much!!!

jr2 · **Reply #37 on:** March 29, 2007, 11:14:22 pm

Goober5000 · **Reply #38 on:** March 30, 2007, 02:15:08 am

Quote from: redsniper on March 29, 2007, 02:14:04 pm

The FRED2 help is wrong about that. Just like IMDB was wrong about Stephen Baldwin voicing Snipes.

Sexps were used in LISP before they were used in FreeSpace. In fact, FreeSpace sexps are based on LISP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression

Photoncody · **Reply #39 on:** March 30, 2007, 09:02:05 am

Anyone know how to make the beam cannons on my VBravo ship? I keep trying to put fighters there, but they just don't fire. could anyone help?

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