[IcyScythe]

Is there any way to target "nearest hostile missile after you"? I know B targets bombs but does it work on missiles? It's incredibly hard to evade missiles without countermeasures if you can't see them!

[Turey]

doesn't a yellow arrow on the HUD point to a missile?

[haloboy100]

yeah, but you can't actually target them.

[Einstine909]

For what u want to do, there would be table editing involved. Go to the Wiki and look for the tables, then in the weapons table find the "bomb" flag. On every missile but the bomb flag on.

But that will have some VERY interesting AI behaviors being set off...

[haloboy100]

i think you should leave the missile targeting aspect to the Star Wars Conversion team.

[Game_Master64]

For what u want to do, there would be table editing involved. Go to the Wiki and look for the tables, then in the weapons table find the "bomb" flag. On every missile but the bomb flag on.

But that will have some VERY interesting AI behaviors being set off...

As you said, bad idea. Then the ai will stop using the missiles on you, and only fire them at cap ships, rendering them more uselss then they already are (i'm refering to you own wingmen)

[Snail]

BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD idea.

[Hades]

BAD.

[Mobius]

What's the point in target missiles? They're fast, and they rapidly reach their target. They may have been specificately designed to be untargetable!

[Snail]

Or do not have an EM signature large enough to be targeted.

[ShivanSpS]

I no know him, but personally i was intend to use some king of "missile view", because i wish to use it to make cutscenes, i want a cam who follow the missile when destroy a fighter, for targeting the missile i placed the "bomb" flag in the missile, but still, not even bombs allow "target view"

[karajorma]

Is there any way to target "nearest hostile missile after you"? I know B targets bombs but does it work on missiles? It's incredibly hard to evade missiles without countermeasures if you can't see them!

I have the code for that thanks to Ni1s. I'll be adding it to the codebase at some point but it's only appearing in FSO 3.7 though so if you want it soon you'll need one of the more makeshift solutions others have posted.

[akenbosch]

i make a missle a ship (like WCS's cruise missle) and give it kamikaze orders for s specific ship. this is also how im working out the "player commanded torpedos".

[Prophet]

Before SCP there was some dude who did some new code. Mainly added nice impact effects for weapons. But he also added a marker for each incoming missile. It was just a small transparent ring around the missile. Made them easy to spot and evade. IRC the rings only showed around missiles homing towards the playar and didn't obstruct view or anything. So when a fighter was coming at you head on and launched a swarm of hornets, a bunch of orange(ish) rings would appear around the missiles. It was easy to identify, target and launch a retaliation at the enemy while at the same time keeping an eye on the approaching rings.

I think I suggested such feature to the SCP at some point. But as usual I got the "that's stupid idea and it will never work" response from someone...

[Snail]

Awww... Sounds like a cool thing, though.

[Mobius]

Interesting...is there a way to have it back? I like the orange ring idea.

[Snail]

It was before the Source Code Project, when people were just fumbling around with the code and there were 20 different unofficial builds to choose from, sporting "stencil shadows!!!" or "AUTOMATIC BEEM FREEEES OMG".

So it's probably lost now.

[Mobius]

I see...but the SCP team should be able to recreate this feature. They have a lot of experience, right?

[Prophet]

Lucky for you I had at the time what nowdays could be called piece of crap rig with little or no space on the hard drive. So occasionally I found my self burning useless junk on CD.

I think I have it here. Komet's Mod... Size is 1066 KB packed so I can't attach it here. But if someone is interested, I can supply it for you by your preferred method...

[Mobius]

UL it on Hades Combine(as soon as the site comes back online). I'm interested on it and I can't wait...so please send me the mod via e-mail. Thanks