[Mustang19]

The "damage" you see in the weapons.tbl is actually the damage applied roughly every 1/5th of a second, varying according to framerate. So you can get a ballpark estimate of a beam's damage by multiplying five times damage times beam life time. Or you could use the idiot method and make a test mission. Either way works.


edit: Honestly, I don't know how Wanderer (or whoever) calculated the Wiki damage values, but I trust them.

[Admiral_Stones]

Uh... Stones. Admiral Stones.
Or simply Jerome, if you like.
Well, LRBGreen damage per second is 10'450. Multiplied by four seconds lifetime, this results to 41'800 damage. Even as term if you like:
10'450 ⋄ 4 = 41'800. Easy as that.

[karajorma]

That's the figure from ZylonBane's Beam FAQ too. I assume it came from there.

[Admiral_Stones]

I took all informations from the FS Wiki.

[Killer Whale]

I take information from the weapons table, not the wiki

[Admiral_Stones]

You are sayin' the Wiki is WRONG?

[Hades]

$Name:                     LRBGreen

$Model File:               none             ; laser1-1.pof
@Laser Bitmap:               laserglow01
@Laser Color:               0, 255, 54
@Laser Length:               0.0
@Laser Head Radius:            0.3
@Laser Tail Radius:            0.3
$Mass:                          100.0
$Velocity:                      2600.0            ;; speed of the weapon (initially) -- may or may not change
$Fire Wait:                     35.0            ;; in seconds
$Damage:                        1900            ;; NOTE: for beam weapons this is kind of a "continuous" damage applied every few fractions of a second that the beam is on.
$Armor Factor:                  1.0
$Shield Factor:                 1.0
$Subsystem Factor:              1.0
$Lifetime:                      30.0            ;; How long this thing lives
$Energy Consumed:               0.30            ;; Energy used when fired
$Cargo Size:                    0.0                ;; Amount of space taken up in weapon cargo
$Homing:                        NO
$LaunchSnd:                     125                ;; The sound it makes when fired
$ImpactSnd:                     88                 ;; The sound it makes when it hits something
+Weapon Range:               8000            ;; Limit to range at which weapon will actively target object
$Flags:                         ("Big Ship" "huge" "beam" "supercap")
$Icon:                          icongun05
$Anim:                          LoadGun07
$Impact Explosion:              ExpMissileHit1
$Impact Explosion Radius:       120.0
$BeamInfo:
   +Type:                  0               ;; 0 - 4 are valid #'s
   +Life:                    4.0               ;; how long it lasts once the beam is actually firing
   +Warmup:                 5000            ;; warmup time in ms
   +Warmdown:               3500            ;; warmdown time in ms
   +Radius:                 199.0            ;; muzzle glow radius in meters
   +PCount:               25               ;; particles spewed every interval
   +PRadius:               1.4               ;; particle radius
   +PAngle:               60.0            ;; angle of the random "cone" where the particles are generated
   +PAni:                  particleexp01      ;; particle ani
   +Miss Factor:            0.4 0.5 0.9 1.2 1.7            ;; magic # - higher == miss more (only really applicable to type 0 and type 3 beams)
   +BeamSound:               148               ;; the looping beam-firing sound
   +WarmupSound:            155               ;; associated warmup sound
   +WarmdownSound:            160               ;; associated warmdown sound
   +Muzzleglow:            beamglow3         ;; muzzle glow bitmap
   +Shots:                  0               ;; only used for TYPE 3 beams
   +ShrinkFactor:            0.1         ;; what percentage of lifetime where beam starts shrinking (0.1 == 10% life left)
   +ShrinkPct:               1.8         ;; what percentage of max width we subtract per second
   $Section:                              ;; one section of the beam (you can have up to 5)
      +Width:               90               ;; width of the section
      +Texture:            beam-red         ;; texture for this section
      +RGBA Inner:         255 255 255 255      ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
      +RGBA Outer:         150 150 150 10      ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
      +Flicker:            0.0               ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0)
      +Zadd:               4.0               ;; hehe
   $Section:                              ;; one section of the beam
      +Width:               110               ;; width of the section
      +Texture:            beam-green2         ;; texture for this section
      +RGBA Inner:         160 160 0 255      ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
      +RGBA Outer:         60 60 0 10         ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
      +Flicker:            0.45            ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0)
      +Zadd:               3.0               ;; hehe
   $Section:                              ;; one section of the beam (you can have up to 5)
      +Width:               130.0            ;; width of the section
      +Texture:            beam-green         ;; texture for this section
      +RGBA Inner:         255 255 255 255      ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
      +RGBA Outer:         150 150 150 10      ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
      +Flicker:            0.4               ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0)
      +Zadd:               2.0               ;; hehe
   $Section:                              ;; one section of the beam
      +Width:               180.0            ;; width of the section
      +Texture:            beam-green3         ;; texture for this section
      +RGBA Inner:         255 0 0 255         ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
      +RGBA Outer:         60 0 0 10         ;; rgba values (only for non-textured beam compiles)
      +Flicker:            0.5               ;; how much it flickers (0.0 to 1.0)
      +Zadd:               0.0               ;; hehe



; Bright light green         R 137   G 252   B 96
; High Energy Green          R 102   G 255   B 0
; Puke pale green             R 192   G 255   B 200
; Forest Green               R 2    G 142   B 18
; White Streek Green Tint      R 215   G 249   B 219

[Mustang19]

Thanks, Hades.

*snip*
$Damage:                        1900            ;; NOTE: for beam weapons this is kind of a "continuous" damage applied every few fractions of a second that the beam is on.

5 X 1900 = 9500 damage per second. The Wiki gives the LRBGreen's damage per second as 10450, so that should be right. Wanderer compiled all the Wiki weapon info, I think, so ask him if you want to know exactly how he did it. But damage/second for beams is roughly five times the table value, and again, it all depends on framerate.

[blowfish]

I heard it was 5.5 times per second, but if it is dependent on framerate then I think it doesn't really matter.  The wiki is correct though.

[Admiral_Stones]

But then it's 38'000 damage total, it will STILL take three shots to destroy a Ravana.
I think Kazan did something colossaly (get the joke) wrong.

[Hades]

I have tested it and it does destroyer a Ravana in one shot.

[Admiral_Stones]

Now what the ****.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

I have tested it and it does destroyer a Ravana in one shot.

Are you sure that your tables are still correct?

[blowfish]

If a BFGreen OR LRBGreen is destroying a Ravana in one shot, something is definitely not working the way it should.

[Hades]

Hold on I will try it again.
IT got the Ravana down to 24%.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

That's better already. Get it down to 58% in 1 shot and it'll be okay.

[Hades]

That's better already. Get it down to 58% in 1 shot and it'll be okay.

[Koth]

I just tested it and it brings it down to 58%. You must have some rogue tables flying around.

[Hades]

No my tables are fine.

[Kie99]

Did you test this with a FRED mission or using cheats to give yourself the weapon?