[Thorn]

Is is possible? Can you have a primary weapon that uses a model instead of an image? Would make the Turanic Missile corvette a lot easier to do, cause it has an infinite amount of missiles...

[Sushi mk. 2]

I think you can- there's a place to enter a model file in the Weapons.tbl entries

[untouchable]

It should work in theory

[Darkage]

Venom did that a long time ago, it was also guided he just aplyed a glow to it to make it look like a guided laser but itwas just a .POF file coverd whit glows.

[aldo_14]

Yep.

Wraithhost did a model based primary, and the game originally used a model for the lasers (laser01.pof I think - it's in the vp files)

[CP5670]

The training laser uses that model. The missile thing is very easy to do actually; there are two tags in weapons.tbl called "#Primary Weapons" and "#Secondary Weapons" which each have their respective weapons listed beneath them. All you have to do is to copy a weapon's entry from the secondary to the primary, and maybe change a few things around (such as cargo size) to get it to work.

[delta_7890]

Hey, flak's a primary weapon, and that uses a model.

[Nico]

Originally posted by darkage
Venom did that a long time ago, it was also guided he just aplyed a glow to it to make it look like a guided laser but itwas just a .POF file coverd whit glows.

Actually, I did nothing, I just took an existing weapon ( the browning, you can get it in the d/l section at HLP) and changed the pof and some stats.
and for that weapon you're talking about darkage, it's just a basic secondary

[HotSnoJ]

I've work with the weapon table file. Well the first secondary primary like weapon I tried didn't work because secondary weapons can't use laser glows(the pcx image)

[Nico]

Originally posted by hotsnoj
I've work with the weapon table file. Well the first secondary primary like weapon I tried didn't work because secondary weapons can't use laser glows(the pcx image)

nope, tehy can't I used an engine glow on the pof

[Styxx]

You... cheater!

Heh, just joking. Nice idea, to use an engine glow to simulate guided lasers... hadn't thought of that. Then again, I never really had any use for those things.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Styxx
You... cheater!

Heh, just joking. Nice idea, to use an engine glow to simulate guided lasers... hadn't thought of that. Then again, I never really had any use for those things.

it's the closest I could do of the Omega canon in descent2 when I was working on my descent campaign

[Anaz]

on the original subject of this, if this missile cruiser of yours is a capitol ship, then it automatically has infinite missiles.

[WMCoolmon]