[Mobius]

How do I manage glowpoints? It was possible with PCS, if I remember well, but PCS 2.0 doesn't let me to do it. I'd like to add a trail as well, but I simply don't know how.

Snail, the Blip()is some sort of big triangle. Replacing the texture resulted in an odd effect

EDIT: Wait, I think I can do it...

[Trivial Psychic]

Is it possible to create countermeasures that are for specific types of missiles?  Flares for example, would only decoy heat-seeking missiles, and perhaps chaff could decoy aspect-seeking missiles.

[Wanderer]

Yes

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Weapons.tbl#.24Countermeasure:

[Mobius]

Sorry, but I don't see anything related to specific kinds of missiles in the "Countermeasures" section...

[Wanderer]

Hmm.. seems like it didnt like the link.. Well there are these options...

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+Heat Effectiveness:
+Aspect Effectiveness:

[Mobius]

I need to add them under the countermeasure's name, right? Like "+nocreate" in ships.tbl?

[Wanderer]

As explained - sorta - in weapons.tbl wiki page...

They go to the weapons table entry and should even work assuming the weapon in question has 'countermeasure' flag.

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$Countermeasure:
   +Heat Effectiveness: <float - default: 1.0>
   +Aspect Effectiveness: <float - default: 1.0>
   +Effective Radius: <float - 300.0>

[WMCoolmon]

You can also try the laser renderer...

[Aardwolf]

Can we have beam secondaries/countermeasures/spawned weapons?

[Topgun]

does this mean that we can have countermeasures that spawn little shrapnel missiles?

[Mobius]

I'd like to know if we can have Terran, Vasudan and Shivan countermeasures...maybe not necessarily different in terms of effectiveness but rather in terms of appeareance...

[Wanderer]

I'd like to know if we can have Terran, Vasudan and Shivan countermeasures...maybe not necessarily different in terms of effectiveness but rather in terms of appeareance...

Yes. It is possible.

[Mobius]

How?

[Snail]

You have to make a new countermeasure entry in the weapons.tbl, then you have to define this entry in the $Countermeasure Type: field of the ships.tbl with the relevant ship.

[Mobius]

Does that field have to be added? If so, where?

I don't remember that field, it must be a new addition.

[Snail]

Does that field have to be added? If so, where?

I don't remember that field, it must be a new addition.

Yeah, it is a new addition.

You add it just above $Countermeasures: (the retail field dictating how many countermeasures the ship can carry).

[Mobius]

In order to do that I need possible candidates...

[WMCoolmon]

Can we have beam secondaries/countermeasures/spawned weapons?

Beams use a different set of code than ordinary weapons so my off-the-cuff guess would be no.

does this mean that we can have countermeasures that spawn little shrapnel missiles?

You should be able to. However, my answer is in the same vein as the above - I can make educated guesses but I can't state for sure. There's a thousand different ways you can set up weapon variables and obviously I didn't test them all. The more reliable thing to do is to create a new modular table

wpntest-shp.tbm

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#Ship Classes
$Name: GTF Myrmidon
$Countermeasure Type: GTM-10 Piranha
#End
load up a mission with the Myrmidon, and test it out (by launching a countermeasure). Note that I pulled the Piranha name from the wiki, not from the tables, so it might not be correct.

[ssmit132]

wpntest-shp.tbm

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#Ship Classes
$Name: GTF Myrmidon
$Countermeasure Type: GTM-10 Piranha
#End
load up a mission with the Myrmidon, and test it out (by launching a countermeasure). Note that I pulled the Piranha name from the wiki, not from the tables, so it might not be correct.

It's just Piranha if you're defining something using the weapon.

[WMCoolmon]

Thanks.