[Dragon]

It seems that the whole collision damage calculation is due to a revision and value exposing. Right now, it's rather inflexible, and the formula seems arcane.
For example, it'd be nice if collision damage could be easily controlled, and ships could be forced to vaporize on a crash. Perhaps a special effect could be defined when crashing into a specific model (useful for ships with unusual hulls or landscape models). I'd also like to be able to make a ship vanish upon a crash (combined with the previous effect, it'd make for a neat "splashdown" effect in the water). I'm sure other modders can think of more uses.

[MatthTheGeek]

inb4stopBackseatCoding

[karajorma]

inb4nextidiotwhothinkstheywon'tgetasmackforaninb4

Seriously though, there is nothing wrong with Dragon's post.

[Nuke]

damage calculation code is insanely complicated (im not even sure if the same code is used to compute collision damage). i dont ever want to look at that code again.

[assasing123]

Yet you will have to look at it eventually, personally tho i m more curious about the mass behavior inertia and related, specially when defining it on POF files.

[Nuke]

hell no. ive seen it when trying to figure out how to set where difficulty based damage scaling is computed, so that people writing an armor table can decide to do it first, last, or in an arbitrary spot in their computations. i still have nightmares about it. im just going to stay away from damage code from this point forward.

[assasing123]

hmm do collisions type damage can be defined in tables? could at least be used along with armors tbl to hack them into doing more or less damage.