[Spoon]

2. An $Acceleration Time tabling option for secondaries, which controls how long it takes for the weapon to attain full speed, regardless of whether it's dumbfired or locked-on.

Question: Weapon range is calculated Velocity times Lifetime. How does this feature affect things on that end?

[zookeeper]

2. An $Acceleration Time tabling option for secondaries, which controls how long it takes for the weapon to attain full speed, regardless of whether it's dumbfired or locked-on.

Question: Weapon range is calculated Velocity times Lifetime. How does this feature affect things on that end?

Err, I'm not sure, will have to check.

[Spoon]

Please do, its kind of super important

[Nuke]

lots of good stuff in there.

[zookeeper]

Question: Weapon range is calculated Velocity times Lifetime. How does this feature affect things on that end?

Err, I'm not sure, will have to check.

Ok, I checked!

So, it depends. If you just mean the distance the weapon will actually travel, then yes, using the feature will shorten that. However, the +Weapon Range table entry only affects the distance at which the AI will consider firing, and it is not affected; if not specified, then the real range (taking acceleration into consideration) will be used (after a revision to my patch, anyway).

I'll (finally) be putting those three features in sometime soon. I was worried that the acceleration would screw up AI dumbfire aiming and that it'd be difficult to compensate for, but it seems that the AI doesn't know how to properly aim dumbfires anyway so it won't hurt after all.

[z64555]

I should point out that v*t only works if the projectile is not/will not accelerate... 

[zookeeper]

I should point out that v*t only works if the projectile is not/will not accelerate... 

That's... exactly what we were discussing, no?

[z64555]

I should point out that v*t only works if the projectile is not/will not accelerate... 

That's... exactly what we were discussing, no?

Oh sorry, I missed the last bit of your previous post, somehow. lol

[zookeeper]

As of the latest nightly, all three are now in. If you find the interaction of "no homing speed ramp", $Acceleration Time and $Free Flight Time hard to understand (since they're all related to the same thing, after all), do say so and I'll try to clarify the documentation.