nps AI Beam weapons.

Ok, i see it now. It is....um....

Well anyway, how about this, If only the AI had beam weapons, and they only had a firing arc of <5 degrees. Would the 'laser show' affect be reduced some whaT?

OK, I have fixed this:



All I did was pumping the bolt speed up to 10,000,000 m/s. But now there is no beam firing sounds and animation (two beams moving together and apart from each other). And when aim assistant is off it doesn´t do any damage. Maybe I messed some setup scenes up?

Originally posted by Vladimir



There is still a bug on my beam -- when you or your target is moving, the beam, how to say, "multyplies" and you get a @£$##¤ laser-show. I don´t know how to fix it. But if you´re interested, Gtrout, I´ll make some changes and send it to you on Sunday. It´s about 10kB.

Have you tried setting turret_mode = 1 in the turrets .ini file,
then it will only fire at the target the player currently has selected, and not all over the place at any target it can find



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Heh, Major, this is not a turret, this is a cannon that looks like a beam.

Anyways, the sound problem is now fixed (just a spelling mistake in .ini file) but the other problems remain.

Well for me I only want it for the AI. E.g. the tugs will get a coms laser. And frog flitters will have a mining beam, and some corvettes and patcoms are going to give you a nasty surpize with cutting beam....

And then there are the cap ships....

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*crazy idea warning* the following post may be totally insane.

Here are a few trimmed bits from the heavy_pbc setup_effects.lws file (not the bolt, the cannon):

AddNullObject <anim channel="fire?o(5.0)">

AddNullObject <node template=ini||audio|sfx|heavy_pbc>
ParentObject 1

AddLight
LightName FlashFlare
ParentObject 1

Perhaps I misunderstand this file, but it looks to me like when this cannon fires a null will keyframe into action, that will bring a sound into existance, and a flash object. (Perhaps SecondChance can decode this animation channel string?)

Would it be possible to bring the beam avatar into existance at this point as well? So that when this cannon fires, a beam is created out of the front of the weapon?



-Gtrout