Conventional Modding

You’ve opened three options but only one has been closed.

Well…

I’m gonna wait for version 3.x!!

Maybe it’ll support single-core too!

Tried this once and it didnt work…cant remember the errors.

But, im up for giving things second chances. Thanks.

Since it takes the cosine, 345 == 15 and 320 == 40; try with the smaller numbers and you should see the same effect.

Impressive as DV would say, love everything about that, grtz 🙂

Hehe only been modding 1k hrs reloading full mod lol

Yep, don’t feel bad, it’s a good pointer for someone else as a reminder. I need glasses at the best of times to find problems like that one.

But as you can see we couldn’t really help without your data in sight.

I think balance does not depend on increase in capacities.

Efficiency of weapons depends of target shield (if using shields in mod 😉 - graviton, proton, neutron - here on it it is possible to play

In additives it is possible to develop the types of guns and shields technolgies (“here and develop!”, you will tell 😉

So imho need to balance only efficiency of guns

Sample file, credits Phil aka FireDragon

The problem is only that restart.fl gathers data that is specific to the mod. It could, for example, refer to a ship that only the mod has.

When another mod is switched on, the reference breaks and FL crashes. There isn’t much to be done about it I’m afraid, other than entirely stopping FL from creating or using the file.

Gisteron wrote:
first ofc is makeing their weapons fire longer (lifetime and velocity of projectile section). second, you need either to put in their loadouts a scanner with a longer range (base scanner?) or to edit their usual scanner’s range. the npc does not see you, but you can select a target via the contact list and follow the direction your hud shows. imagine that the npc’s brain work just like this, their scanner is their only way to see something.

thx bud, that was the ticket.

Moonhead wrote:
Oh, the error in the ini files is a Rhienland ship somewhere.

There are many such errors in the files (particularly suprise and sheild). Didn’t bother fixing those, since they’re internal and consistent. Won’t worry about changing ambiance, either, since that could be thought of as French.

I just didn’t expect you’d actually decrypt the entire format all over again as the ALE editor already existed. It’s great to know you’ve got it though!

there are some sounds in the audio folder not used ingame (e.g. nomad shield sounds due to that nomads have no shields). you can also, as far as you are allowed to, use sound fx from other games, you just have to know how to convert them properly to either wav or riff wav so fl can read them. in general: google is your friend. there are lots and lots of sound fx on the web, even open source or at least available for use in projects, often enough even for free. you just might need a program that can handle different formats and packages and convert them to wav or mp3 (which you then would need to pack into a wav container).

ANY hardpoint that is defined in the cmp/3db correctly (recognized in the hardcmp and visual in utf editor) can be asked for in the ini. i guess it is possible to make kinda loadout for the projectiles i am not sure though. at least you can add multiple trail lines, who direct to different hardpoints. in this way you could define trails that are actually simple effects. if those attach always to the hardpoint (defined in the ale file itself likely), such an action will result in a constant effect attached to the projectile’s running light hardpoint.

:lol: The first faction-adding tutorial I found is one that I wrote myself!

I already had the idea it seemed familiar, but when it introduced the ‘Vereenigde Omega Compagnie’ I knew it for sure (this is ofcourse a reference to the VOC, the ‘Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie’ or United East-Indian Company, a Dutch trade organisation from the 17th century, and in fact the first Ltd.)

It is badly rendered here, with a lot of

It seems that part of the function is only called if the object has collision groups (restoring the original Flint still broke; commenting the [CollisionGroup] entries failed to break). Even so, these particular collision groups are different to the battleship ones, generating a radius of 0 (it skips the bounding sphere altogether).

youre right, the rotations could be tricky.
sorry, i dont remember what it was called.
yes, mine would have a GUI. but dont expect it anytime soon as im currently working on the next void mod, and have a few other programs in the works as well.

@Xarian: Tried just typing the ID in the IDS textbox? 😛

If you mean just the local DLL ID, I thought I had a box for that somewhere…

Nice question…

Just to give you some answer at least, I think there are 3 parameters that affect this, but not sure which one alone:-

1. radius in the .sur file - should it be same as the one in the .cmp file?

2. solar_radius (solararch.ini)

3. docking_sphere (solararch.ini)

Maybe someone else has played with this?