Help needed Error checking my MOD (German)

adoxa

Not really. If you can see the mines, I guess the [Asteroids] section and its file are okay. You’ll have to check what type of asteroid you have (from the asteroid file); its definition in DATA\SOLAR\asteroidarch.ini; and its explosion in DATA\FX\explosions.ini. Sure you’re ship is just not noticing the damage?

Gisteron

probably earlier you had a weeker shield/armor

J.R.

Thats the point… tested several ships and everywhere the same effect
even with weak shields and Starflier ship.
Very strange thou… cos it worked fine a view weaks ago…
The ship is NOT noticing the damage…
Maybe a FLHOOK issue or some of my commodities_info with
volume = 0 that I ve added to display some Text to the Pilot in Cargo… or…
I dont know folks… this is so anoying…

Gisteron

did you change anything relative to it?

J.R.

Nope… just added a path inside the field inside the minefield (theres a Base inside)
with cargo-scanning patrols.
But even outside the minefield the mines explode but do NO DAMGE !

Thats what I found in explosion_ini:
effect = gf_explosion_smallship04, 0.000000

Gisteron

well, what do you expect us to answer… difficult case without any code samples. i suggest you to take the zone 21 in new york as a reference to do it correctly.

J.R.

Right.
Made an extra file in astroids and it all worked fine…. but not anymore…
Thats what I found in explosion_ini:
effect = gf_explosion_smallship04, 0.000000

Gisteron

the effect is irrelevant. only thing that matters are the damage value(s) and the explosion radius.

M1C

sorry for off-topic but: How to activate the logging into Fl-Spew.txt?

adoxa

FLSpew.txt is always logged; you need a patch to disable it. It’s located at %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Freelancer\FLSpew.txt (on XP, anyway). A custom log file can be created by changing the log values in EXE\freelancer.ini.

Taking Zone-21 as an example, we have:

UNIVERSE\SYSTEMS\LI01\li01.ini
file = solar\asteroids\Li01_zone21_mine_field.ini

SOLAR\ASTEROIDS\li01_zone_21mine_field.ini
asteroid = mine_spike1, -0.9, 0, 0.05, 110, 0, 10, mine

SOLAR\asteroidarch.ini
nickname = mine_spike1
explosion_arch = explosion_large_mine

FX\explosions.ini
nickname = explosion_large_mine
radius = 200
hull_damage = 40000

If you’re not taking damage, I guess something along this chain is broken.

J.R.

Have finally found the error:
I did change the value
[ShieldEquipConsts]
HULL_DAMAGE_FACTOR = 0 in constants.ini and had the shield
damage of all the weapons redone manually.
Since there is no energy-damage-value in explosions.ini…
so… I just added one for all explosions with hull_damage and everything is fine !!!

I am glad to have you folks here to help me with hinds.
Adoxa seems to be the magic in person afaic see here.
Thanx AGAIN !!!
Greetings

J.R.

Question:
How can I define an extra HP in ships. ini for a mountable “Token”
without making it a HP for Thrusters, Shields, Armor, Scanners,
Power supplies,.Tractors or Weapons since I allready use all these types of HP
for equipment and don´t want to enable players to mount
2 Power supplies for example…
Think you folks know what i mean… hope so

Edit:
I did these Tokens as commodities to work as access_code to dock via FLHook.
The downside is: you loose em when you die. thats why i ask you for
a solution to this Problem.

J.R.

Hmmm… seems like there is nobody with an idea to this…

Gisteron

define them as hardpoints for eg powerless thrusters or cargo pods.

J.R.

as cargopods would be nice…
where do they show up for the player and will they still
be there after you died?

And… may I ask you for an example how to do this?

Or… is it possible to exclude some commodities from death
penalty in MP ? Maybe with something like FLHOOK ?
or…is it just a brainfart
I know… I am kind of ridiculous compared to other modders…

J.R.

Problem solved.
Made them as “mountable” shieldbats and it works fine.
Think I´ll be back soon with more to ask you folks…
THX anyway to everyone here for the help so far.

CU

J.R.

Hello again.
After doing some kind of “BETA-TESTING” on my Server I got pretty
satisfied with my MOD so far…
BUT…(as you already asumed) there are a couple of things
I want to change. and any help would be welcome… VERY WELCOME !!!

First:

Does anybody know how to reveal the whole vanilla Map for new MPs
in general at startup ? (without editing their chars with a Server Editor
like IONCROSS or something equal)

Gisteron

if i got you right you want to edit what the character is like on beginning of MP. therefore you can use the .\data\characters\newcharacter.ini file and the .\exe\mpnewcharacter.fl files.

J.R.

Yes… right so far…
Want to give all ew players the Maps Infos and Locations of the vanilla systems at startup. do i have to add every single Base and and and… ???

Gisteron

well you can edit the .\data\universe\universe.ini for each system and base to always do show up on the navmap. that’s less characters to type but still some little work to do.