Changing energy output on weapons.

StarTrader

Heheh….

I think you just confused the heck out of orubun.

LancerSolurus

Dont forget this tool for setting up your weapons….

http://digitalbrilliance.com/Downloader/index.php?action=downloads&id=32

orubun

That`s 110% StarTrader. As a noob im sitting here and get a big ? over my head… Will test and se what happen. Maybe i will need to reinstall and maybe not, well se what happends. Thx for all the help so far.

Zyos

Thanks guys, all useful information I’m re-learning here

Hey LS, long time no see

LancerSolurus

Howdy, Im still lurking around here

StarTrader

Orubun - this may help, it’s a spreadsheet file listing all of the weapons (but not mines) in plain Freelancer.

They are sorted on 3 spreadsheets by game name, english name and by ids_name (infocard number).

It’s in Excel format when you unzip it. OpenOffice.Org and Libre Office and others can open it.

Ask when you need more info or help.

orubun

Did everything again, and this time i used admin ship to harvest some items and implemented thoes on my ship and got this sweet ride, and as some great men use to say: with great powers come great responsebilitys. So i used Freelancer simple save editor and got this:

ship_archetype = 2805431751

equip = 2225053383, , 1
equip = 2227458894, , 1
cargo = 2520964673, 1, , , 0
cargo = 3183993227, 1, , , 0
equip = 2486738757, HpTorpedo01, 1
equip = 2540429962, HpTorpedo02, 1
equip = 2540429962, HpPilot, 1
equip = 2540429962, HpCM01, 1
equip = 2540429962, HpMine01, 1
equip = 2540429962, HpShield01, 1
equip = 2794766404, HpThruster01, 1
equip = 2281020552, HpWeapon01, 1
equip = 2281020552, HpWeapon06, 1
equip = 2281020552, HpWeapon05, 1
equip = 2281020552, HpWeapon04, 1
equip = 2281020552, HpWeapon03, 1
equip = 2281020552, HpWeapon02, 1
equip = 2371124352, HpTurret01, 1
equip = 2679995081, , 1
equip = 2894877573, , 1

Try it out for a spinn and feel the wind in your hair…

Thx for all the help i got and ceep doing what you are best on… All thumbs up to you all…

Zyos

@LS

I woulda thought you’d have your engine done by now, you started that before I left and that was nearly 4 years back, hows it going now?

LancerSolurus

I rebuilt it from scratch a little over a year ago after I ran into some major limitations using the fixed function pipeline of DirectX. I switched over to shaders only and now I have way more graphics features than I could ever of had the previous way.

BTW the tool I posted is so you can adjust your weps properly. FL uses a per second fire rate and energy usage, that tool will allow get the values needed to simply plug in your wep scripts.

robocop

I seem to recall that the speed of the projectile had something to do with energy damage on guns. (I know it does with missiles but I seem to recall that it works with guns as well).

Someone once explained to me that the reason the Kraken2 guns are more powerful than you would expect is because they’re the fastest projectile out there in their class. Same principle as the beam weapon mod.

If this is true, does anyone have the formula that factors projectile speed into the equation?

I know the down and dirty formula is hull_damage * refire rate gives you the damage/second.

Can anyone confirm and clarify?

Thx.

Skotty

muzzle_velocity = constant speed

thats all for guns.

If you have a missile/torpedo, means a motor, always calculate
acceleration * lifetime of motor + muzzle_velocity = endspeed

Of course everytime + ship speed while you are firing.

Southpaw

Every time I open one of the INIs, I get character salad. Lots of squares, symbols, and punctuation. The bottom of the file is written in plain enough English with discernable characters, but I cant read the stuff above it. Any idea what’s going on?

adoxa

The release files are stored as binary, you need to convert them to text. Try Tini (command line program) for one-off conversions, or JFLP for all of them (plus lots more).