Some questions for the weapon modders.

Quarks wrote:

StarTrader wrote:
1. Dispersion angle does not exist in weapon_equip.ini

Not in vanilla, but it is still usable in the gun entry.

dispersion_angle =

Really? How come? Who implemented it?

And more importantly - What does it do?

Quarks wrote:

StarTrader wrote:
To disable your guns from swivelling just make your ship hardpoints min and max angles = 0 but this will only have effect when they are mounted on those ships.

Change the hardpoint max and mins in the weapon model’s hpconnect.

Agreed. I forgot it is a Revolute Hardpoint.

Could perhaps also change it to a Fixed hardpoint.

So - there are many ways to skin this cat!

dispersion angle was an unused feature built into the FL engine. what it does is create an angle range in which a shot may deviate, creating a spray effect. So essentially, inaccuracy.

Another way to make or limit guns side to sid emotion is to make them a revalute(sp) hardpoint and edit the min and max for the angles, this is the way I use to limit all my guns.

Lonestar out . . .

<smirks>:D</smirks>

Dragonkat42 wrote:
What exactly is the equation that dictates refire delay? As this one doesn’t seem like a straight number given that .12 on a laser turns into a refire rate of 8.33 in game. Basically trying to set a missile with a 9 second refire delay is the goal.

Refire Rate = 1 / Refire Delay, and vice versa:

Ex: 1 / 8.33 = 0.12

Ex: 1 / 9 = 0.11

Refire delay is what it says it is - the delay between each shot, in seconds. Reciprocate it to get the shots per second. So 0.12 means fire a shot every 0.12 seconds, which equates to 1/0.12 = 8.33 shots per second. So if you want a nine-second delay, simply use 9 for refire_delay (but if you wanted 9 shots per second, use 1/9 = 0.11…).

Edit: Beat me to it.

lonestar wrote:
#3 Muzzle volecity = starting speed, Accel speed is how fast the missle incresses per second on the motor liftime. So
Motor lifttime = 3
Accel = 100
Muzzle volecity = 100
Would give the missle a top speed of 400, Reamber its motor liftime times the accel speed plus muzzle volecity.

You also have to add the ship’s speed.

lonestar wrote:
#5 A missle will not lose lock that I know of,

They do. At least as far as I have experimented.

lonestar wrote:
Another way to make or limit guns side to sid emotion is to make them a revalute(sp) hardpoint and edit the min and max for the angles

The question was how th limit the angle only for one gun, regardless of the hp’s angle settings it is mounted on.

hp_trail_parent (munition section) is the hardpoint on the missile’s cmp where the trail emition relates to. const_effect (munition section) is the effect the projectile has constantly (from shot to hit). if it is a simple gun projectile, it could have a trailing effect to, you would just to let out the hp_trail_parent and ofc the model reference.
the effect parameter is used often. if it is within an explosion section it is the explosion’s very effect (which does not deside on the strength of the explosion or debris or anything else but only refers to the nickname in an [effect] section).

Well I have heard that you can if coded right have contrails on your ammo based guns, But i never had it confumed nor tried it myself.

if you ever want: you can put just about any value to the const_effect parameter that is equal to a value of a nickname parameter within an [effect] section. what ever you know to be a trail effect can be your projectile’s constant effect. ofc some fx are too small, such as the artifact glow, some others are too large, such as e.g. the nomad hypergate, but technically all are possible. even engine trail effects. it’s just about whether you’d like your projectiles to emit such effects or not. you could also make it a sound fx or null fx and create an admin gun with irrecognizable projectiles. for not challenging you too much that soon i won’t go further into the possiblities of effect making by coding entirely new ALEs.

Want to try something even funner than what you have done?

Go in and edit the gun to have four hpfire hardpoints, then you would have a true shotgun. Just you will have to do one of the workarounds that are needed with the multi hpfire weapons.

lonestar out . . .

But beware that every HpFire will cause an energy drain…

Quarks wrote:
But beware that every HpFire will cause an energy drain…

Thanks for reminding me that, So your guns power usage for six hpfires that is hte max i belive, is engery_usage*6= totaly power used. So If you have 100 and usage your gun will use up 600 engery.

I had a six shot turret like gun, it was anti-fighter defence for a huge carrier ship I was making. But I was unable to get sound for it and i think gave up. Plus I was having issues with my models and stuff. The ship carryed one MASSAVE triple barrer turret, and then six of the other turrets three on the right side, and three on the left. But it just keep crashing out on me and I gave up on the weapons.

Oh on a sidenote, Has anyone been able to make a single gun barrel model that has a recoil animation when fired?

Plus I was having issues with my models and stuff. The ship carryed one MASSAVE triple barrer turret, and then six of the other turrets three on the right side, and three on the left. But it just keep crashing out on me and I gave up on the weapons.

The reason for this crashing is that freelancer can only support up to seven HpFire’s on a single model.

Oh on a sidenote, Has anyone been able to make a single gun barrel model that has a recoil animation when fired?

Some of the vanilla models have animations with them, i don’t know if freelancer will actually call on them even if they are referenced with the use_animation = in the gun block. but it is worth a try.

Ozed

lol No I had one three hp fire mega turret, and six of the shotgun six hpfire turrets on the model. not one Triple turret with 6 hpfire on each barral.

I would get one of the two models to show up, Two get the big mega turret to work I’d have to use normal freelancer weapons, Or not have the mega turret on to get the shoutgun turrets working.

It is kinda like the trouble I was having when I had two custom made ships at one ship dealer. the ship details and ship icon showed a differant ship, but the ship in the hanger of the ship dealer was the same model.