Re: Effects showroom!

Sorry to get offtopic but there is a way to make a torp do both hull and shield damage at the same time. The damage for a normal torp is just in the explosion, but if you put a damage entry on the munition and the explosion you will get the desired effect.

You might than want to set the hitpoints of your munition 2 a value higher than the explosion damage.

I totally cheated for that video. That single missile you see strapped under the Defender is a single torpedo launcher with two HPFires. This unfortunately breaks the launch sound, so that was post processed in later. The two missiles launched both behave precisely the same way, giving the illusion of only one missile. In the end for my mod I decided to simply give all applicable fighters two torpedo launchers.

I have done this 2 years ago with missiles. Doesn’t brake sound and when you fire you see actually 2 missiles flying away (not always but in 95% cases). That’s not only thing I made launchers up to 6 missiles just for fun but that many lags MP heavy, especialy if you mount more launchers on ship but you can only imagine how does it look like with four 6 missile launchers. Also did this with turret and got flak effect but never tested it in fight. If u r interested I have it archived somewhere

@Lancer:

Engine FX example

The FX below will give you a new engine trail (real long) and the classic Star Trek blue flash when entering cruise. Also contains additional comments on what each section is for and how some of the commands work.

Click here to download the SSM Warp FX files

I tried this one but didn’t work. Followed instructions step by step but nothing. I did put on right engine I know because there isn’t any fx

Any thoughts?

Thx

@w0dk4:

thx for the explanation

Btw. there is a workaround for the missing sound effect on multi-hpfire-weapons - just add your sound effect to the const_effect of the fired missile.

I found out about this afterward. However I think my final solution of just separating the launchers and making them look like real torpedoes physically attached to the ship is way cooler.

Proton Torpedo

Concussion Missile

Heavy Rockets

Mag-Pulse

Ion-Pulse

Quick video of the concussions missiles in aciton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QPsNEZ6qZY

Looks nice Sushi, as always. But no sound on the video.

it needs to be more laser “PEWPEW” and a little more “BOOMBOOM” from the missiles ;D

lol. ya, I didn’t record the sounds effects as I’m making another development video. Trust me there’s a lot of Pew Pew and BOOM BOOM…lol.

Well, I thought I may as well post the video of my latest foray into ALE effects.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-IuP5a11evw

The missile effect before the explosion is my plasma torpedo effect, while the actual explosion is the one I’m showing off. Me being lazy, or resourceful, whichever way you look at it, just added the const effect and the explosion effect to the Javelin missile for testing purposes.

The effect itself is the explosion of a nuclear weapon, and I’ve used a custom texture for the main explosion as well.

Comments as always please peoples.

Back in business!

I will be posting a massive effects pack in a separate thread soon. I am working on the documentation for it right now. About halfway done. In the meantime, enjoy. While there really arent any new effects in this, it is an implementation of missiles that I haven’t seen many mods try.

@Why485:

As I was writing that post, I was thinking that Itano Circus would be getting its first flyable capital ship in the form of a Liberty Cruiser with six missile tubes, each vertically launching a reaction missile.

Itano Circus Vertical Launch Missiles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcoKbKeCeyE≈=%2526fmt%3D18

I have no intentions of actually implementing flyable capital ships, let alone with a weapon system this crazy overpowered. This was just a modding exercise. A fun one at that.

Ignore the Fraps framerate of 0. That shows up because I took these pictures from paused videos.

thats amazing

only one word WOW ;D Good job Why

ohhh Trident type sub missiles…

Nice one.

How the…… What the… OMG… ;D ;D

That’s fantastic!

can this be done with HP or is it code based?? I have to know… lol I already see an “aplication” for it… ooohhhhhh
true cluster missiles… for gundam strike fighters…

Ive said it b4 and i’ll say it agian… You ROCK!!

It’s easy to implement. Place some top-mounted hardpoints (probably just fixed, rather than revolute mounts), and then alter the scripting so that the missiles have a slow turn rate, a large lifetime, and one hell of a warhead! No doubt delving into some .ale to obtain better effects is desired though… that’s not so easy

I would not recommend adding a delay, as that delay value in my experience is utterly useless. In multiplayer it creates very strange behavior, and in singleplayer it does not seem to do anything. Anyway the weapon itself is very simple. Its basically a forward gun that shoots a missile upwards. I put 6 hardpoints on the Liberty Cruiser that face upwards, put a “force_gun_ori = true” on it so it shoots only straight, and thats really it. Sauce for missiles is here.

[Motor]
nickname = torpedo03_mark01_motor
lifetime = 20
accel = 30
delay = 0

[Explosion]
nickname = torpedo03_mark01_explosion
;effect = li_torpedo01_impact
effect = li_torpedo01_impact
lifetime = 0.000000, 0.000000
process = disappear
strength = 100
radius = 350
hull_damage = 48000
energy_damage = 0
impulse = 0
debris_impulse = 0
debris_type = debris_torpedo, 1.000000
innards_debris_start_time = 0.000000
innards_debris_num = 15
innards_debris_radius = 450
innards_debris_object = simple_torpedo_debris01

[Munition]
nickname = torpedo03_mark01_ammo
explosion_arch = torpedo03_mark01_explosion
loot_appearance = ammo_crate
units_per_container = 1
hp_type = hp_torpedo
requires_ammo = false
hit_pts = 400000
detonation_dist = 10
lifetime = 20
Motor = torpedo03_mark01_motor
force_gun_ori = true
const_effect = li_torpedo01_drive
HP_trail_parent = HPExhaust
seeker = LOCK
time_to_lock = 0
seeker_range = 15000
seeker_fov_deg = 180
max_angular_velocity = 1.75
DA_archetype = equipment\models\torpedoes\ge_torpedo.3db
material_library = equipment\models\ge_equip.mat
ids_name = 458784
ids_info = 458785
mass = 1
volume = 0.000000
cruise_disruptor = true

[Gun]
nickname = torpedo03_mark01
ids_name = 458782
ids_info = 458783
DA_archetype = Equipment\models\weapons\no_fighter_gun.cmp
material_library = ships\nomad\nomad_fx.txm
HP_child = HPConnect
hit_pts = 1405000000
explosion_resistance = 100.000000
debris_type = debris_normal
parent_impulse = 20
child_impulse = 80
volume = 0.000000
mass = 10
damage_per_fire = 0
power_usage = 0
refire_delay = 5
muzzle_velocity = 5
toughness = 12.100000
projectile_archetype = torpedo03_mark01_ammo
dry_fire_sound = fire_dry
separation_explosion = sever_debris
auto_turret = true
turn_rate = 0
lootable = true
LODranges = 0, 500

i love u ;D jk

thx for the codes

;D ;D Thanks WHY ;D ;D

Its off to the Lab for me then…. Hi HO!!!

had a feeling it was “a little from collum A , and a little from collum B” just wanted to be shure

lol u keep this up… i’ll have to write a seperate readme called “WHY I LOVE WHY” loooool hehe

Cheers.