Re: Effects showroom!

As you noticed, the orientation of a thruster has nothing to do with the direction in which the thrust is actually applied. To create my reverse thruster, all I did was apply a negative value to the thrust parameter of the reverse thruster. Doing so causes some minor issues which adoxa pointed out how to fix, but functionally it works as intended.

There was however some bug mentioned earlier related to engine kill. I never tested it myself but it is worth looking into if you plan on seriously implementing this.

OK, so instead of max_force = 72000, max_force should equal -72000?

How much force do I need to move the ship?
The stock thrusters are moving my dread at only 1 m/s.
Top engine speed of my dread is 29. Let’s say I want reverse thrust to be about -5 to -10. Is there a relation to the ships mass involved?

Yes, thrust should be negative.

How much thrust you need to move your ship is related to how much total linear drag the ship has. The total linear drag is addition of the ships own linear drag and the linear drag of the engine that the ship uses. To determine a maximum speed added by a thruster, use this formula:

SpeedThrusterProvides = Thrust/TotalLinearDrag

At least I’m pretty sure that was the formula.

kk, so, the linear drag of the ship is 1 with a mass of 100,000
the linear drag of the engine is 100,000

So, thrust boost = -10 would be
-10 = x/100,001? with x being the max_force?

-10 = x/100001
-10*100001 = x = -1000010

That look right?

I don’t know, try it. I’m a bit rusty with my Freelancer math. Plug in the values and see what happens. Mass has nothing to do with top speed either. It affects how long it takes to reach max speed, and a higher value adds a general slippiness, but it has no effect on top speed.

Well, my ship now does do reverse thrust, but at speed -19. I’ll need to tweak the values a bit I guess.
Perhaps the formula should be
for:
max_force = x
desired_thrust_speed = dts
linear_drag_ship = lds
linear_grag_engine = lde

x= dts*((lds+lde)/2)

dts = x/(lds+lde)

Yes, you’re correct. I had forgotten I had put two thrusters on the ship, effectively doubling the thrust speed. Sorry if I confused anyone.

Umm… I’m not sure why you are using thrusters in reverse, robo?

Every engine is capable of reverse thrust without thrusters. You can set it for each engine in engine_equip.ini

e.g. reverse_fraction = 0.3 means the engine can make the ship go 30% of its forward speed in reverse.

No? :-?

Well yeah… But now we can make it something someone has to buy!!! (trying to fleece my players out of every credit I can)

Ah, right! Great idea!

The live sun
ALE for sun Is based on giant anomaly

Giant Anomaly’s

step1

step 2

step 3

editing file Li01.ini
and paste

[Object]
nickname = Bw01_baxter_hazard_1
pos = 0, 0, 0
archetype = baxter_hazard
visit = 128

[zone]
nickname = Zone_Bw01_Baxter_hazard
pos = -8, 0, 1
shape = SPHERE
size = 300
damage = 200
visit = 128
sort = 99.500000

Please help

Unfortunately range effect of 7 km ,
It is necessary to fly up closely to the sun center
I don’t know as to increase visibility distance of ALE effects

basically, in the ale itself there is a LOD curve that affects the maximal view distance.
however, constants are set in the .\data\fx\effect_types.ini with the pbubble parameter. as there are already high-range effect types, you can just change your effect type in the effects.ini file. for instance EFT_EQUIP_ATTACHED_INSANELY_LARGE has a pbubble large enough for most star systems in FL (there is nothing stopping you from increasing it however).

Giant anomaly is giant XD…looks nice btw.

Kuze wrote:
Giant anomaly is giant XD…looks nice btw.

Yeah, thats INSANELY_LARGE!!!

Simply adjust the pbubble on the fx u want to see from a farther distance, posted it earlier but the site seemed to be under attack and it lost my post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H_qBxc6CfQ
Light on/Light off

Again maybe “accordeon”, but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4urdB7La3QE
Ammo with attached fx )

Neat effect. I like it!