has another one of those amusing I feel bright moments

Yeah, try opening xml with notepad, works a lot better =p

And those shockwave missiles… Heh I want to make one now, but it’d feel like copying someone else’s work so unsure there.

The info inside is kinda helpful too for what I’m working on, and at first I was curious how Silverlight got the rocket pods to fire with right mouse. Helpful yes, it’s been bugging me trying to figure that part out.

That and I noticed that weapon type was listed as W_rocket instead of W_laser01. Yet I couldn’t find any other reference to it in the script. Something that references a different weapons related file? Or just a way for an editor to keep track of his guns?

But after a bit more study it seems like they’re really just a laser gun with missile graphics. As there’s no explosion tab attached with them, and no seeker = DUMB. Which I seem to need to get the explosion to behave right, but which still kills the ability to right mouse fire the gun.

Though on a side note i did figure out one workaround by simply keymapping fire weapon 7 to E instead of it’s usual use. Hold it down and weapon will chain fire. But this seems like a bit of a band aid approach, not exactly fond of it.

One other problem has cropped up that’s I’m fairly sure is also tied to adding in Seeker = The gun seems to fire any normal in game proj file just fine. But if I make it a custom beam effect I get no graphic at all. Thought my initial one had a typo or something was added in improperly so afterwards I tried using a custom effect from another gun which I’ve seen so I know it works. Still no graphic that way either.

Any ideas what could be causing that?

Of course. Wouldn’t do much good if I didn’t restart and let windows re-read the registry

if it’s only about weap and ship specs, you would need an SDK (pack with decrypted versions) of the ini files (yes its far better than the bini decoder) and a simple text editor such as notepad. tutorials on conventional coding thingies you can find in their greatest amount over at the starport archive in the freelancer community network. the structure of ini files is quite simple and fast to understand, the single parameters however are to learn like vocabulary of a foreign language except for they sound nearly the same what they mean. also, take a look on the starport wiki modding database. it is quite incomplete yet but you will find explanations for several files more technical and presize than several tutorials would give.

and welcome to The Starport 😉