Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Sprinfield VA
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it seems for some reason no matter what i change in the tables i cant get a ship to fire a beam over 4k or 6k whatever the longest beams range is. Could this be something with the ai? How could i fix this? I also want to do this with other projectiles. (to create the illusion of planetary defense)

Also i need to figure out how to make a deep purple beam a completely white besm and a turqouise beam. I change the color values, the RGB values, and all i got was a purple, white or turqouise reflection of the ship but the beam was still the original color. Also how could i do this with other colors in the future.

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The range issue I don;t know aout, but for the beam colours you need to change the colours of the .pcx image files that the beams use. You can extract the appropriate ones (the names are in ships.tbl) with vp view from sparky.vp, in the effects folder. Then just save them as differently named files in data\effects and change the names of the files the beams use in your tabe.

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thats great but my main problems are beams

anybody else know how?

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Easy enough:

Go to the beam sections and change beam-green (or whatever) to:

beam-purple (for purple)
beam-white (White)
beam-blue (turqouise)

beam-purple and -blue have a second type: beam-purple/blue2 - beam-white has 2 and 3. Adjust RGB to match you new colours in all sections.

As for long range beams, use the "fire beam" sexp.

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that might make it hard for the sniper cannon (AAF beam with a 30km distance)

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quote:

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Originally posted by Krackers87
that might make it hard for the sniper cannon (AAF beam with a 30km distance)

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$Name:				S-AAA-Weak

$Model File:			none

@Laser Bitmap:			laserglow01

@Laser Color:			250, 30, 30

@Laser Length:			0.0

@Laser Head Radius:		0.60

@Laser Tail Radius:		0.60

$Mass:				100.0

$Velocity:				1000.0

$Fire Wait:				5.0

$Damage:				5

$Armor Factor:			1.3

$Shield Factor:			3.0

$Subsystem Factor:		1.0

$Lifetime:				60.0

$Energy Consumed:			0.30

$Cargo Size:			0.0

$Homing:				NO

$LaunchSnd:				124

$ImpactSnd:				88

+Weapon Range:			1500

$Flags:				("Big Ship" "beam" )

$Icon:				icongun05

$Anim:				LoadGun07

$Impact Explosion:		ExpMissileHit1

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	+Type:			3

	+Life:			3

	+Warmup:			500

	+Warmdown:			1000

	+Radius:		  	10.0

	+PCount:			15

	+PRadius:			1.2

	+PAngle:			65.0

	+PAni:			particleexp01

	+Miss Factor:		6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 1.5

	+BeamSound:			121

	+WarmupSound:		122

	+WarmdownSound:		123

	+Muzzleglow:		thrusterglow01

	+Shots:			3

	+ShrinkFactor:		0.0

	+ShrinkPct:			0.0

$Section:

	+Width:			1.0

	+Texture:			beam-red

	+RGBA Inner:		255 255 255 255

	+RGBA Outer:		150 150 150 10

	+Flicker:			0.1

	+Zadd:			2.0

$Section:

	+Width:			3.0

	+Texture:			beam-red2

	+RGBA Inner:		160 160 0 255

	+RGBA Outer:		60 60 0 10	

	+Flicker:			0.1

	+Zadd:			1.0

$Section:

	+Width:			4.5

	+Texture:			beam-white

	+RGBA Inner:		255 0 0 255

	+RGBA Outer:		60 0 0 10	

	+Flicker:			0.5

	+Zadd:			0.0

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Well I started to think a bit about it and I`ll try on my own with increasing the beam range. Effectivness of fire would be probably low, especially if the target is small.
Well I have just a bit of time and some thing that should be finished off with the FRED 2 so I`ll see.

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Actually, distance has nothing to do with accuracy for beams. Only the +Miss Factor bit affects that.

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i got a 90km beam to auto target at 32km

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Sathanas beam?

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....no...

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