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I've been playing around with beams lately, but theres one TBL entry I don't understand:

"Zadd"

What does it do? I'd experiment to find out, but my computer blew itself up and is currently halfway across the country being repaired.

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I've been playing around with beams lately, but theres one TBL entry I don't understand:

"Zadd"

What does it do? I'd experiment to find out, but my computer blew itself up and is currently halfway across the country being repaired.

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Ooh, I asked about this a while ago on HLP. Let me see if I can find it...

Found it. "It's exactly what it sounds like-- "Z Add". It adds a depth displacement to layers of the beam to help FS2 knows which layers are supposed to be rendered in front of each other."

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Ooh, I asked about this a while ago on HLP. Let me see if I can find it...

Found it. "It's exactly what it sounds like-- "Z Add". It adds a depth displacement to layers of the beam to help FS2 knows which layers are supposed to be rendered in front of each other."

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I think he would like that in English

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Well...I do, anyways.

*isn't too technical with stuff like that*

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Well...I do, anyways.

*isn't too technical with stuff like that*

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Actually, I thought he explained it just fine. Basically what I think GalacticEmperor was saying is the Zadd specifies the distance that the section appears in front of the previous one.

Example: If I understand correctly it works like this: Section 2 has a Zadd value of 1. This means it will appear 1 meter further forward than the point that section 1 appears.

A slightly different question now. Does anyone know where I can download the complete GTB Surt package (with railgun). So far, I've never found a .pof for the surt, and I might have lost all my mods.

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Actually, I thought he explained it just fine. Basically what I think GalacticEmperor was saying is the Zadd specifies the distance that the section appears in front of the previous one.

Example: If I understand correctly it works like this: Section 2 has a Zadd value of 1. This means it will appear 1 meter further forward than the point that section 1 appears.

A slightly different question now. Does anyone know where I can download the complete GTB Surt package (with railgun). So far, I've never found a .pof for the surt, and I might have lost all my mods.

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Gives the beams a fake roundness, basically. 3-D effect.

'Z' is the dimension in/out of the screen, if that helps.

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Gives the beams a fake roundness, basically. 3-D effect.

'Z' is the dimension in/out of the screen, if that helps.

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SSSooooo...in english it means that if you have Beam1.pcx through Beam3.pcx and Beam1.pcx has a size of 40 and Beam3.pcx has a size of 15 you definately want the Beam3.pcx to be further forward so Beam3.pcx should have a Zadd of something higher than Beam1.pcx.

Ok...so that wasn't so clear.

Beam1.pcx
Width: 40
Zadd: 1

Beam2.pcx
Width: 25
Zadd: 2

Beam3.pcx
Width: 15
Zadd: 3

So Beam 3 will appear ontop of 2 and 1. This is just a layering effect...like Shrike said, to give it an element of being 3D.

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SSSooooo...in english it means that if you have Beam1.pcx through Beam3.pcx and Beam1.pcx has a size of 40 and Beam3.pcx has a size of 15 you definately want the Beam3.pcx to be further forward so Beam3.pcx should have a Zadd of something higher than Beam1.pcx.

Ok...so that wasn't so clear.

Beam1.pcx
Width: 40
Zadd: 1

Beam2.pcx
Width: 25
Zadd: 2

Beam3.pcx
Width: 15
Zadd: 3

So Beam 3 will appear ontop of 2 and 1. This is just a layering effect...like Shrike said, to give it an element of being 3D.

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yes but Zadd is suposed to only go from 0.0 to 1.0, though nothing bad would happen, but if you when to 8 or so you'd probly start getting errors

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yes but Zadd is suposed to only go from 0.0 to 1.0, though nothing bad would happen, but if you when to 8 or so you'd probly start getting errors

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Really? 0.0 to 1.0? I thought a whole bunch of V tables had values well over that.....I must check that.

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Really? 0.0 to 1.0? I thought a whole bunch of V tables had values well over that.....I must check that.

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Originally posted by Deathstorm
Actually, I thought he explained it just fine. Basically what I think GalacticEmperor was saying is the Zadd specifies the distance that the section appears in front of the previous one.

Example: If I understand correctly it works like this: Section 2 has a Zadd value of 1. This means it will appear 1 meter further forward than the point that section 1 appears.

A slightly different question now. Does anyone know where I can download the complete GTB Surt package (with railgun). So far, I've never found a .pof for the surt, and I might have lost all my mods.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Deathstorm
Actually, I thought he explained it just fine. Basically what I think GalacticEmperor was saying is the Zadd specifies the distance that the section appears in front of the previous one.

Example: If I understand correctly it works like this: Section 2 has a Zadd value of 1. This means it will appear 1 meter further forward than the point that section 1 appears.

A slightly different question now. Does anyone know where I can download the complete GTB Surt package (with railgun). So far, I've never found a .pof for the surt, and I might have lost all my mods.

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Is that the compete file or just the Surt itself?

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