Lady Rose
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Re: drifting vessels in FRED2??
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Originally posted by Alpha9
I have recently got into FRED2 in a big way for simply writing my own missions (will share when they are good enough!) and have a number of questions. I have researched these quite a big (google.com!) but feel free to reference urls in your answer if it is quicker.
(1) Is it possable to make a ship drift at all? I would like to have a cap ship loose power and start to 'fall' downway with some rotaional momentum. I 'bet' the answer to this is no, but worth a shot.
(2) Is it possable to use the 'yellow' jump point animation with the normal TBP 2 mod + Freespace 2 for ships that are leaving? Can I configure this on a mission per mission basis in Fred2?
(3) Is there a beam referrence somewhat like http://home.att.net/~clay.h/fs2/beamfaq.htm for TBP 2? I would like details on the strenght, range, firing frequency of these weapons so I can write better missions. Failing something that is published, can you point me to the correct way to read the 'tables' (???) in the mod itself.
(4) There was something else. I think. Oh yes. Cap ship battles are quite good to watch right now (beams, plasma look GREAT!) but are there any 'interceptor' style weapons I can put on turrets of cap ships to shoot down missles and other plasma projectiles?
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(1) Not at the moment, maybe in future with SCP.
(2) That can be done with SEXPs, for instance:
event name
-is-event-true-delay
--hulabaloo
--0
-add-goal
--shippy
---ai-warp
----80
-special-warpout-name
--shippy
--shippy
(3) Not at the moment as I know, but reading tables is easy. Find the weapon and find $Damage, +Weapon Range and $Fire Wait (and why not $Lifetime too). They should speak for themselves (Fire Wait is how long it elapses before second round and Lifetime is how long it actualy fires it).
(4) There is no special weapon for such, but all turrets are capable to shoot down missiles, as for Plasma no.
I hope these answer to your questions.
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