Lavarider Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 (edited) Hey all! As many of you know, I'm making a new race for FOC!! Well, guess what? They're just about done! ;D I only have one snag I'm trying to overcome. My race (according to a book I was writing about them before I started creating them in FOC) uses an orbital MAC gun that uses the force of the rotating planet...Blah..blah. Anyway, i wanted to know if any of you knew a good way to make a space-based structure that would function as my superweapon. The best way to explain it would be a detached underworld plasma cannon or a hypervelocity gun floating in space...any ideas? I have the model operational, and when I build the cannon, it warps in fine, but when i develop the upgrade, it says "ion cannon available" but when I order a shot,nothing happens. Edited April 26, 2008 by Lavarider Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droid803 Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Rather than messing with the superweapon icon, I guess you can just make firing it an ability (like on the magenpulse cannon). That should work. I've never gotten the superweapon button to work myself (hence why the Mando's "space superweapon" is a turret on their space station...If I get a nuke ship model...I might change that) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/droid803sig.jpg"That was fun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 26, 2008 Author Share Posted April 26, 2008 Yeah, Im trying to make it have a big red button to shoot, like the eclipse...do you know how to do something like that? Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droid803 Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 try using the eclipse ability? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/droid803sig.jpg"That was fun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 Actually, Believe it or not, the eclipse ability grants a little icon identical to the one for the proton beam...The big, red, Im gonna push it and you're not gonna like it button is nonexistent... Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droid803 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 STrange, must be defined somewhere as to which specific abilities show up in the Big Red Button, however, I do not know what file it is in. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/droid803sig.jpg"That was fun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 Yeah, Right about now Im browsing the coding for the orbital bombardment... I hope to find a clue there. Ive also made a small breakthrough in the superweapon button, actually....I think that I got it to work, but I believe that my problem may now lie in a n issue with firing my SW, 'cause it wont shoot even if I manually target it.... Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Felipe Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Yeah, Right about now Im browsing the coding for the orbital bombardment... I hope to find a clue there. Ive also made a small breakthrough in the superweapon button, actually....I think that I got it to work, but I believe that my problem may now lie in a n issue with firing my SW, 'cause it wont shoot even if I manually target it.... Try looking at the Death Star II code as well.If you gave the superweapon code like that of the DSII, then it could hyperspace in, and use the button. Of course, to be fair, you might want to give it a weakness like DSII's Rogue Squadron or figure out how to make it targetable-otherwise, if they get it, they can never lose. http://miniprofile.xfire.com/bg/sf/type/0/captainartenon.pnghttp://z4.invisionfree.com/The_Sith_Lords_EaW/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=5554600Alternate Sitehttp://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a245/loverdog/pffuserbar1.jpghttp://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6296/sweawuban0cg.pngPetition for Obsidian and Bioware to work on Knights of the Old Republic III together! 3926 Total Signatures and counting!SW Fanon Wiki entry - Captain Artenon"A fake news show on fox should have real news!" -Louis Black, The Daily Show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 Well, Im hoping to modify the code. I can change the LUA files if I must. Its an orbital cannon called the TRAMS cannon...It basically a big, fat, MAC gun with three barrels. It is currently programmed to fire all three shots in sequence (the shots are the plasma cannon from Consortium starbase) and Im trying to get it to work. I dont want an op'd superweapon like that at all-I am trying to balance my race. Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 Sigh...Its not working. Can anybody tell me why It won't fire even when treated as a normal turret? Ill post my ALO and XML to help. Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droid803 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Taking a look now. I have some ideas though, just checking.got your problem right here. Its the model. the fire bone should be MuzzleA_00 not MuzzleA_01, unless you use a hardpoint. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/droid803sig.jpg"That was fun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 Does that actually make a difference if the Bone in the model is actually MuzzleA_01? Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 (edited) I guess it does... Well, It fires now, but does anyone have an idea on why it fires immediately upon coming out of hyperspace? I have it restricted with False False Yes 140 But it fires anyway, which is irritating, as it takes a while to be able to shoot again. Edit: Did some more tests...It fires on its own whether I want it to or not... Edited April 28, 2008 by Lavarider Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droid803 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 FalseFalse Should be all you need. The other two are linked to something else.However, you should use the magnepulse code. You can, at the very least, get a special cursor. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/droid803sig.jpg"That was fun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 (edited) Which Magnapulse code should I use? Every bit I try gives me an error...One other thing. I did some more research on my Cannon and it acts oddly. It fires at random enemies once charged (even though I say FALSE on opp. targeting) and when I am targeting something, when the cannon isnt selected, say, Im telling my Daemon Class assault cruiser "Redemption" to kill the star destroyer's Shield generator, the TRAMS cannon opens fire on said SD Edited April 29, 2008 by Lavarider Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Hey..I got it to work!!!! ;D My problem was twofold. For all you beginning modders who may have had the same problem...To get your unit to obey the rules of an ability, don't forget ABILITY_COUNTDOWN in SpaceBehavior. Second, give it 2 2 Instead of the no fire when Idle crap (if it is a structure) and it will obey its ability !! Yay!! Now I have a triple firing mac gun! WOOT! Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droid803 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Good to hear you got it to work. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/droid803sig.jpg"That was fun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 (edited) Yeah, although I regret that I couldn't get the big red button to function...but oh well Edit: Great...For some reason it wont fire three shots anymore...only one...Ideas? Edited April 29, 2008 by Lavarider Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droid803 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 The ability theoretically should allow more than one shot. However, worse comes to worse, a particle always works you can make it so that a single shot looks like three separate "shots" http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/droid803sig.jpg"That was fun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Do you know what I should tell the ability to get it to understand? Cause the 31.0isnt working... Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droid803 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 That's a bad sign. What did you change that made it not fire three shots? Did it ever fire three using the ability? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/droid803sig.jpg"That was fun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Actually, I dont think it ever fired three. I had a few Scimitar class assault ships deployed at the time, and they have central MAC guns as a special weapon...I think I mistook their shots for the TRAMS' guns....I think its always been one shot only. I actually copied and remade the entire magnapulse cannon's XML to suit my gun, so its just a space based magna, if that helps at all. Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidious_Invader Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 I noticed a while back that the Super-weapons are referenced in the factions.xml.... Death_Star Maybe this somehow enables the button. http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa197/knivesdamaster/tags/sith_omguserbar_member.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarider Posted May 31, 2008 Author Share Posted May 31, 2008 That's not the In game superweapon. That the faction's MegaWeapon, that is there game ender thing...only the empire has one. Bow to me, as a slave does before his master, or a peasant before his king. For, you shall soon be as such to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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