Shipmaking Q&A

vulstar · Post by **vulstar** » Mon May 25, 2009 9:15 pm

anyone nows how to make the computer use the broadside function better?

Since i put ai type = broadside
(and saved it even under a new name)

and when the computer uses my ship it stil aim the front of the ship to the enemy. and just gets slaughterd since all weapons are aimed to the side of the ship.

MelvinVm · Post by **MelvinVm** » Mon May 25, 2009 10:06 pm

You do have weapons for broadside purpose, as well as an AI range?

vulstar · Post by **vulstar** » Mon May 25, 2009 10:39 pm

[img=http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6194/thebroblamzzz.jpg]

ai range 600 weapon range 1250

Btw when i have control of the ship and click on the enemy's core it works fine
(and ai control was activated)

duhno what you mean with broadside weapons.

madisj · Post by **madisj** » Mon May 25, 2009 11:37 pm

How do I make stuff glow?

Like you see in some ships, the colour goes smoothly not in sections.

maarten · Post by **maarten** » Mon May 25, 2009 11:43 pm

madisj wrote:How do I make stuff glow?

Like you see in some ships, the colour goes smoothly not in sections.

Press F1

then wait 24 hours and post your findings here.

apache1990 · Post by **apache1990** » Mon May 25, 2009 11:48 pm

There's a smooth circle sprite in the Fraxy pack that is used for several glow effects. (in additive blending mode)

Resize as necessary.

Water_and_Wind · Post by **Water_and_Wind** » Mon May 25, 2009 11:50 pm

vulstar wrote:[img=http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6194/thebroblamzzz.jpg]

ai range 600 weapon range 1250

Btw when i have control of the ship and click on the enemy's core it works fine
(and ai control was activated)

duhno what you mean with broadside weapons.

Try increasing the AI range to 1000 or so to make it turn its broadside earlier, and/or increase the maxrange setting in the game itself to make it detect enemies earlier and so turn its broadside earlier as well.

vulstar · Post by **vulstar** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:23 am

well i tryed some different distance settings and stuff,

and spawned 4 vs 4 ships and only 1 or 2 ships where going broadside afther some time

Wicky_42 · Post by **Wicky_42** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:30 am

Vulstar, just increase the 'max range' (I think that's what it is) in the sandbox options - that goes a long way to help

throw it to over 9,000 and you shouldn't have any problems...

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:51 am

apache1990 wrote:There's a smooth circle sprite in the Fraxy pack that is used for several glow effects. (in additive blending mode)

Resize as necessary.

There's also flares as well.

Wicky_42 wrote:Vulstar, just increase the 'max range' (I think that's what it is) in the sandbox options - that goes a long way to help throw it to over 9,000 and you shouldn't have any problems...

Wicky_42 wrote:throw it to over 9,000 and you shouldn't have any problems...

Wicky_42 wrote:throw it to over 9,000

Wicky_42 wrote:over 9,000

WHAT, NINE THOUSAND!?

Wicky_42 · Post by **Wicky_42** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:24 am

Heh, trust you to catch that and blow it all out of proportion Danny, lol

Swamp Fox · Post by **Swamp Fox** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:55 am

Considering the default sandbox is only 2048*2048, I can see why Danny would harp on that. Of course, knowing Danny, that's probably not his actual reason, but it's a valid point regardless.

Exethalion · Post by **Exethalion** » Tue May 26, 2009 3:11 am

It's a long-existing problem. Broadside AI will likely never work if you spawn your ship close to the target ship. But if you bring your ship from outside the max AI range into it, then at that point it should make the broadside turn and move towards the target until it reaches the min AI range.

Ixranin · Post by **Ixranin** » Fri May 29, 2009 4:57 am

Hmm... I'm trying to build a weapon system similar to this: http://www.wyrdysm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... nked+range

So I have a driver weapon that triggers AoE weapons to fire (via "Force Fire"), with the AoE weapons having a range of 10.

When it fires ingame though, it pops an error about variables. If I press "Ignore", the bullet will fly off at an apparently unlimited range, and the guns will stop firing.

ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: User Defined 1
for object TacNukeCannon:

Error in code at line 41:

bullet.alarm[0] = max(point_distance(x,y,l_target.x,l_target.y)/l_bulletspeed,l_special4+1) -

at position 56: Unknown variable x

I tried the same thing with weapon links, and while the guns fire fine, they all end up inheriting the range of the driver weapon.

Squishy · Post by **Squishy** » Fri May 29, 2009 5:41 am

AoE weapons with a fuse setting (plasma, tacnuke and so forth) will cause error when triggered to Force Fire.

When linked, these weapons will shoot projectiles that will reach the master weapon's target even if it exceeds its firing range.

Weapons with fuse settings absolutely require a coordinate target, possibly because their fuse setting works using that. There is no way to have them dumbfire based solely on direction.