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Arcalane wrote:You have eyes. Use them;

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Look, man, I realize that you probably get a lot of stupid sounding questions, but I'm brand new here, and don't understand much about this stuff. I read that post, and it started right off talking about 'rotsections' and 'turretsections' and 'drivers' like they were common terms that everyone should know, and made no attempt to define them, except "turretsections are just like rotsections..."
Besides that, the guy who posted that even said that it wasn't the most well structured of informative of posts.

So I ask again, what are turretsections, rotsections, drivers, and triggers?

I don't mean to get off on the wrong foot or anything, but I really don't understand all this stuff, and I'm not really used to being yelled and having my first post locked simultaneously when I come to a new forum.

I apologise, it's just that things are a bit hectic and we've been getting a lot of questions.

I'll start with the basics;

A driver is a weapon which drives a turretsection, telling it where to 'look' or aim. Drivers also act as the target acquisition for linked weapons. To set a driver, you select the section you want as a turret and right click the driver weapon and hit "set driver".

A rotsection is a section which is set to, unsurprisingly, rotate. Anything that's attached to them will rotate too. Rotation settings are under the ED2 menu in Shipmaker. Rotsections can be used to make spinning helicopter blades, for example.

A turretsection is, as explained before, a section that is directed by a driver. Turretsections are usually used to hold weapons. Example;



Finally, drivers are also used to direct weapons to fire. This is a bit more complex. Each sub-weapon needs to have it's clip, reload and fire rate set to 1, to prevent glitchy behaviour. You set the damage and other specs like range, beam duration, etc. as desired. Select the weapons and link them to the driver with the right click menu. The driver should have the reload/clip/fire rate settings for the weapons, as well as a similar range as it basically feeds them targeting data. In this fashion, you can make a big gun turret that is like a normal turret, but fires multiple seperate projectiles or beams, and special behaviour (such as delayed fire between barrel shots for ripple fire) too.

Triggers are far more complex, and I'll leave them to someone with far more experience to explain.

I had exactly this fear of the new shipmaker. Well, two really.
First is that it would not offer any clear-cut definitions and/or instruction manuals on how to utilize this stuff. Turrets? Great! How? Basicallt I'm asking for noob guides, step-by-step procedures for how to do things. Explain everything that goes beyond the limits of the old shipmaker.

Second is exactly Hypothetical's problem, a hypothetical problem[/badpun]. I said this before the new version came out and I see it's come true: Noobs will be utterly wrecked. We saw how new builders struggled with the old version. Recall Aegis-bricks and nonexistent parenting. Worst-case scenario, they give up after being overwhelmed and we lose our income of new players.

I call for noob guides. From everyone. If you happen to fully understand some aspect of shipbuilding, make a guide on it so that we can understand it as fully as you do. From the simple, like general guidelines for weapon modding, to the intricacies of moving parts and turrets (which I have yet to tackle (or attempt for that matter)).

I fully realize that the current amount of info is not satisfactory, and what is there is either awkward, outdated or plain useless.

Right now, im working on fixing all those bugs. Once that is done, proper guides and explanations of all the new features and additions will come. Its been only two days, and theres only so much one man can do in two days. So patience, the lack of solid information will be remedied in due time.

Hypothetical Wisdom wrote:I don't mean to get off on the wrong foot or anything, but I really don't understand all this stuff, and I'm not really used to being yelled and having my first post locked simultaneously when I come to a new forum.

You got the wrong impression. You werent yelled at, and closing a thread is not a personal attack, it just makes life for everyone a little bit easier.

How do you make amazing bubble shields like this and this? I can see that they are made of the haxagonal doodad, but clearly there is something else as well.

FIREST0RM000 wrote:How do you make amazing bubble shields like this and this? I can see that they are made of the haxagonal doodad, but clearly there is something else as well.

Lookie here: http://www.wyrdysm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3495

Turrets cannot have any additional section parented to them, is this intended or a bug? It's cause I would like to be able to make very large battleships size cannons and is restricted by being only able to stretch the Turret.

1) TURRET. GET IT RIGHT.

2) They can. It's just that they're bugged right now. It'll be fixed soon.

@FS; the bubble shields are a single section, actually, not any doodads. That would just be daft.

Being someone who never really became a big time ship maker (I could operate Shipmaker 3, I just didn't make extensive use of it), I wholely sympathise with Hypothetical Wisdom... I have absolutely no idea what the Hell any of this is about either... OK, so a rotsection makes section rotate... How!? As for drivers and turret sections, I understand the concept (I think), but I ask again, how!? How do i amke any of this work?

Christ, the Shipmaker's gone from mildly unintuitive to, to paraphrase Ben Crowshaw, just a few steps shy of Microsoft Access in terms of friendlyness... You can't honestly expect to hold on to new players with the Shipmaker in this condition (then again, considering the success of equally unintutive things like Eve Online, maybe you will)... Abolsutely nothing is self-explainatory and indeed, what I can seem to get working doesn't make any bloody sense... I managed to make the rear wings of a Hestia lookalike move inwards towards the core and back again, but only when the ship is facing to the right... If it's facing to the left (for example), the sections move in the opposite directions from what I intended, floating off their pylons and out into space... And when the ship is facing up or down, they move diagonally... How the Hell did any of this happen? Your guides are tightlipped and frankly, I'm already frustrated... And I'm a veteran! I've been around snice bloody version 0.62 where every shot admiral Cherenkov fired would cause an error and I can't bloody figure any of this out...

What is going on here Arcalane?

Abolsutely nothing is self-explainatory and indeed, what I can seem to get working doesn't make any bloody sense... I managed to make the rear wings of a Hestia lookalike move inwards towards the core and back again, but only when the ship is facing to the right... If it's facing to the left (for example), the sections move in the opposite directions from what I intended, floating off their pylons and out into space... And when the ship is facing up or down, they move diagonally... How the Hell did any of this happen? Your guides are tightlipped...

That is due to shit being rather broken right now, because not enough testing was done before the public release.

And jesus christ, if you'd read the little fucking tooltips, and read the fucking F1 help manual, and even just casually look around the forums at some of the new guides posted, you'd realise that it's not even half as unintuitive as you seem to think it is. It's fairly fucking easy to figure out the how of it, even if sometimes it is complex to put into practice.

I can't get the ship deployer to work. I type in the filename of the ship, "Custom Ships\PAS.shp" but when i try to use it in sandbox, it simply says "invalid ship". "PAS.shp" is in the "Custom Ships" folder, can a ship not deploy itself or am i just doing something wrong?

If what you mean is a self-replicating ship,I just tried one and it works just fine. So you must have typed it in wrong.

Or you have Vista and installed the game into program files.

please don't type useful information into barely readable text. I do not have vista, but i did install it to program files. why is that a problem?

It would if it was Vista,other systems I'd imagine would be fine,I am however unsure.

Can you tell me exactly how you typed it?

If what you have above really is what you typed,maybe you should type it again for the benefit of the doubt?

EDIT EDIT EDIT:Do be aware that every time you load up ship maker any and all ship deployers get their target file paths set to zero(0).