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Ok, I've tried for a few days to figure out how to mod weapons correctly.

I can't.

I've read both threads on weapon modding, and their about as clear as mud to me (sorry, visual/tactile learner here).

What I'm trying to accomplish is to make a simple 'autocannon' style weapon out of a Blaster.

I set the fire rate to 30, the clip size to 10, the reload to 10, the range to 1800 and the arc to 45.

I made a simple ship with 4 deflectors, 2 particle guns, 2 Flak Cannons and enough space to set six weapons on it.

My problem is that after I unload the first clip, the weapons go into their cooldown period, they all start to fire at different intervals. Two cannons will fire normally, but the other four just fire at different times/intervals. It doesn't make any sense to me.

The other thing is that it has a exorbident re-load time with a reload set to 10. I want the cannon to fire one shot every second for 10 seconds, then go into a 5 second cooldown period, how do I accomplish that?

I'll make it easy for you to understand: First clip expends itself with one shot every second for ten seconds, which is what I want.

The second clip loads and every blaster starts firing at different intervals.

Shouldn't setting the reload and fire rate keep them all firing in the same interval?

Before I post this, I will say that I clone my weapons from the original to save myself time.

And please note that I will come back to this thread with more questions as they crop up.

From what I understood from your post (and what I understand about modding), each gun individualy aims and looses their target. That means that some will acquire before others, and some will randomly loose it in the middle of a clip.

First, for a five second cooldown period, you would need a reload time of 150.

Secondly, every turret is controlled separately. They will actively seek the target under the AI, and for enemy ships on each side of your ship, the blasters might seek them out instead of only going for once.

Thirdly, I think that the problem you are encountering is a Ship Maker error. I would suggest going back into the blueprint and re-checking every blaster individually.

Essentially;

Cooldown: 30
Clipsize: 10
Reload: 150

Easy. Remember that the editor uses frames for it's Cooldown and Reload values, and the game works at 30 frames = 1 second, so a reload of 150 = 5 seconds.

Chances are it's as Raithah says and they're losing/reacquiring targets mid magazine or mid reload, and the turning time then offsets the firing.

Synchronised weapons as a Ship Maker feature, perhaps?

YES!

Fire-linked Turret-Mounted!

WITH DANNYS TURRET SPRITES!

At the time being, if you want to synchronise weapons press H to hold fire and press H to stop hold fire when enemies are in range can have those weapons fire at once

Okay, lets make it real simple, if you want the blaster cannon to fire like an autocannon, make the reload time: 1 in the weapon editor, this will make the reload time .03 seconds in game (well, assuming a healthy FPS of course), and then make the cooldown time 1 as well, make the firing rate 1 as well, making the cooldown .03 seconds as well. It's that simple. THen it'll fire as fast as possible.

Alrighty, I've got most of the problems with the Blaster worked out, now I'm trying to make a simple Pulse Laser.

I want ti to fire for 2 frames, then cooldown for 2 frames and fire again for two frames. Continuously. You'd think it'd be so simple, set the fire rate to 2 and the reload to 2.

All that does is make a continuous beam laser. Which, in and of itself, is cool, but certainly not what I wanted.

Anyone ever figure out how to do that with, say, a mining beam? or any kind of beamer?

You can only change the duration of beams in ship maker 3.0. I've found that setting a mining laser to a duration of 1% (absurdly low I know, but it works) and setting reload to a minimum of 5 (1/6th of a second) will make it pulse repeatedly. Just don't forget to change the damage if you want it to actually do anything because changing the duration to be that low also significantly lowers the beam's DPS.

The beamers have a fixed duration. Your best bet until SM3.0 goes public is a modified scatterbeam which has a duration of about 3-10 frames.

Which is stupid advice because it makes the blasters obscenely powerful assuming you're not trying to touch the damage stats.

I did an autoblaster for my Privateer Cruiser ship (it had two such autoblasters - which were modified blasters; I needed the space /and/ the firepower) and it took several tweaks to get a more reasonable fire rate without the Cruiser tearing stock ships into pieces.

Honestly, a ROF/reload of 15-30 is better without being sheer wank/overkill.

And TURRETZ!