Find that bug! Volume 2!

[Song]

I've been playing around with a Kinetic Rocket-turret for the early game. Balance is irrelevant, because of the main issue: The launcher code...uh....doesn't.......


http://transcendence.pastebin.com/FgdHSsHw

It's working fine as a gun....but the code SHOULD be making it be a launcher. Tried pestering Wolfy on the glorious magical communications system of the future that is IRC*, but he couldn't see the bug immediately.

So here we go.....Spot that bug!


Oh, and while all the cool people are on IRC discussing the sandbox concept, I'm on the IRC below that IRC being lonely. Join IRC.















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[Aury]

Ttech will be proud

[digdug]

launcher = "true" is an attribute of <Weapon> and not of <ItemType>

all the rest looks ok

[Ttech]

I'm very proud! Got a really good laugh out of that one. So we do a bit of advertising for IRC / Chat, its fun to do live conversations. But satire is always great. Its a fun place to be. But we are talking, and not just in the sandbox channel. Its just I'm asleep when you sign on.

[Song]

Ttech<---yeah. I was bored and decided to make a small spoof of the general "Mention IRC in any new idea thread" convention (which I do in fact approve of entirely, because IRC is cool).

Right. I've moved the launcher="true" to the <Weapon> area, but it still doesn't work. This is genuinely weird....

EDIT: I believe the problem is carried over with the code from the Smartcannon XML. In particular, the <Weapon> tag on the smartcannon has some stuff I've never seen in ANY other weapon....is it a functional thing, or can it be eliminated as a possible solution?

Here is the <Weapon> code:

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	<Weapon UNID="&itSmartCannon;" itemID="&itSmartCannon;"
				fireRate=			"15"
				powerUse=			"10"
				>

(NOTE: THIS IS NOT IN MY WEAPON. FOR MY WEAPON CODE, SEE THE EARLIER PASTEBIN, AND MOVE THE (launcher="true") TO INSIDE THE <WEAPON> CODE!)


Also, join IRC!

[speedofsquid]

It seems to work for me. You made launcher an attribute of the Weapon tag, right?

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<Weapon
     ...
     launcher="true"
     ...
     >

     [not here]

</Weapon>

[Song]

It's there, yes. However all the other launchers I've seen have it in the item tag, not the weapon tag. So I'm somewhat skeptical about the effectiveness of that.

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE TranscendenceExtension
[
<!ENTITY itHimalLauncher                                     "0xDC4E4050">   
]>

<TranscendenceExtension UNID="0xDC4E4050" version="1.0"> 


<ItemType UNID="&itHimalLauncher;"
			name=				"Himal rocket pod"
			level=				"4"
			value=				"1000"
			mass=				"1200"
			frequency=			"veryrare"

			description=		"The Himal Rocket-Pod is a light rocket turret firing tungston-tipped rockets. It is not especially accurate."
			>

		<Image imageID="&rsItems1;" imageX="0" imageY="480" imageWidth="96" imageHeight="96"/>

				<Weapon
		type=				"missile"
		launcher=			"true"
		omnidirectional=		"true"
		firerate=         	"10"
		damage=			"kinetic:2d6+1 WMD1"
		missileSpeed=		"50"
		lifetime=			"45"
		powerUse=			"7"
		sound=			"&snMissileLauncher;"


						vaporTrailLength="2"
						vaporTrailWidth="800"
						vaporTrailWidthInc="-2"
						vaporTrailColor="0xd0, 0xd0, 0xd0"
						>
<Configuration aimTolerance="5">
				<Shot angle="3d10-18"/>

			</Configuration>
					<Effect>
						<Bolt
								length=				"18"
								width=				"3"
								primaryColor=		"0xcd, 0xf3, 0xff"
								secondaryColor=		"0x8f, 0xa9, 0xb2"
								/>
					</Effect>


			<HitEffect
					sound="&snArmorHit1;"
					>
				<Image imageID="&rsExplosionsAG48;"
						imageX="0"
						imageY="0"
						imageWidth="48"
						imageHeight="48"
						imageFrameCount="16"
						imageTicksPerFrame="2"/>
			</HitEffect>
		</Weapon>

		<Invoke>
			(intAutoInstall gSource gItem)
		</Invoke>
	</ItemType>
</TranscendenceExtension>

[Aury]

oh, duh! I see what went wrong.

Surprised I didn't notice it till just now

It's actually

<ItemType blahblahblah="happyface">
<Weapon poweruse="234324384789327982" launcher="true">
<Missile ammoID"&itetc;" damage, congig, everything that isn't slots, launcher & poweruse...>
I think it was missile. Look at the nami launcher and see what I mean.

[Song]

Uh..what?


In any case, I just got it working as a launcher!

Now I just need to balance it.