So 1.2beta's laser effects.....

[Jay2Jay]

I cant find them in the xml. When I look at a weapon's xml there is nothing there that tells me what the shot will look like except for the standard "beam" attribute, but there is nothing to distinguish a turbolaser from a bolide or a normal laser shot in the xml, however they are obviously different in game.

This is the code for the turbolaser's weapon attribute

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<Weapon
	type=				"beam"

	damage=				"laser:3d4"
	fireRate=			"12"
	lifetime=			"30"
	powerUse=			"60"

	effect=				"&efLaserBeamDefault;"
	hitEffect=			"&efGreenLaserHitEffect;" 
	sound=				"&snLaserCannon;"
	>
</Weapon>

and this is the laser cannon's

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<Weapon
	type=				"beam"

	damage=				"laser:1d4"
	fireRate=			"10"
	lifetime=			"30"
	powerUse=			"10"

	effect=				"&efLaserBeamDefault;"
	sound=				"&snLaserCannon;"
	>
</Weapon>

Can you see my dilemma?

[RPC]

Each weapon damage effect has an effect that looks something like this:

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<EffectType UNID="&efLaserBeamDefault;"
			instance=			"owner"
			>
		<Effect>
			<Ray
					style=			"smooth"
					shape=			"tapered"
					/>
		</Effect>

		<Events>
			<GetParameters>
				;	This event allows us to initialize effect parameters based 
				;	on weapon properties. In particular, we adjust the size of 
				;	the effect based on the amount of average damage.
				;
				;	For weapon effects, gData has the following fields:
				;
				;	damageHP: The average number of hit points of damage.
				;	speed: The speed of the shot (as a percent of lightspeed).
				;
				;	The event must return a structure with each field representing
				;	a parameter for the effect. For Ray effects, valid fields are:
				;	intensity, length, width, primaryColor, and secondaryColor.

				(block (damageHP primaryColor secondaryColor)
					(setq damageHP (@ gData 'damageHP))

					;	Color depends on damage

					(switch
						(geq damageHP 15)
							(block Nil
								(setq primaryColor "#D500FF")
								(setq secondaryColor "#6A00FF")
								)

						(geq damageHP 7)
							(block Nil
								(setq primaryColor "#55FF00")
								(setq secondaryColor "#2A8000")
								)

						(geq damageHP 4)
							(block Nil
								(setq primaryColor "#FF5500")
								(setq secondaryColor "#802A00")
								)

						(block Nil
							(setq primaryColor "#FF0000")
							(setq secondaryColor "#800000")
							)
						)
					
					{
						length:
							(mathScale 
								damageHP						; average damage of weapon
								1								; min damage
								30								; max damage
								60								; min beam length
								220								; max beam length
								50								; scale gamma
								)
						width: (mathScale damageHP 1 30 12 28 50)
						intensity: 35

						primaryColor: primaryColor
						secondaryColor: secondaryColor
						}
					)
			</GetParameters>
		</Events>
	</EffectType>

[Jay2Jay]

dafuq.....

[Jay2Jay]

I should clarify, I meant the shot itself, not the actual hit effect.

[digdug]

In 1.2 beta the laser and kinetic weapon effects (the actual shot) is generated dynamically by efLaserBeamDefault.

In fact, in every weapon there is an effect (the shot graphics) and a hiteffect (graphics when the weapon hits something)

effect= "&efLaserBeamDefault;"

So, you have to search for efLaserBeamDefault. RPC posted exactly that.

[Jay2Jay]

What do you mean by "generated dynamically"?

[digdug]

read the efLaserBeamDefault code:
lasers will have different colours depending on the average damage of the weapon. Also the size length and width of the beam effect changes depending on the average damage.

[Jay2Jay]

I get it now thanks digdug-sensei.