Freelancer pack

[RPC]

BTW, is there a way to change the standard shield hit effects and sound?

Glad you asked >:D
I got this idea from DSMK2 and it's used for his dreadnought.
I have (maybe will?) used it in my personal mod and here's some code for you to test out:

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				<ItemType 
						name=				"Honzavesely gunship shield"
						level=				"2"
						value=				"0"
						mass=				"3139"
						frequency=			"common"
						attributes=			"Honzavesely; MinorEquipment; HonzaveselyMinorEquipment; "

						description=		"This shield is used by Honzavesely gunships."

						
						>

					<Image imageID="&rsItemsEI1;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="96" imageHeight="96"/>

					<Shields
							hitPoints=		"46"
							regen=			"37"
							depletionDelay=	"318"
							powerUse=		"136"
							/>
				
			
				<Events>
						
							<OnShieldDamage>
								(block Nil
									(sysCreateEffect &efBeamAbsorb; gSource aHitPos)
									)
							</OnShieldDamage>
							
				</Events>
			
				
				</ItemType>
				
				
	<Effect UNID="&efBeamAbsorb;">
		<Shockwave
				style=			"image"
				lifetime= "15"
				fadeStart = "40"
				speed=			"7"
				>
			<Image imageID=				"&rsShatterShockwave;"
					imageX=				"0" 
					imageY=				"0" 
					imageWidth=			"512" 
					imageHeight=		"128"
					/>
		</Shockwave>
	</Effect>

All you have to do is make the effects and stick them in the shield's event

[Autohummer]

Thanks. I think I can extract the shield effects straight from FL, I think it's just a flat texture. Now all that is left are the countermeasures and the cruise engines and the cruise disruptor.

(Unrelated discussion: The mining drone on that Dreadnought may be useful for making a resource collector?)

[RPC]

Yes, I was thinking about using that code as well.

[Autohummer]

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		<Weapon
				type=				"particles"
				damage=				"laser:1"
				fireRate=			"7"
				missileSpeed=		"99"
				lifetime=			"30"
				powerUse=			"4"
				particleCount=		"1"

				sound= "&snLaserCannon;">		
			<effect>
				<MoltenBolt
                 		 width=            "4"
                 		 length=            "20"
                  		 growth=            "3"
                  		 primaryColor=      "0x99, 0x66, 0x33"
                  		 secondaryColor=      "0xCC, 0x99, 0x00"
                  		/>
            			<ParticleComet
                 		particleCount=   "30"
                  		primaryColor=   "0xcc, 0xcc, 0x00"
                 		width=         "8"
                  		length=         "120"
                  		/>
			</effect>
		</Weapon>

I tried firing this, but no projectile comes out, what is wrong?

[RPC]

This works:

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<ItemType UNID="&ittest;"
			name=				"test item"
			level=				"7"
			value=				"0"
			mass=				"4000-"
			frequency=			"notrandom"
			modifiers=			"MajorItem; SolarReactor; NotForSale;"

			description=		"A weapon best used against spams."
			>
		<Image imageID="&rsItems1;" imageX="96" imageY="0" imageWidth="96" imageHeight="96"/>

		<Weapon 
            type=            "missile"
            damage=            "laser:1"
            fireRate=         "7"
            missileSpeed=      "99"
            lifetime=         "30"
            powerUse=         "4"
            particleCount=      "1"

            sound= "&snLaserCannon;">      
         <Effect>
            <MoltenBolt
				width=           	 "4"
				length=           	 "20"
				growth=           	 "3"
				primaryColor=     	 "0x99, 0x66, 0x33"
				secondaryColor=      "0xCC, 0x99, 0x00"
				/>
			 <ParticleComet
				particleCount=  	"30"
				primaryColor=  		"0xcc, 0xcc, 0x00"
				width=         		"8"
				length=        		"120"
				/>
         </Effect>
      </Weapon>
	  </Itemtype>

Basically change type= to missiles.

[Autohummer]

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	<ItemType UNID="&itadvdebilitator;"
			name=				"CP-d 'Debilitator' Civilian Advanced Pulse Cannon"
			level=				"7"
			value=				"22310"
			mass=				"1000"
			modifiers=			"EnergyWeapon; MajorItem;"
			frequency=			"common"
			showReference=		"true"
			omnidirectional=	"true"
			description=		"This is a pulse-based weapon that does enormous amounts of shield damage, but virtually no hull damage. This 

weapon is most effective against positron shields, and weakest against graviton shields. This is the best Civilian Pulse Cannon available."
			sortName=			"pulse cannon, civilian"
			>

		<Image imageID="&rsweaponicon;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="70" imageHeight="68"/>

		<Weapon
				type=				"beam"
				damage=				"generic:2"
				fireRate=			"15"
				lifetime=			"30"
				powerUse=			"47"
				particleCount=		"1"

				sound= "&snpulse4;">	
			<events>
				<OnDamageShields>
				(setq aShieldDamageHP 80)
				</OnDamageShields>
			</events>	
			<effect>
				<Starburst
               style=         "morningStar"
               spikeCount= "1d10"
               spikeLength= "1d10"
               primaryColor=      "0x00, 0xf7, 0xff"
               secondaryColor=      "0xff, 0xff, 0xff"
               />
			   </effect>
		</Weapon>

	</ItemType>	

This oddly makes the pulse cannon a shield-bypassing hull-buster instead of a shield-busting, hull-scratching weapon.

[RPC]

I think the problem is that generic damage isn't really blocked... :/
You could probably set the damage to laser:0 and since the script does the shield damage for you if it hits hull it won't do any damage.

[digdug]

you might want to use special damage modifiers too.
http://transcendence.kronosaur.com/wiki ... descriptor

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damage=            "generic:2;shield9"

the shield descriptor will multiply the damage to the shields, giving low damage to armors and high to shields.

Since you are making a conversion, you might also take a damage type for shield buster weapons (such as ion ?) and then make all your armors partially immune or highly resistant to ion, achieving the same effect.

[Atarlost]

You're passing damage improperly.

aShieldDamageHP is not a return value. Changing it has no effect. What does damage is what is returned.

[quote=wiki]<OnDamageShields>

This event is called when a projectile from this weapon hits the shields on a ship.

If the event returns Nil, the shields process the damage normally.

If the event returns an integer, then the shields are by-passed and the value is interpreted as the amount of damage to do to armor.

If the event returns the string “reflect”, then the projectile is reflected and neither shields nor armor take any damage.

If the event returns a list, then the list must have three elements. The first element is either the string “reflect” or Nil. The second element is the number of HP to subtract from the current shield level. The third element is the number of HP to do to armor.[/quote]

Your last statement is your return value, in this case setq returns 80 so the event returns 80 and 80 damage bypasses the shields completely.

What you want is:

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(list nil 80 0)

[Autohummer]

Thanks, the code worked like a charm.


Here is the Beta version of the Civilian ship pack. Only Civilian guns and ships are included.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4uvddg

[Autohummer]

Is there a way to make the shield play a different sound depending on the amount of damage it takes in one hit?

[RPC]

Yeah, in the OnshieldHit event (or something similar), you can insert code that looks like this

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(switch
	(check for damage here)
		(sysPlaySound blah blah blah)
	(check for damage here)
		(sysPlaySound blah blah blah)
	(check for damage here)
		(sysPlaySound blah blah blah)
	)

and it should play according to damage.

[Autohummer]

Shields now added, though I still don't know how to get the hit sounds to work.

Next on the to-do list are missiles and torpedoes. Stay tuned.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vnhgke

A snag that I hit is that the game seems to be unable to load the .wav files from the resources folder. Any pointers for solving this?

[Autohummer]

I figured it out, Transcendence would not read compressed .wav files, they must be converted to an uncompressed format before it is usable.

I'm trying to get the shield to play a sound when it takes 1-9, 10-49 and >50 damage, but the code below doesn't work.

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			<OnshieldDamage>
				(block Nil
				aShieldDamageHP 
					(switch
						(gr aShieldDamageHP 1)
							;(sysPlaySound &snsh_li01;)
						(gr aShieldDamageHP 10)
							;(sysPlaySound &snsh_li02;)
						(gr aShieldDamageHP 50)
							;(sysPlaySound &snsh_li03;)							
					)
				)
			</OnshieldDamage>

[RPC]

Try this:

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		<OnshieldDamage>
            (block Nil
               (switch
                  (gr aShieldDamageHP 1)
                     (sysPlaySound &snsh_li01;)
                  (gr aShieldDamageHP 10)
                     (sysPlaySound &snsh_li02;)
                  (gr aShieldDamageHP 50)
                     (sysPlaySound &snsh_li03;)                     
               )
			   aShieldDamageHP
            )
         </OnshieldDamage>