Triple-shot laser

[Xolarix]

Hi!

I'm looking for a code, or a comment on whether it's possible or not.
For my next ship, I would like to have a triple-shot laser that fires in a straight line.

Now I know that there are already guns that fire 3 shots at the same time.
BUT, they fire in an arc.

Can I configure the shots in such a way that the shots fire in a straight line, and each shot is fired from a different location of the body?

ie: I want one coming from the wing, one from the middle, and one more from the other wing.
Size of the image is 35x35 px, so I want a shot at the left wing (5px inwards from the left of the image), one from the cockpit (the middle line of the image), and one from the right wing (5px inwards from the right side of the image)

And they all fire in a straight line in the direction of where the ship is facing.


can I get some help with this?

thanks in advance,

[RPC]

Okay, I think I can handle this one:
For a 3 shot laser, you could just use:

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<Configuration aimTolerance="0">
				<Shot posAngle="0" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>	
				<Shot posAngle="50" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
				<Shot posAngle="310" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
			</Configuration>

Explanation:
1. you can place <Configuration aimTolerance="how much angle you want the weapon to deviate from a straight line"> within the <Weapons tag>

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<Weapon
				type=				"missile"
				
				damage=				"kinetic:0"
				repeating= 			"150000"
				fireRate=			"30"
				hitPoints=			"25"
				interaction=		"5"
				hitEffect=			"&efShieldHit1;"
				missileSpeed=		"17"
				accelerationFactor=	"75"
				lifetime=			"10d5-7"
				powerUse=			"100"
				deviceSlots=		"0"
				noFriendlyFire=		"true"
				>				
			<Configuration aimTolerance="5">
				<Shot posAngle="180" posRadius="20" angle="0-180"/>	
				<Shot posAngle="180" posRadius="20" angle="360-181"/>
				<Shot posAngle="180" posRadius="20" angle="0-180"/>	
				<Shot posAngle="180" posRadius="20" angle="360-181"/>
				<Shot posAngle="180" posRadius="20" angle="0-180"/>	
				<Shot posAngle="180" posRadius="20" angle="360-181"/>
			</Configuration>
			<Effect>
				<Image imageID="&rsParticles;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="16" imageHeight="16" imageFrameCount="4" imageTicksPerFrame="1" randomStartFrame="true"/>
			</Effect>
		</Weapon>

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<shot 

means one shot. In this example, 6 shots are fired at the same time each time the weapon is fired.

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posAngle="180"

posAngle is the angle you want it to fire from. I think 0 is facing upwards (as in the nose of the Sapphire at the 1st facing.)

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posRadius="20"

means how far you want the shot to appear from the angle [in pixels] , which means that the shot shows up 20 pixels from center, towards the nose of the craft.

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angle="0-180"

means how much you want the shot to deviate (as in it can fire from angle x to y) from the initial firing. Since some of it is 0-180, and others are 360-181, that means all of the shots cover the full 360 degrees. This is different from posAngle and posRadius because posAngle and posRadius determine where the shot comes out, angle determines where the shot goes.
angles 0 and 360 is the same from what I've seen, and 90 is to the left of the playership.
If you want a smaller angle, use something like 355-10 to have a narrow cone in front of your ship.
Of course, there is the

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type=				"wall"

, but that is 5 shots, not 3. You can see this in Weapon Devices on the Wiki. Look at the configurations heading.
Hope it helps!

[Xolarix]

Not exactly what I asked, but maybe my wording was wrong too.
With "straight line" I meant that the shots were parallel to each other.
So not a spread, I know how to make a spread


You know the "dual" laser beam, right?

it fires 2 shots in a straight line, parallel to each other.
Now I would like to have a similar laser, but then it fires 3 shots parallel to each other.

[blizgerg]

I think what RPC is saying is that the configuration tag lets you specify where each shot comes from (radius and angle from the ship) and also the angle it fires from there. So, what you want is to have 3 shots two of them at offsets +- from the center and have them all fire in the at the same angle.

So, the configuration code RPC posted

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<Configuration aimTolerance="0">
	<Shot posAngle="0" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>	
	<Shot posAngle="50" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
	<Shot posAngle="310" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
</Configuration>

Should actually do what you want as it specifies that a shot should eminate from the polar coordinate relative to the ship facing of (0,20), (50,20) and (310, 20) and all shots should go at angle 0 from the ships facing. I.e. all shots go in the same directions.

[digdug]

<Configuration aimTolerance="0">
<Shot posAngle="0" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
<Shot posAngle="50" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
<Shot posAngle="310" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
</Configuration>

RPC is right, this makes 3 parallel shots.

I also like this:

<Configuration aimTolerance="0">
<Shot posAngle="0" posRadius="0" angle="0"/>
<Shot posAngle="90" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
<Shot posAngle="270" posRadius="20" angle="0"/>
</Configuration>

The difference between the two is the starting position of the shots:

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"trident like"

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parallel

For a bunch of configurations, there is my "old but still ok" list on xelerus: http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=61

[Xolarix]

Oh bugger, I see what I did wrong there.

I had 2 weapons installed, one of which fired in an arc.
So I changed the code, and fired my weapon.
I forgot I had the arc weapon active at that moment, so I assumed nothing had changed XD


It works now, and I got a really nice laser now. Thanks