Gentlemen, We Have Weapon errors.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

Well, once again, I am requesting the help of the Transcendence Community to assist me in my Mods. I currently am trying to make a custom weapon, and I want to declare it in the same file as my ship on which it is mounted. and I have no Idea what the Grammar for that would be. My question is, Where do I declare it in the file?

[Drako Slyith]

Declare the <!ENTITY UNID="0xXXXXXXXX"> beneath where you declared the other UNIDs. Then, right above where you end the extension (</TranscendenceExtension>) put your weapon data. Basic weapon code is this:

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	<ItemType UNID="&itLaserCannon;"
			name=				"laser cannon"
			level=				"1"
			value=				"250"
			mass=				"1000"
			frequency=			"common"
			attributes=			"EI; EnergyWeapon; MajorItem"
			showReference=		"true"

			description=		"A popular weapon for light freighters and fast gunships. This weapon is manufactured by the Earth Industries Conglomerate."
			>

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

		<Weapon
				type=				"beam"

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

				beamType=			"laser"
				primaryColor=		"0xf1, 0x5f, 0x2a"
				secondaryColor=		"0xff, 0x00, 0x00"
				sound=				"&snLaserCannon;"
				>
		</Weapon>
	</ItemType>

It's the code for a standard laser cannon.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

Ok, new prob.

"Invalid weapon fire type"

?!

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<ItemType UNID="&itAdvancedPlasmaCannon;"
			name=				"Advanced Plasma Cannon"
			level=				"11"
			value=				"100000"
			mass=				"6000"
			frequency=			"veryrare"
			modifiers=			"EI;  Military; MajorItem; "

			description=		"an advanced plasma Cannon is the most powerful weapon. unquestionably."
			>

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

		<Weapon
				type=				"beamweapon"

				repeating=                                          "6"
				damage=				"plasma:8d12;WMD4"
				fireRate=			"3"
				lifetime=			"32"
                                                                      hitPoints=			"50"
				powerUse=			"4000"

				counter=			"capacitor"
				counterActivate=	"-5"
				counterUpdate=		"2"
				counterUpdateRate=	"5"					
				>
  
                                                     <Effect>
                                                                <MoltenBolt
						width=				"16"
						growth=				"30"
						primaryColor=		"0xfe, 0xff, 0xce"
						secondaryColor=		"0xff, 0xeb, 0x26"
						/>
                                                                  </Effect>
		</Weapon>

             </ItemType>

[Drako Slyith]

I think it's the "beamWeapon". I think you want either "beam" or "missile"

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

Hmm.. now it's saying "invalid beam weapon type"

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<ItemType UNID="&unidAdvancedPlasmaCannon;"
			name=				"Advanced Plasma Cannon"
			level=				"11"
			value=				"100000"
			mass=				"6000"
			frequency=			"veryrare"
			modifiers=			"EI;  Military; MajorItem; "

			description=		"an advanced plasma Cannon is the most powerful weapon. unquestionably."
			>

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

		<Weapon
				type=				"beam"

				repeating=                                          "6"
				damage=				"plasma:8d12;WMD4"
				fireRate=			"3"
				lifetime=			"32"
                                                                    	powerUse=			"4000"
                                                                       
				counter=			"capacitor"
				counterActivate=	"-5"
				counterUpdate=		"2"
				counterUpdateRate=	"5"					
				>
  
                                                     <Effect>
                                                                <MoltenBolt
						width=				"16"
						growth=				"30"
						primaryColor=		"0xfe, 0xff, 0xce"
						secondaryColor=		"0xff, 0xeb, 0x26"
						/>
                                                                  </Effect>

		</Weapon>

             </ItemType>

</TranscendenceExtension>

Btw, thanks for all the help, Drako Slyith.

[Drako Slyith]

try putting type as particles. It may be that plasma doesn't work with beam.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

I'm stumped. still getting errors. invalid weapon, Blah Blah.

I'll turn in for the night; maybe you could figure this out?

[ThePrivateer]

try putting type as particles. It may be that plasma doesn't work with beam.

This here is the coding for a Plasma gun like the Ferrian plasma cannon. It shoots out the weird little glowing particles that look like fire.

But this is for a standard, tear-drop shaped plasma weapon. Both examples taken from StdWeapons.xml, by the way.

Try modding off of those ones.

[RPC]

I think I can handle this one:

The effect <MoltenBolt> can only be used by missile types, such as

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weapon= "missile"

A quick fix would be to just change the weapon to missile.



Explanation:
I find missile to be versatile in that you could insert in your own images using

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<Effect>
				<Image imageID="&rsParticles;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="16" imageHeight="16" imageFrameCount="12" imageTicksPerFrame="2" randomStartFrame="true"/>
			</Effect>

I learned the hard way that certain weapontypes only take certain effects:
Scanning the Transcendence.tdb, I found that "beam" takes these configurations:
"starblaster"-> Used on the katana.
can specify colors using hexadecimal.

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                                beamType=			"starblaster"
				primaryColor=		"0x00, 0x80, 0xff"
				secondaryColor=		"0x80, 0xc0, 0xff"

"lightning"-> Used on the Ares lightning turret
can specify colors using hexadecimal as well as intensity (I think Wolfy knows what intensity is- I personally have no clue)

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beamType=			"lightning"
				primaryColor=		"0xf0, 0xff, 0xa0"
				secondaryColor=		"0xa9, 0xff, 0x00"
				intensity=			"5"

"blaster"-> used on the bolide

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beamType=			"blaster"

"heavyblaser"-> used on the TeV9

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beamType=			"heavyblaster"
				primaryColor=		"0x33, 0xff, 0x33"
				secondaryColor=		"0x00, 0x99, 0x00"
				intensity=			"5"

"laser"-> used on the mining laser

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beamType=			"laser"
				primaryColor=		"0xf1, 0x5f, 0x2a"
				secondaryColor=		"0xff, 0x00, 0x00"
				sound=				"&snLaserCannon;"

"greenparticle"-> cool looking one. Used on the lancer cannon

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beamType=			"greenparticle"

[digdug]

Very nice tutorial rpc !
Don't forget blueparticle, which works like greenparticle and currently it's not used in vanilla.

And yes, afaik <effect> is not accepted in beam weapons, only missile and particles type weapons.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

Okay, Thank you all for the help! turns out I had just misspelled "Missile"... Bummer, Huh? fixed now.

[RPC]

Digdug: there's blueparticle? Cool! How did you know that? Gonna check it out today.

Resident Pyromaniac: interesting. The latest weapon on the forums had Weapon="beam". Way off from "missile", huh? I don't like how these random spelling errors break the game, like forgetting a /, ) or a </>. I guess it helps to do things slowly.

[Drako Slyith]

Resident Pyromaniac: interesting. The latest weapon on the forums had Weapon="beam". Way off from "missile", huh? I don't like how these random spelling errors break the game, like forgetting a /, ) or a </>. I guess it helps to do things slowly.

It really stinks to misplace a ")" while scripting... Especially because the game won't catch it in most situations.

[alterecco]

Most languages are like that. When you script or mod you really need to pay attention to what you are doing.