Modding made ezier? Popostrus or not?

[Charon Mass of Goo]

how could I make a weapon to fragment into smaller fragments, and then doing it again? I.E. the Explosive Recoiless cannon, only each of the breakoffs breakoff again... is that possible?

It's possible. See where the <fragment> section is in relation to the main weapon? Note how the fragment weapon is almost a complete weapon in it's own right - all you need to do is put another fragment section inside that one. You can just nest as many fragment sections like that as you want - just put each one inside the previous one.

In practice however if a ship is close enough to set off the first fragment, it will probably set off almost all of the secondary fragments as well - resulting in all 500 billion of them striking at the same time, creating a huge ruckus and lagging the game. Works great for flak-type wepaons with low lifetimes though.

Well, what I was thinking was MAKING a Flak type weapon. I want it to target missles. then have one that is speciffically for destroying groups of ships in a smaller radius.

another question: I want a weapon that can fire on all four sides of the ship. But the problem is, I don't want them all firing in the same direction. Is there any possible way to make it so that the weapon fires so that the projectiles shoot in different directions, using differant firing arcs so they aren't all targeted in the same direction?

[Periculi]

Ah, well, you have a couple of choices there.

The easy one you may want to use involves 3 attributes:

configuration= "spread4"

and

omnidirectional="true"

and

multiTarget="true"

which will result in 4 shots that will each try to target a separate ship if available.

To get the shots actually coming from four different sides of the ship will take some tinkering with the <configuration> tag instead of using "spread4".

[OddBob]

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				<Configuration aimTolerance="5">
					<Shot angle="0"/>
					<Shot angle="90"/>
					<Shot angle="180"/>
					<Shot angle="270"/>
				</Configuration>

I belive you can also use min and max fire arc with the configuration - however an omni weapon points the whoel wepaon at the enemy, so if you had say, shotangle 90 you would never hit anything.

[Charon Mass of Goo]

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				<Configuration aimTolerance="5">
					<Shot angle="0"/>
					<Shot angle="90"/>
					<Shot angle="180"/>
					<Shot angle="270"/>
				</Configuration>

I belive you can also use min and max fire arc with the configuration - however an omni weapon points the whoel wepaon at the enemy, so if you had say, shotangle 90 you would never hit anything.

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Beaver dam... I might as well go with that "Fire all weapons at once" mod-type thing on xelarus.

[OddBob]

I didn't say it wasn't possible, only that with a single shot 90 degree weapon you won't hit anything without min and max fire arc. What exactly are you trying to do here anyway?

[Charon Mass of Goo]

I didn't say it wasn't possible, only that with a single shot 90 degree weapon you won't hit anything without min and max fire arc. What exactly are you trying to do here anyway?

lol i don't know...

I was gonna ask for help... but I changed my mind about the fragmenting fragment, as it turns out, it would be to much of a hassle to get the effect I want... not to mention you were right about it just exploding right away. I'll just change it so that it fragments into more peices instead.

[Ttech]

I didn't say it wasn't possible, only that with a single shot 90 degree weapon you won't hit anything without min and max fire arc. What exactly are you trying to do here anyway?

lol i don't know...

I was gonna ask for help... but I changed my mind about the fragmenting fragment, as it turns out, it would be to much of a hassle to get the effect I want... not to mention you were right about it just exploding right away. I'll just change it so that it fragments into more peices instead.

You can always talk to Taben, on IRC, he's the expert. :

[Charon Mass of Goo]

Yes he is. but I finally figured what I want. fragment, fragment, and if the secondary fragments don't hit something, then they shockwave. already posted it in my fragmenting fragmentorz thingie...