1;//identifier
  1;//class
  bullet0.png;//bullet texture
  1;//bullets at one shot
  0;//stop at hit 0=stop where hit, 1=don't stop
  0.000000;//bullet size
  0.100000;//spread
  50.000000;//bullet speed
  50.000000;//time until bullet disappears
  500;//fire rate
  0;//trace 0=no trace, 1=blue beam, 2=bullet trace, 3=red beam, 4=green beam, 5=yellow beam
  -1;//hit visual effect colour, -1=nothing 0=?, 1=red, 2=green, 3=blue
  -1;//hit visual effect particle, -1=nothing, 0=>particle from particles.dat 
  none;//hit effect sound
  1.000000;//push target back
  -0.010000;//push shooter back
  groan2.wav;//fire sound
  claws0_hit.wav;//hit sound
  1.000000;//AI hear volume, the amount of anger the AI gets when it hears the weapon
  begin_wield_conditions;
  end_wield_conditions;
  begin_fire_effects;
    4;//effect number
      -2.000000;//parameter1
      1.000000;//parameter2
      1.000000;//parameter3
      0.000000;//parameter4
  end_fire_effects;
  begin_hit_effects;
    4;//effect number
      -2.000000;//parameter1
      1.000000;//parameter2
      0.000000;//parameter3
      0.000000;//parameter4
    23;//effect number
      -1.000000;//parameter1
      0.000000;//parameter2
      0.000000;//parameter3
      500.000000;//parameter4
  end_hit_effects;

"Marevix" said:
Alright, I'm running into a problem testing my battery graphic. I found a Duracell battery graphic online (pm me if you want the url), made it transparent, and resized it to 64x62 (wouldn't resize to 64x64). I replaced the battery's texture in items.dat to the battery graphic. It points to dura_battery.png. In the textures folder, under a subfolder labeled Map Relocation Mod, the graphic is labled dura_battery.png. In-game, the battery graphic displays alphanumeric ASCII. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

"MageKing17" said:
I was wondering if anyone could help me with a dillema.

I am trying to see if an "orbital gun" would be a feasible weapon for the advanced player. So I made one. Right now it works, but there are some problems.

The orbital weapon fires immediately when the quick-key is pressed, and I would like a delay. I tried using the built-in delay for scripts, but apparently that doesn't effect a script that is being called by an effect. Also, there doesn't seem to be a "delay" or "pause" or "wait" effect.

The explosion when the blast hits the ground has the speed, damage, size, and energy drain (50!) I want it to have, but the knockback doesn't seem to be working. And yes, I am having the script use effect 65 to activate weapon knockback. [Edit]The weapon is, I might add, killing the enemies I've tested it on in one shot. This is due to the high energy drain and power an orbital cannon would theoretically have, but I thought that killing hits still knocked back the creature (I have a memory of this with the Warp Gun, although that could be my mind playing tricks on me)[/Edit]

I need to know how to disable the weapon in certain areas (indoor ones, like the bunker and the ship).

"Grim Reaper" said:
Orbital gun ,eh? Well, could you tell me how do u fire it, cuz if you fire it by firing a marker OSLT at the enemy, then the delay would be easy. Just delay the marker bullet thing. If you do it by some other means, could you please elaborate?

"Quanrian" said:
That could definately work or you could use the bar to set up your own custom timer. Having the second script go off and reset the bar at the same time. That should give you the delay you require. With two bars you could set it up even better however and use the same timer bar for delays for multiple weapons, having them use different values that the bar must be at.

Here's how you'd hypothetically set it up.

Two Bars : First bar will be your toggle, it will either be 0 or 1, it will be triggered by the weapon when it fires. The second bar will be your actual counter.

Player must have both bars in their race data. The first will set the default values, 0 for both. You'll than use a speciality that tells it when ever the toggle bar is great than 0 it should increase the counter bar x amount, the amount being whatever rate you want it to increase by.

So now you should just have to change the toggle bar to make the counter bar increase. You'll now want a script to check the value of the counter bar, and than have it fire the weapon. Remember to also reset the counter bar AND reset the toggle bar as well. That should give you a highly customizable delay.

"Casanova" said:
There is no need to use bars at all, all you need are two scripts. Script A is set to run without calling every millisecond, has n seconds delay for the effect, and then disables itself. The other script is set to run on game load and disables script A. To run the first script, call effect 35 to activate it whenever you want it.

Have you tried my mod? It has an airstrike attack which may be similar to what you want to add.

"MageKing17" said:
2) Perhaps you're not understanding. The gun works. The problem is, it works too fast. I have the n seconds delay set, and use effect 35 to activate the script. The problem is, it doesn't wait n seconds. It activates the gun immediately.

"Quanrian" said:
Actually that is something Ville changed. He got rid of the delay for when a script is called. Not sure why, but I believe someone complained about it. I never personally saw it as a problem since you could always just set the delay to 0 anyways. As I said though, I'm not really sure why he changed that, but my assumption was always that it was due to a complaint with someone not being able to get something to work with their mod, but as I said they could of always just set the delay to 0.

"Casanova" said:
Could you be more specific on the problems you have with effect 24 and 65 param3? They been working fine to me.

"MageKing17" said:
Whenever I use effect 24 or 65 with param3=2, the weapon does NOT repeat does NOT fire towards the nearest creature. In fact, it doesn't fire towards ANY creature.