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StargateInvasion / SGI

Stargate Invasion is a mod for Sins of a Solar Empire.
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Replace Asgard Beam Ability with Asgard Beam Weapons #40

Closed dotNfg closed 6 years ago

dotNfg commented 7 years ago

Ace will provide the XSI scenes. Once these are ready, the XSI mesh points plugin can be used to add the weapons to the models. The number of weapons on each existing mesh should be checked, either with Sins dev mode, 3d Object Converter or directly inside the .mesh file code and the new weapons set as the next one up - if the mesh has weapon 0 and weapon 1, this means the new beam weapons must be weapon 2 and so on. Once it's exported (info for this process is available in the Ironclad PDF file that comes with Forge Tools 3), the code for the new mesh points will need to be copied over to the existing .mesh files and the mesh point count increased accordingly. The entities the meshes are connected to must also be updated to include the beam weapon (can be copied over from the BC304 entity file) and the entity number of weapon count should be increased to match this change. Sins treats weapon counts in a top down fashion, meaning that the top weapon logged in the entity file is weapon 0, next weapon down is weapon 1 and so on. The location of the beam weapon in the entity file should match the name of the mesh point in the .mesh file (if the beam is the 3rd logged weapon then the associated mesh points must be weapon 2 as the first weapon is always weapon 0). After the first ship has been changed in this way (entity and mesh files), a test needs to be run in game with the model in question to see if this change causes errors due to the weapon being locked by research.

dotNfg commented 7 years ago

Replaced Heracles Hero Asgard Beam ability with beam weapons

dotNfg commented 7 years ago

Human Titans have Asgard Beam weapons now. These are disabled for the moment with 0 damage while we decide what to do with the Asgard Beam ability slot.

dotNfg commented 7 years ago

Asgard Beams on both titans are now enabled as weapons, the Tartarus uses advanced beams which are more powerful and will eventually have their own research subject and slightly altered effect. Both Asgard Beam abilities on the Titans have been removed and will eventually be replaced with new abilities.

dotNfg commented 6 years ago

All Asgard Beams are now weapons, issue is closed.