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Community Patch to fix and improve original Generals Zero Hour 1.04
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Laser USA Power Plant gives more power but looks identical to regular USA Power Plant #861

Open xezon opened 2 years ago

xezon commented 2 years ago

Laser USA Power Plant gives more power but looks identical to regular USA Power Plant.

USA has green rods.

Superweapon General has blue rods.

Laser General currently has green rods, but can have purple rods.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/nproject-mod/images/advanced-cold-fusion-reactor

xezon commented 2 years ago

commy2

SWG produces 5 only. The difference is the Control Rods upgrade. So any visual difference should exist before Control Rods.

ZekeDlyoung commented 2 years ago

SWG produces 5 only. The difference is the Control Rods upgrade. So any visual difference should exist before Control Rods.

True, but this is a simple change which we already have the assets for 🙃

I do have this, but it has a somewhat larger footprint than the normal reactor: https://www.moddb.com/mods/generation-x/images/advanced-cold-fusion-reactor

commy2 commented 2 years ago

Advanced Reactor from Nuke General also looks slightly different and has a different portrait. It produces 18 power instead of 10 of vChina/Inf/Tank.

xezon commented 2 years ago

Maybe we can have Laser General Power Plant start with the green rods (maybe just partly), and then upgrade to the purple rods?

ZekeDlyoung commented 2 years ago

Maybe we can have Laser General Power Plant start with the green rods (maybe just partly), and then upgrade to the purple rods?

That could work too, but some people might see the already exposed rods and assume that it's a bug.

The purple rods are already known by people who play mods, and people who are curious about cut ZH content in general (kinda like the black and white Aurora models), so it's a bit more intuitive in a sense

xezon commented 2 years ago

Maybe the green rods can be just on half height before Upgrade, and then extend fully with purple after Upgrade.

ZekeDlyoung commented 2 years ago

Seems a bit too complicated.

IMO the purple rods still make sense. You can say that SupW Gen's reactor uses the same core as the standard USA CFR, but it interacts differently with the Advanced Control Rods to generate more power. Meanwhile, Townes' reactor uses both a different core and different control rods to increase its output even before the upgrade

ImTimK commented 2 years ago

Usa always looked like yellow to me, not green.

But yea, red would be nice for laser imo, since his laser pats/tanks also shoot red beams.

xezon commented 2 years ago

Red rods sounds nice.

MTKing4 commented 2 years ago

I also like it to be red

Also since this is expanding from one issue to another, should Particle cannon have Red beam for Laser? 😄 They did intend to do that i think, there's an unused Laser Cannon building that works in wb, same model but different name, and it doesn't have a different portrait.

commy2 commented 2 years ago

should Particle cannon have Red beam for Laser?

No reason to change that in a patch, but we could fix up the Laser Cannon building to have that and at least add localization, so the super weapon timer doesn't say MISSING blah.

MTKing4 commented 2 years ago

should Particle cannon have Red beam for Laser?

No reason to change that in a patch, but we could fix up the Laser Cannon building to have that and at least add localization, so the super weapon timer doesn't say MISSING blah.

Yeah that would be nice actually, to at least have that there, would be harmless