Destructable Battleships and Stations

Fri Apr 04, 2003 6:02 am by Shiden

Does anyone know how to do this? Have got a server set up and would like to allow for this where the stations and battleships respawn when you reset the server.

Shiden

Fri Apr 04, 2003 8:15 am by freighter fighter

Fri Apr 04, 2003 8:48 am by Thundercleese

We don't?

I was sure I did, but maybe I'm wrong?

Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:04 am by Nephilim

I believe he's talking about regular bases like Newark Station and Battleship Missouri, not encounter-types. I actually did some research to check if what Shiden proposes could be done... eventually quit in frustration over many many unresolvable issues and turned to RE's instead.

Edited by - Nephilim on 04-04-2003 10:04:36

Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:27 am by Thundercleese

Here's how to make the Battleship Missouri (and consequently all l_dreadnought's) destructable in Single Player. Note that I haven't tried this with Multiplayer.

1. Open UNIVERSE/SYSTEMS/LI01/li01.ini
2. Find the Object with a nickname = Li01_03 (that's the Missouri)
3. Find the Archetype of the Object (Battleship Missouri's is "l_dreadnought"

4. Open SOLAR/solararch.ini
5. Find your Solar archetype (a [Solar with a nickname = l_dreadnought)
6. Set destructible = true
7. Give it a reasonable number of hit_pts (or just a measly 5000 if you want to make sure it worked)
8. Go blow it up

Note that the explosion will suck. The battleship will simply disappear and its turrets will give off nice big fireballs. Consider looking at MSN_d_l_dreadnought for a reasonable explosion_arch, CollisionGroups, and fuses.

If you just wanted to make a single object destructable, you'd need to create a new Solar Archetype for it. Just copy the existing one and nickname it slightly differently.

Fri Apr 04, 2003 10:32 am by Shiden

Thanks Thunder,

will give that a shot. might also look into creating a new system so at least there is a "safe" place for us to dock. Ideally i'd like to put together something where we can blow up fixed stations with nice explosions along side waves of fighters that they throw at us including battleships and gunboats. ie, being bad asses of the entire game and facing epic battle after epic battle hahahah.

If anyone has anymore information to contribute about this, i would greatly appreciate it, Thanks!

Side tracking for a bit, it would have been cool if one could play the single player campaign in multiplayer co-op. at least one could relive the exerience together like what they did for starlancer.

Shiden

Fri Apr 04, 2003 11:04 am by reynen

I've already created several explosions for my mod. Different stations get different effects.

Here's a pic of the explosion I made after I blow up newark station

Part of the Freelancer SDK Team
http://www.homebs.com/flsdk/
Tutorials, Utilties, Mods, and much more.

Edited by - Reynen on 05-04-2003 00:30:02

Fri Apr 04, 2003 11:43 pm by admiral_tolwyn

not bad renyn! the explosion "flame" graphics are just a little too meek to be belivable for a starbase blowing up, but the frags are great! do they stay there, like the ends of a transport do after you kill them, or do they blow up seperatly too?

heres an idea, maybe you could mod the base's start somehow so that the base's owners (like "west point=navy"

now hate you 100% after you killed their base. that way, if someone wanted to get a sabre the they could take out battleship westfallen, and if they needed to make the police like them again, they could go blow up leon base or rochester

. 1 idea to do this would be to find a way to make a base's "rep value" = 100 regular ships, so blowing up trenton would be like killing 100 of universal's transports.

also in the in-game profile, in the kills section, theres a section for "Battleships Destroyed". i dont think its possible at the moment but eventually someone could make a "Bases Destroyed" and even "Planets Destroyed" section there...

Sat Apr 05, 2003 12:53 am by reynen

Well you haven't seen the entire explosion

I clicked it a split second after it exploded so you are seeing just the beginning!

There is a much bigger explosion and the screen fades to yellow for a second.

Yes destroying a base will effect your reputation as you will find out the minute you kill it

I've been planning this for my mod for awhile now.

Each base has around 5,000,000 hp and the battleships have 2,500,000 hp.

It will not be an easy task to take one out at all. I have more less made these group encounters. A full 50 torpedos will only do 2.5 mill at max. If the bases don't shoot then down :p hehe.

You'll really like it when I finish my mod. I am just about finished and will probably be releasing it tommorow.

Part of the Freelancer SDK Team
http://www.homebs.com/flsdk/
Tutorials, Utilties, Mods, and much more.

Sat Apr 05, 2003 1:50 am by Shiden

Excellent! Cant wait

Shiden

Sat Apr 05, 2003 2:07 am by Snake eye

does the base come back after you blow it up if you exit the game? cause thatd suck if you blew them all up and they never came back lol

*Insert sig here*

Sat Apr 05, 2003 4:04 am by Snake eye

<bump>

*Insert sig here*

Sat Apr 05, 2003 4:35 pm by Avelcaine

so what happens if someone docked to the station, which is then blown up?

Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:25 pm by Amun-Re

Game crashes maybe?

Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:34 pm by Snake eye

Station DOES come back i tested, its just like the weapons platforms in omega 5 by the corsair/red hessian bases. as for if someone is docked there, then there screwed untill it comes back lol.

*Insert sig here*

Important Message

You are browsing the archived Lancers Reactor forums. You cannot register or login.
The content may be outdated and links may not be functional.

To get the latest in Freelancer news, mods, modding and downloads, go to
The-Starport