Tractor Beam Question

Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:04 am by Moloch

I might have overlooked this in the tutorials, but does anyone know if the tractor beam can be modified. Max range for individual tractoring is 1500 and the range for the automated tractoring of all items is 1000. Those values suck when all of your guns have a range of 50000. So if you stumbled upon it in your own modding or know where that information is, I and others would appreciate any help.

Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:02 am by Chips

You not only overlooked this that way - but i answered this a few posts back too.......scroll down and look at others posting - it started with scanners methinks

Sat Aug 30, 2003 7:40 pm by Born To Be Wild

Did you use my Far Shoot MOD? Glad to see a user. To do this, go into market_misc.ini

There are entrys there that look like:

[Scanner
nickname = ge_s_scanner_01
ids_name = 263750
ids_info = 264750
volume = 0.000000
mass = 10
range = 2500
cargo_scan_range = 2000
lootable = false

[Scanner
nickname = ge_s_scanner_02
ids_name = 263751
ids_info = 264751
volume = 0.000000
mass = 10
range = 5000
cargo_scan_range = 2000
lootable = false

[Tractor
nickname = ge_s_tractor_01
ids_name = 263744
ids_info = 264744
volume = 0.000000
mass = 10
max_length = 1500
reach_speed = 2000
color = 178.500000, 178.500000, 255.000000
operating_effect = tractor_beam
tractor_complete_snd = tractor_complete
lootable = false

Hope that helps,
born to be wild

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Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:22 pm by Moloch

This is from keymap.ini

[KeyCmd
nickname = USER_TRACTOR_BEAM
ids_name = 1443
ids_info = 3237
state = keydown
key = "B", SHIFT

[KeyCmd
nickname = USER_COLLECT_LOOT
ids_name = 1672
ids_info = 3238
state = keydown
key = "B"

The problem is with the second command. Even if your tractor beam is capable of getting items at far ranges one at a time via the Shift+B command, The User_Collect_Loot command won't work with items beyond 1k. Has anyone been able to fix that?

Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:28 pm by Chips

I take it your talking about MP there - and not SP.........cos it works fine in SP for me - and for many others. In fact - thinking bout TNG - it also works fine on there MP servers - so obviously some things are controlled server side - tractor range being one of them then.........

Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:24 am by Moloch

Chips, thanks for your insight, but let me confirm that you interpretted me correctly. You're saying that simply pressing the B key, the command that collects all the loot at once, works on items farther than 1k away?

Test it and get back to me. Because I increased all the ranges in the ini file, but the automatic collection of loot is still limited to items within 1k of me. To get things farther out i have to individually target and tractor them - that sux.

I'm talking just about SP, so server/client issues are irrelevant.

Tue Sep 09, 2003 3:25 pm by Chips

Sorry, reviving this thread here, i checked - he is right........lol
What do i add to the constants.ini to fix this problem?? cos i guess thats where i am missing something!!

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