So what''s your favourite beam weapon effect?

Thu May 20, 2004 7:15 pm by Glitch

I've made a beam weapon for the dreadnoughts, but it looks really bad with the current effect (li_capgun_01_proj). Anyone know of one that creates a Freespace-like beam? Big and beam, not bumpy looking?

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Fri May 21, 2004 4:35 pm by Bretonian Bulldog

Use a BeamBolt or a BeamSpear. They are pretty easy to make and quite versatile, just have a look in the Beam_effects.ini for examples. For a really powerful looking beam just make the 'cores' white, with the 'outers' any strong colour you like, and give the beam a MASSIVE length (like 3000+) and a big width (at least 20). It'll look like a light-saber for as long as the shot lasts!

Oops, that reminds me: the beam_effects.ini can be found in the Freelancer/Data/FX folder. You'll need a bini decrypter to decode it, you can download bini-lite from this site.

Edited by - Vype on 5/21/2004 5:36:35 PM

Fri May 21, 2004 5:00 pm by Glitch

Sweet, great idea, thanks! Yeah, I'm pretty good with the code, so I knew where to look, I just didn't know what they all looked like

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