Setting reverse thrust to speed boost

Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:44 pm by Spasian One

ok, as written in ThresholdRPG's post in a tutorial, he states that "X" can be changed so that it gives a forward speed boost. Here's a quote,

"in order to get from A to B fasted, I added the little trick where X becomes a 990 speed boost. You really cannot fight at that speed at all- it is just good for travel."

I would like to know how to do this. I've been editing INI files for a few weeks now, but have yet to run into a line that would hint at this, but it's probably in a file I haven't searched through. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:24 pm by LordFjord

set the reverse fraction of the engine of ur ship to a negative value (engine_equip.ini)

Fjord

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Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:57 pm by Argh

Yup, that'll do it.

In terms of the way that the engine handles things, Thrusters and Reverse Thrust are handled in just about the same way- they either add or subtract from the currently-asked-for speed...

Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:04 am by Spasian One

Thank you very much for the info. If it's not too much trouble, could you point me to a link on what the value equals in game speed?

Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:12 am by Argh

Sure... basically you need to do a little math:

The default Starflier's engine has a top speed of 80-ish. This is arrived at by the following equation:

Max_Force (Engine) / Linear_Drag (Engine + Ship) = Top Speed

Now, in the engine's file, it lists a variable called reverse_force, which is set at 0.2.

Since the top speed is 80... multiplying that by 0.2 gives us a speed of -16 (in the game, you'll usually see 15 though, for reasons that I won't go into here).

So, let's say you want to go 990, right? To do that, we need to multiply the top speed by 12.375, and we need to make it negative, so that it's speed in the positive direction. So rewrite the line in engine_equip.ini-->ge_gf1_engine_01 like so:

reverse_force = -12.375

Try it out in the game... preferably far, far away from asteroids

Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:35 am by Spasian One

Thanks very much again for your help. =)

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