Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:52 pm
weapon explosion type, looking for advice and/or opinions
OK, so the mod is coming along great, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Anyway, I took the nomad torpedo launcher, spcified it as a torpedo HpType (no more mounting it on gun/missle HPs) It is EXTREMELY expensive, almost but not quite prohibitively so because it does an extreme amount of damage. There is a catch to this uber weapon... only elite ships with the heavy duty power supply have enough juice to fire it, and it will sap half to all of your power depending on whose ship you are flying. So, not a weapon you can go all willy nilly on the poor unsuspecting NPCs with, as it does not have a huge blast radius, may very well leave ships far enough away only minorly damaged (those in the blast radius are almost totally charcoal), and the thing leaves you with barely enough power to shoot at anyone for more than a few seconds... ooh, the vulnerability!
Anyway, my question is this: What would be a good explosion effect for this, something big and bright on the boom scale, but not something that is going to leave a mini-star behind forever? I am willing to rewrite whatever file I need to if I have to do so to shorten the lifespan of the effect.
Just looking for opinions and directions to where such a file might be hiding, just waiting for me to pluck it up and make it useful.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
Anyway, I took the nomad torpedo launcher, spcified it as a torpedo HpType (no more mounting it on gun/missle HPs) It is EXTREMELY expensive, almost but not quite prohibitively so because it does an extreme amount of damage. There is a catch to this uber weapon... only elite ships with the heavy duty power supply have enough juice to fire it, and it will sap half to all of your power depending on whose ship you are flying. So, not a weapon you can go all willy nilly on the poor unsuspecting NPCs with, as it does not have a huge blast radius, may very well leave ships far enough away only minorly damaged (those in the blast radius are almost totally charcoal), and the thing leaves you with barely enough power to shoot at anyone for more than a few seconds... ooh, the vulnerability!
Anyway, my question is this: What would be a good explosion effect for this, something big and bright on the boom scale, but not something that is going to leave a mini-star behind forever? I am willing to rewrite whatever file I need to if I have to do so to shorten the lifespan of the effect.
Just looking for opinions and directions to where such a file might be hiding, just waiting for me to pluck it up and make it useful.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
I did like that effect as well, though the scale.... hmmm, how would I go about *gasp* ( I know, I speak heresy) scaling the explosion down? Is that even possible?
