ships fireing without wepons

Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:36 pm by sabreman

I was thinking...
You know how wepons have a hard point from which they fire, could it be possible to put these hardpoints on a ship and put the wepon entry into shiprach so the ship can fire without any wepons mounted?

I was gonna test this theary out but didn't want to mess up my freinds save.

Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:00 pm by Zyos

Hmmm, well, a HpWeapon hardpoint is the only thing u can mount a weapon onto, so having a weapon without a hardpoint being on it is impossible afaik, mounting a weapon onto any other form of hardpoint would be silly as for example, other hardpoints such as thruster, would fire only 1 way and would'nt revolve with aim.

So I'm more or less saying no to this one..

Edited by - Zyos on 12/13/2006 3:16:51 AM

Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:57 pm by hotwire

put ur hardpoint inside the ship....nuff said

and then laugh at what happens

Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:33 am by cheese on toast

hotwire ^^ if you put your guns inside the ship nothing will happen, should just fire normally (im stabbing in the dark b/w taking it off post experiences), the SUR wont register its hit. I say this because we have managed to merge 2 ships in vanilla FL unmodded on a server and it looks weird as hell ^^

Cheese On Toast:
Like the name
Beware the player

Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:42 am by hotwire

hmmm when i tried it it blew myself up

Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:01 am by sabreman

no i mean when you open a wepon cmp the wepon only has two hard points: HpConnect and another one from which it fires. so what if you took that hard point and put it on a ship and then placed a wepon entery in to its ship arch file.

Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:57 am by Gibbon

*cough* you guys bothered to look at the nomad weapons? They don't have mat textures which makes them invisible, so looks like the weapon is firing internally

Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:32 pm by sabreman

yes i know. not to sound rude but I don't think i explained my idia correctlly.

What i want is for the ship to beable to fire without any wepons mounted. for example: you by a dager and lanch with no wepons but when you press the fire key it still fires.

I am going to try this this saturday to see if it works cause i don't think i can place what i whant into words.

Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:42 pm by Chips

Remove any weapons mounts from the shiparch.ini and then make sure weapons are mounted on said mounts in the goods.ini package for the ship.

Voila - buy the ship and launch. You can't see your guns in the hold etc, but outside you can "turn them on/off" as per usual with the numbers and still fire too.

Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:31 am by hotwire

is that what you do to get rid of Bships exchanging weapons?

Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:10 pm by sabreman

I gess that idia is dead. but how do you make weapons un unmountable.

Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:19 pm by Chips

I gess that idia is dead. but how do you make weapons un unmountable.

I guess you didn't read then mate.

As for battleships not transferring weapons - yes, same method.
As for making guns unmountable... yes, same method.

Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:34 pm by sabreman

Oh yah. thanks.

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