Spring RTS Engine

When making a plasma weapon, what are the best choices for rendertypes and such? Should i use 0 to make it a beam weapon and adjust from there, or can I use 3 and add a custom texture?

Also, is there somewhere I could find a completely up to date list of weapons tdf tags? I don't see largebeamlaser=1 and all the other new stuff in the wiki.

the changelog

largebeamlaser stuff is at http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/BeamLaser
..but yes, the wiki is becoming more outdated as people maek patch

for a plasma weapon, you want rendertype=4; and ballistic=1;

Ok, if I've got a custom texture to use for a beam weapon [masquerading as a line of sight plasma weapon], what is the best format for the texture file? I tried using a 32-bit RLE tga, and it didn't work...

Ok, that was because I forgot the resource.tdf file.

However, the effect is borked...

Alright, null out

texture2=null; (or anything, as long as it isn't an actual texture)
texture3=null;
texture4=null;

Make sure every texture you don't use (up to 4) is nulled out, due to things like that.

Snipawolf wrote:Alright, null out

texture2=null; (or anything, as long as it isn't an actual texture)
texture3=null;
texture4=null;

Make sure every texture you don't use (up to 4) is nulled out, due to things like that.

Meh...I thought beam weapon only needed nulling of texture 2.

Mmmkay, but if I want to make the corona smaller, does core thickness apply to my texture?

largebeamlasers need that

rattle wrote:largebeamlasers need that

K, ty.

Grr....

largebeamlasers didn't change anything, nor did it fix the overall problem.



FUGLY! I nulled all textures besides texture1

Dammit, and my CEG explosion is all borked now too. It's all squared and aliased [like kernel panic style], and the particles are all messed...

First, you should clarify what you mean by 'plasma' as a plasma weapon as generally understood by modders means the ballistic projectile that follows an arc shot by stumpies and used in emg's.

What you're using is a beamweapon.

Where did you get the texture from? Is it perfectly square, with equal proportions (If it wasnt, i can imagine it might add a large white area to the missing part of the texture)?

Saktoth wrote:First, you should clarify what you mean by 'plasma' as a plasma weapon as generally understood by modders means the ballistic projectile that follows an arc shot by stumpies and used in emg's.

What you're using is a beamweapon.

Where did you get the texture from? Is it perfectly square, with equal proportions (If it wasnt, i can imagine it might add a large white area to the missing part of the texture)?

Hey, sorry I meant plasma as a part of mod marchitecture...err forget that...*cough*

My texture isn't square, but I don't believe it needs to be... I've taken a look at several beamweapon projectile textures, and none of them are square, but work fine.

Nevermind, I fixed the projectile texture. Vertical height must be a power of two, or else artifacts may appear [I mean go figure, the map system works this way too XD].

Thought it would be something like that, yeah.

Actually, I don't think that's it after more testing...oh well something was wrong with the dimensions.

Either way graphics cards don't like texture sizes that aren't powers of two.

That artifact on the end is caused by the texture2. I have no idea how to get rid of it, using a nonsense filename doesn't seem to work anymore.

KDR_11k wrote:That artifact on the end is caused by the texture2. I have no idea how to get rid of it, using a nonsense filename doesn't seem to work anymore.

O__o

I meant that largebeamlasers need those tags, not that you need to use largebeamlasers.

I dont think thats texture 2. Looks to me like its 1 and 2, as 1 is the blue and 2 is the white, yes?