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Posted: **30 Dec 2008, 23:38**

Pardon me for asking something that has been answered a zillion times, but what is the correct way to fix the laser textures?

Posted: **30 Dec 2008, 23:45**

Sorry if it has said already a zillion times, but speak in whole sentences. Ppl can't read your mind...

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 00:02**

Forboding Angel wrote:Pardon me for asking something that has been answered a zillion times, but what is the correct way to fix the laser textures?

They work fine, why fix them?

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 00:13**

what is broken? if you have that little | at the front then set a non existent texture for the tip

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 00:19**

My bet on: "Use image sizes that are power of 2."

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 07:34**

Ahh so they must be an exact size now instead of like 100x153 it would need ot be 100x154 or 100x152?

Thanks Zwzsg.

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 07:35**

Not divisible by 2, power-of two. As in, 64 X 128

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 07:47**

2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
I hope you really don't need to go to 1024 for a laser texture.

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 09:37**

Ack, thanks argh and snipa, would have helped a bit if I read into the actual wording of what zwzsg said. Woe is me, ./wrist to forehead, and all that good stuff lol.

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 10:19**

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    texture1           = "megaparticle",
    texture2           = "empty",
    texture3           = "empty",
    texture4           = "empty",

Nothing has worked so far. And it has nothing to do with being divisible by powers of 2. Is the above no longer an accepted format for defining laser textures?

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 10:24**

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    texture1           = "megaparticle",
    texture2           = "",
    texture3           = "",
    texture4           = "",

Should work. Dunno, I do that with TDF, and just put "foo" as the string, where "foo" is not a real texture named in Resources.tdf.

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 10:34**

well I already have an empty=empty.tga; in resources.tdf

I really dunno what's going on here.

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 11:27**

Does empty.tga actually exist? I usually pointed my stuff to "foo", where "foo" does not exist, and is not named in Resources.

If it does... maybe it's not formatted correctly, etc. Use a 8X8 pixel TGA, IIRC, 2 and 4-pixel ones don't seem to actually work right.

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 12:05**

hmm that could be it, it's a 2x2, I'll try that.

Edit: Nope no joy. I tried everything I could think of. Removed the empty=empty.tga; entry from resources too and got the exact same results.

Unfortunately I can't find the link to the changelog cause the answer is probably there :-/

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 12:48**

This is a screenie of the largest laser, it should be omgwtfbbq large. Also, it comes from the sky (5k up to be exact) and the texture is oriented incorrectly.

: screen000.jpg (200.47 KiB) Viewed 2010 times

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 14:40**

Waaaaaaaaaait... Those are multiple billboarded sprites! Forb, that's not a laser, that's a cannon.

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 20:15**

KDR_11k wrote:Forb, that's not a laser, that's a cannon.

Flip the 'b' around and you have HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 21:01**

KDR_11k wrote:Waaaaaaaaaait... Those are multiple billboarded sprites! Forb, that's not a laser, that's a cannon.

Can you put that into english for me?

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local weaponDefs = {
  deathray = {
    areaOfEffect       = 500,
    avoidFeature       = false,
    avoidFriendly      = false,
    beamWeapon         = true,
    cegTag             = "electricbolt",
    collideFeature     = false,
    collideFriendly    = false,
    commandfire        = true,
    coreThickness      = 3,
    duration           = 0.5,
    energypershot      = 250000,
    explosionGenerator = "custom:NUKE",
    fallOffRate        = 0.1,
    fireStarter        = 90,
    guidance           = true,
    id                 = 666,
    impluse            = "1",
    interceptedByShieldType = 1,
    largeBeamLaser     = true,
    lineOfSight        = true,
    metalpershot       = 0,
    name               = "Doom Laser",
    range              = 200000,
    reloadtime         = 180,
    renderType         = 0,
    rgbColor           = "1 0.5 0",
    rgbColor2          = "0 0 1",
    soundHit           = "18402_inferno_xplo.wav",
    soundStart         = "doomlaser2.wav",
    startVelocity      = 5000,
    sweep              = "1",
    sweepfire          = true,
    targetMoveError    = 0,
    texture1           = "megaparticle",
    texture2           = "empty",
    texture3           = "empty",
    texture4           = "empty",
    thickness          = 120,
    tolerance          = 50000,
    turret             = true,
    weaponVelocity     = 5000,
    damage = {
      default            = 25000,
    },
  },
}
unitDef.weaponDefs = weaponDefs


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return lowerkeys({ [unitName] = unitDef })

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Looks like a laser to me... Am I missing something?

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 21:22**

Maybe some nonsense with that rendertype tag. I just use weaponType on everything (would be weaponType="LaserCannon", here).

BTW, "impluse" is misspelt

Posted: **31 Dec 2008, 23:29**

Yes, use weaponType, always. Much cleaner.

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