The Mechcommander (1) mechs are sprites as well, abet with much much much more animation than ToS. No reason you can't render a 3d unit as a sprite, though.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: DamoclesX<br/>
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build an excel document<br/>
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That works..if you're doing a TC. If you want to use the original ships it still doesn't help because you don't have that set of data. <E>:(</E><br/>
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I do have to ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: John DiCamillo<br/>
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Hi Phoenix-D,<br/>
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I'm curious what games you are using that are significantly easier to mod than Starshatter. What's an example of extra complexity that you feel was not justified by the game design?<br/>
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Thanks,
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<t> WWII Online didn't get a bad review because it was a niche game; it got a bad review because at launch it was a bug-ridden, damn near unplayable mess.<br/>
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Going by the demo I'd give Starshatter about a 60%, myself. Keep in mind that I weigh the modding ability heavily and for me ...

<r> Found some info on the old forum..unfortunately it was bad news.<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>It was way too hard to balance system level PCS settings. So I removed them, and consolidated them into a single PCS rating for the entire ship. This is defined at the ship level (i.e. not in any system ...

Thanks, though I have to wonder where you people find these things, heh. Maybe there's more information on the old forum, because my searches here aren't giving me much use.

Or is that what SSD is? I keep hearing about it but every time I try to access it the site is down.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Pheagey<br/>
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yea. the sensor subsystem in the ship.def . Active / passive and ranges.
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Right, that's the subsystem I was messing with. However..the mod SDK shows only one variable, the range, and it seems that variable just ...

Is there any way to set this? From the various modding sites I've found the sensor PCS setting, but that only seems to affect others detecting you, not vice versa.

If you're looking for another modeler, it might be worthwhile to look at Wings3d first. Its free, and pretty capable.

<r> <LINK link="http://www.matrixgames.com/default.asp?URL=http%3A//www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp%3Fm%3D668419%26mpage%3D1%26key%3D%26%23668419"><s>[link=http://www.matrixgames.com/default.asp?URL=http%3A//www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp%3Fm%3D668419%26mpage%3D1%26key%3D%26%23668419]</s>noob ...

<t> I think the Freespace files *were* encrypted. They were broken anyway, though not the entire code. That was released seperately.<br/>
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Part of the problem is there's a lot of incentive to bust into the main .dat file even for non cheaters. Its much easier to mod if you don't have to build ...

<t> Back to the original question: from messing around it seems that drones and missiles work identically, except they have a different target type for point defense and drones get the brackets and a range indicator on the shot. Am I right?<br/>
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If so now i just have to figure out how to do ...

<t> Pretty much what I expected. You have to do some checking, after all if player A has version 1 of a mod and player B has version 2, you might get situations like this:<br/>
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Player A's laser does 100 damage<br/>
Player B's laser does 120 damage<br/>
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Or, if the damage is checked ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: TexMurphy<br/>
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The reason this pisses me is that it opens up multiplayer gaming for mad cheating.<br/>
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My Wing Commander mod is beeing ballanced for multiplayer and alot of mp scenarios will be built. BUT there is no way Im gonna spend effort into ...

I'm only getting the Manual mode when I'm flying a fighter.

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(by the way, pressing 'M' twice brings you to manual, no need to go to engineering).

Pressing M twice in a cap ship just takes you back to Helm Online mode..

<t> I'm not sure if this is a bug or intentional, but I sure found it useful. If you're commanding a starship directly and want to emulate the FCLS Manual mode that fighters have, go to the engineering screen and turn off your thrusters. You can still turn, but all course corrections will now depend ...

<t> The fact that I can't get at the base files is really making me hesitate about buying SS. I don't mind not being able to export the models, etc but having the make an entirely new ship, model and all, just to change very minor things annoys me. <br/>
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Does the full game at least provide ...

ORIGINAL: TheDeadlyShoe

Coffee, pheagey. Coffee.

@ AA: Wow! That sucks. No 'net cafes in your area?

How many net cafes have CD burners or something else that can transfer a ~500 meg file? Not many, I'd bet.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Pheagey<br/>
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(spock eye brow lift) interesting.<br/>
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Phoenix-D: would u mind writing a tutorial on how to get loadouts onto starships? You know for SSDv3 when its done.
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Whatever SSDv3 is, heh.<br/>
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Anyway ...