hmmm, just captured ship with Fusion Torpedoes, handed to scientists ... got the tech ... as soon as I go to Tech Tree and click on AM Torpedoes (as this got unlocked for me due to having access to Fusion Torpedoes now) the game throws error at me ... something something Weaponinfo.lua something nil...

took me a bit to realize what is going on when I supposedly unlocked "Plasma Torpedoes" from defeating certain Harpy unit and nothing was showing up in tech tree ... then I realized Orthin have no access to torpedoes at all ... technically they do not have access to ships with Torpedo hard...

sven wrote:So, um, yes, that code is definitely buggy. I'll push an official fix in the next patch

no worries, Sven, you guys are doing great job and we are here all together to make this game the best of them all

How did shield absorption work in MOO2? first X amount of damage for each weapon hitting shields was ignored ... so absorption of 2 (for example) and firing at that shield with a weapon of damage range 3-8 actually made that weapon 1-6 effectively I like it, because it promotes quality over quantit...

sooo, I removed this function from WEAPONS.lua and added a bit of a code (in shipdamage.lua or what ever the name of the file is) that if shield_piercing_level is nil, it is set to 0 function WeaponProperty.shield_piercing_level(w) if not w:special 'Shield Piercing' return 0 end return 1 end now thi...

I like this one ... now I am wondering, if you have the time and it is something you like to implement as well

I always liked the way how MOO 2 had shield absorption implemented, I wanted to look into it a year ago for SiS, and I want to look into it now, I just don't have that much time

Not exactly... The property values can be overwritten by values defined in the weapon or the weapon's weapon info table. So, for example, if we're evaluating the shield_piercing_level of a Force Lance, we should always return 2 (because that's the value defined in the Force Lance entry in WEAPONS.l...

hi Sven, this should be what is in current build code (I am at work and only have a copy of Lua State folder, it is about a week old, so latest released build, I think) define_weapon "Force Lance" { tier=3, sound_fun = "FORCE_LANCE", type = "kinetic", power_mult=3, draw...

Out of curiosity, what were you trying before? function WeaponProperty.shield_piercing_level(w) if not w:special 'Shield Piercing' return 0 end if w.shield_piercing_level>1 return w.shield_piercing_level else return 1 end end just tested it, it seems my "ugly hack" is still needed for For...

hey everyone, back to the game after about a year ... I was quickly checking a few things, this (shield piercing) seems to be unchanged unless it is now handled differently in the code ?

*** FOR LATEST FILES CHECK THIS POST *** it should now work in Mod folder just fine, also cleaned up PopIcons.lua so that it contains only the function I added any issue, please let me know if you want just empty slots showing (and not fancy icons for population), you only need @PlanetListPane.lua f...

if anyone wants to change animation duration for "Stellar Surge Beam" , look inside Drawers\Effects\ beam_animation.lua just comment out time_scale=.15 , you may want to change glow_w (.65 should work fine), also you may want to change sound_fun = 'STELLAR_SURGE_BEAM' in WEAPONS.lua as the...

just curious (I didn't have a chance to try it myself), how these changes turned out ?

I think I fixed the issue with re-docking, please re-download if you have earlier version

thanks, yeah going global would be the way to go, I don't need that info on design screen that much, it was there mainly to make sure my function altering fighter health is doing something

I'll resort to global functions for some more serious stuff