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Lafiel Wow i knew ABH mod was one of the most important and old ones, but i had no idea of the extension of its innovations! Amazing mod =D

i think the first thing i created before any other mods was
■ a working roof turret with projectiles actually going threw the ship (kroom found the way to show the projectile above the ship first).
■ projectiles that changes their behavior during flight. (and one with multiple stages).
■ a hook gun to stuck your ship into anoth one.
■ PD mines and regular mines (no, abh mines behave like missiles).(tho i don't know if your flares trully behave like the pd mines i made :/)
■ teleporting projectile (warp missiles).
■ under the ship fighter missile launcher.
■ armor with multiple layers
■ one shot suicide weapon.
■ a cannon draining missiles and ammo (yeah easy to do but i don't recall seeing anyone do it).
■ saw blade launcher
■ space shotgun
■ a weapon that shoot a projectile that divide itself each time it hit a shield.
■ EMP suicide bomb. (regular suicide bomb?). close range bomb to smash on the ennemy. detonate itself or on command.
■ impulse block. (currently the detach bombs. tho the 'detaching' feature to use for fighters was already made for other mods, i was the first including it for the AI to use in bounty hunter mode.)
■ drill missile (penetrate and detonate. tho i am not sure about this one. maybe there was already one in abh or starwars).
■ stargate related mod
■ a missile launcher put in a big cannon frame. :3
and i am not sure about this one (maybe there was one in abh) but a big weapon with different animation stage depending if the gun was ready to fire or not. (no, not just a simple ammo loaded in the barrel or a red light poping up).
burst weapon, unloading all their amo really quick in a short span of time. maybe?

Not as many as you but i am still proud of having made unique stuff before anyone else :3

btw i wonder how your acid pray gun works. is it a constant beam or does it really fire a projectile that deal constant damage other time to the part it touched? (or does it just hit multiple times the same area in space where it hitted the ship for the firt time ? :/)

akinata Nice going.
Truth to be told you were lucky to join and create when those features (already requested by the rest of us) came to be supported. I'm pretty sure I have all of those covered at least on the planned side if not already as part.

• my fleet ballistic missile had multistages (see bitmap-animation code) it just didn't work at the time. (since 0.4.8)
• I'm not sure what you mean by PD mine but the flex anti-missiles are actually mines from a technical point of view of destructive force (targeting uses something else) (since 0.4.7)
• NERA armor is also technically multi layer armor via falling off/shading off & selfreplacing (since 0.4.7) Dunno the difference to yours
• Abh has multiple draining weapons among which "energy mine cannon" and "gravity mine" are closes to your criteria (since 0.4.6)
• impulse block = repulsor ? (since 0.4.6)

I think Meramera had the missile turret cannon first. She also had burst first unless you count multibarrel.

You mean the "deadly_ash_dispenser" it's a slow damaging homing bullet. Homing is require so that it sticks. It doesn't do that well because of the game physics. No area effect is involved. Ship and bullet move so it gives the impression of area effect. Technically the same as your saw cutting. (since 0.4.9)
Area effect is done by those shield-wave/wave weapons (isokinetic/kinectic) slowly progressing through the ship. Again game physics doesn't support it. (since 0.4.6)

Keep it up and coming akinata!

Lafiel
thank you

■ by PD mines i mean lots of little ball of light that slow down after being shot until completly stopping any movement and just lay there like a mine field for some time. at first i wanted to create the galactica light cannons that were doing an anti missile/fighter barrage in the battlestar galactica series but it is not possible to damage multiple missile in an aoe. so i had to make something as close as it, thus creating the mine PD (i called it SEMPD).

■ yes merranera did an ion missile on a modified medium cannon frame. but mine was on the big cannon frame. it was just the vanilla big cannon with its barrel replaced by one vanilla missile tube and it was required to be aimed at the target :3

■ yes the layered armor replace itself for a fixed number of time before getting finally destroyed. didn't knew you made one.

■ i don't recall meranera having created any burst weapons when i first created the burster. i remember doing it because i coulnd't see any similar weapon at that time. her spitfire were not made yet.

■ the impulse block (detach bomb) are just self destructing blocks with an impulse. so you can either use them to attach fighters to a carrier or as a temporary thrust for small ships (tho that last part was a bit unpractical)

i wonder if there is a big fixed super weapon that is not an ion beam in abh ? (sort of giant artillery cannon shooting forward)

btw what is the alt code for the big round version of ■ ? all i have found is the code for the little one •

Lafiel
█ █ .. alt + 219 give me this XD . i ll stick with the squares then.

i did not made it op since you can storage only one complete missile + the one in the tube. (no stacking missile part onto one another.).
tho it led to one problem that i hope, or walt or someone else to definitively fix : (vanilla suffer from this problem too)
when a weapon using storage have its barrel charged but don't have any ammo in the storage the crew just stop firing and go seek for more ammo when they could fire one more time before doing so. With the new toggle there is 2 mode: All and Any. if you add the loadedammo in the part toggle and you put Mode = All then it would require both 3 (crew, ammostorage AND loadedammo to be ready for the part to work). If you put Mode = Any you could activate the part just by putting some ammo in the ammostorage which would be wierd. also the crew may never leave the part ever again since it woul be permanently On without ammo.
the Best would be a Mode that needs only a number of the needed component to be ready instead of All or Any.
But then would the gun reload itself without the crew? i ll leave the interrogation here. i ll look more into it when i ll upload a compatible version for 0.14.0 of my mod.

Lafiel
i havn't tested it yet but i think i found a solution.

	IsOperational
	{
		Type = MultiToggle
		Toggles
		[
			Toggletest
			Toggletest2
		]
		Mode = Any
	}
	Toggletest
	{
		Type = MultiToggle
		Toggles
		[
			PowerToggle
			PartCrew
			AmmoStorage
		]
		Mode = All
	}
	Toggletest2
	{
		Type = MultiToggle
		Toggles
		[
			PowerToggle
			PartCrew
			LoadedAmmo
		]
		Mode = All
	}

and then you get rid of AmmoDesireToggle = PowerToggle in the AmmoStorage.

so then everything will work with either the AmmoStorage or the LoadedAmmo.
@Walt
(this might be a solution to force the crew to fire that last loaded round before seeking to replenish the ammo storage instead of just look for more ammo when they could fire one more time.)

EDIT: it is not working like intending. i am testing now

	IsOperational
	{
		Type = MultiToggle
		Toggles
		[
			Toggletest
			PowerToggle
			PartCrew
		]
		Mode = All
	}
	Toggletest
	{
		Type = MultiToggle
		Toggles
		[
			LoadedAmmo
			AmmoStorage
		]
		Mode = Any

Walt yes i thought of that after testing the not working fisrt code. thanks anyway : )
EDIT : ah i didn't thought about the part crew PrerequisitesBeforeCrewing requirements.. that was the problem .