Shield Mod

mountnjockey

Hi all,

Does anyone here have some starting ideas as to how I might begin designing a mod that changes the damage resistance values of the shields, any input would be super appreciated. I am doing this for a friend as a small challenge and I do wish to complete it. Thanks for any help and support, it is greatly appreciated.

IVIemories

mountnjockey Pretty sure shield damage is tied to the weapons, not the shield itself.

WillieSea

I have not looked into modification of shields yet, but I will be.

So, that said, my only suggestion would be to look in the game folder.
\Cosmoteer\Data\Ships\Terran\shield_generator\
In that folder is the shield graphics and data. The data about the shield is contained in the text file called:
shield_generator.txt

Its my guess that how the shield works is contained in variables inside the text file.

Coldarray

Damage resistence? if you mean how much shielding you get per point of energy that's actually really easy. here,

	ArcShield
	{
		Type = ArcShield
		Radius = 7.5
		Arc = 90d
		DrainAmmoFrom = BatteryStorage
		AmmoDrainPerDamage = .5
		Rotation = -90d
		Location = [1, 1.5]

"AmmoDrainPerDamage = .5" is what you want, Basicly the standard amount is 2 "shield hp" per energy point. If you change it to say .25 then it'd be 4 points or instead of the normal shield having (6k energy = 12k shield) would have (6k energy = 24k shield).

mountnjockey

So how would I go about coding this into a mod? Would I just copy the whole 'Arcshield' class and change just the one value or what? I'm sorry for all the questions I am fairly new to this.

WillieSea

mountnjockey Pinned topic at top of forum, has link to wiki on how to create your own mods.
https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/334-how-to-create-and-share-mods

Coldarray

oh what I posted is simply the standard shield code, I'm fairly sure its the "AmmoDrainPerDamage" value that you want to modify as I explained. Using the .25 or 12k to 24k shield buff example again it'd look like this,

ArcShield
{
	Type = ArcShield
	Radius = 7.5
	Arc = 90d
	DrainAmmoFrom = BatteryStorage
	AmmoDrainPerDamage = .25
	Rotation = -90d
	Location = [1, 1.5]

So yeah if that's what you want you could just put this in there I suppose. Assuming you simply want a buffed up standard shield and what not.

WillieSea

Coldarray Do you know if there is a setting to push the actual shield further away from the generator?

Coldarray

Well there's two ways to go about it, you can either up the Radius amount (which makes the overall shield larger) or you can simply change its location.

You might want to get rid of the um Turret(?) collider part if I recall. As its an actual object with physics and can cause you some problems when changing the shields like this.

Iv been focused on making weapons for a bit now so I forgot some of the finer details of my shield troubleshooting from when I was working on my own modded version but yeah. That turret part can actually hit stuff lol. Especially if you do something like I did with my shields.

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WillieSea

Coldarray In regards to weapons, is it possible to make a weapon not need shells or energy, but still have a firing delay between shots?

Coldarray

Actually I think

	EmitterCollider
	{
		Type = CircleCollider
		ChainedTo = ArcShield
		Location = [.2, 0]
		Radius = 1
		Density = .1
	}

Is the trouble maker I was referring too, sorry having trouble remembering atm.

Coldarray

hmm, idk about the not needing ammo part but there are things like "FireInterval" / "FireDelay" and on the ammo side "DelayBeforeReadyToUse" That can help set up the fire rate you want.

Actually if I wanted to make an ammoless gun I think I would just make it use like 0.001 ammo per shot so one battery would power it almost indefinitely.

WillieSea

Coldarray Awesome, thanks!

I was going to make an unusual weapon, very highly advanced for my Ancients mod. It has the 'ammo manufacture' as part of the weapon, rather than being separate. Supplying energy would be okay though. But its a lot of work making the first texture, let alone the animations.
I do have the exterior ship textures done, and the new dragon scale armor textures done.

Coldarray

Oh I almost forgot

		StartingAmmo = 0

Is a code from the power storage part that might help.

WillieSea

That might do it, perhaps this weekend I will get the gun semi-working.

Here is the initial design, with the outside texture and the dragon scale armor on the edges.
image https://i.imgur.com/gpRohuL.png