posted 11-09- 02:40 PM               

But then I started thinking, maybe it does this already? I'm not at home now, but would that work? If I have a gun in the .sm and define most of the gunInit properties there, will the ones in the ppf be "added" to it? Or will they replace them outright?

posted 11-10- 10:52 AM               

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Originally posted by ArgonV:
Believe it or not most ground units with any type of gun, work this way. They have all the gun properties defined within the SM file itself. Any value in the ppf file (If there is one) over rides the SM file value.

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Well sheesh! In that case the loadouts are about to get a crapload simpler. Jeeves, you reading this?

posted 11-10- 01:00 PM               

I think the highest number "wins" on the explosive strength tho. Seems like when I was working on the dam buster bomb, I had to adjust both the .sm and the .ppf to actually decrease the weapon's "yield."

Not sure how the new patch treats this tho.

posted 11-11- 03:59 PM               

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Originally posted by jedi:
I think the highest number "wins" on the explosive strength tho. Seems like when I was working on the dam buster bomb, I had to adjust both the .sm and the .ppf to actually decrease the weapon's "yield."

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Well I'm interested in the guns actually. I want to introduce new numbers to make the drag system work, but that would require all of the planes to be modified. In reality there's only maybe 10 guns in the entire game, so it seems odd that we have to do it this way. But if the guns can be in a weapons .sm file somewhere I can define these numbers there, and then people can just import the model into their file.

I can't get to the OPS page to download OPS, so I don't have it on this new machine. I'd like to play with this.

I have a new guy getting into the game now, he's a co-worker who's really into 3D modelling. He's mostly into tanks, but I have him excited about this game. Maybe we should start with making a bunch of gun models?

Hmmm, what about the flexible guns? I assume it's just a DOF attached to the model right? Can this be done if the model is an external reference? IE, can I load up an external part and then add a DOF to it?