Armor Regeneration Question
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">About this ability:

If this ability is given to a Component, or to all Components, with a Value1 of zero, will those Components, no matter how damaged, be fully repaired after battle?

If a whole ship was made out of this stuff, would complete destruction be the only way to actually stop it?

Re: Armor Regeneration Question
 

An ability amount of zero will not make it regenerate at all... you need an amount of one or more.

But other than that, yes.

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So with a Value1 of zero they will not regenerate during combat, but will components with this Ability destroyed in combat restore themselves afterward?

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Only damage points can regenerate - destroyed components can only be replaced by Repair Modules or Space Yards.

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"Only damage points can regenerate - destroyed components can only be replaced by Repair Modules or Space Yards"

This is incorrect. Organic Armor will regenerate between combats; the blown off sections come back. (does the same thing IN combat too, just more slowly)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Even if Value1 is zero?

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If there is -another- component intact with Value 1 greater than 0, yes. If all the components have a value of 0..I'd have to test that.

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one intact component would be necessary to keep the entire ship from being destroyed.

And one component with a Value1 greater than zero in the ship design would be acceptable. But we couldn ot be certian that component would be the Last one busted. If all the Value1=0 compnents regenerate... well that's exactly what I would be looking for.

[ June 25, 2003, 20:02: Message edited by: Loser ]

Re: Armor Regeneration Question
 

They do not all have to be "armor" componenents, you know.

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Hmm sounds like something useful for Monst--

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Re: Armor Regeneration Question
 

hmm... while we are on the subject, can one set the Regen value to something negative, and have a component damage itself between combat? Then we could make unstable components and stuff.

Re: Armor Regeneration Question
 

Negative numbers tend to wrap around to insanely large. (~64k)

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But would it work? Like for LR mod I want to make a Reactor that is very potent, but highly unstable and is breaking up from the moment you build it.

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No, -1 would be changed to a few hundred above 64,000 regen points.

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Lmao. And you know how afterburners give combat movement? If i set that ability to negative would it still go all flippy outty?

Re: Armor Regeneration Question
 

Sounds like the string parser that read the text files properly interprets the negative numbers, and stores them in an appropriate twos-complement format. Then the game takes the twos-complement negative number, and treats it like an unsigned integer. Negative one would become 65,535.

Of course, anyone reading this who understands the term "two-complement" also already knew what was happening and had no need for my explanation. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif Sorry.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's what I'm thinking, man.