List of oddities

Phoenix-D · #1 November 1st, 2003, 10:17 PM

EDIT: wrong thread.

[ November 01, 2003, 21:35: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

Wardad · #2 November 3rd, 2003, 06:02 PM

I was on the campaigns protect pirate base mission.

Pirate Space Station fired on me after recovering illegal item. Stopped firing after ejecting item.

I can understand the TCN starbase firing on me for illegal cargo. But, not the pirates.
It must be a copy the program code thing.

Phoenix-D · #3 November 17th, 2003, 02:43 AM

A good oddity, and probably something useful for modders:

"Planet" is a valid target type. Nothing else extra seems to work, but this does. So the list for targets includes Ship, Base, Fighter, Satelite, Torpedo, and Planet.

This does NOT let you shoot planets by itself, since they aren't destroyables. But it would let you do that with a little modding..

Taz-in-Space · #4 November 17th, 2003, 04:45 AM

...Taz reads the previous post and immediately has daydreams of destroying WHOLE WORLDS!

It's one of those 'little things' in life that keeps a Taz happy!!

P.S. Now if we could only destroy a star...

[ November 17, 2003, 02:48: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

Phoenix-D · #5 November 17th, 2003, 05:10 AM

You could do that to. Just give it a target type of planet.

It is odd though; giving something in the purchaseship enemy file an asteroid for a model works fine. Giving it a model of a planet crashes the game..

Taz-in-Space · #6 November 17th, 2003, 05:31 AM

Hmmm, something about how the program handles textures? Try something else graphically simple - like a sun?...

Phoenix-D · #7 November 17th, 2003, 05:38 AM

Found the problem. Override textures don't work for ships, and there WAS no default texture for that .x file. Making one fixed the issue.

What this means, is you need a seperate .x file and texture for each killable planet. Not a big deal, since you don't want too many of them- each will have its own AI, and lots of them will slow the game down.