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Rebellion Modding

What would you like to do?

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A list of some things I'd like to see for modding so that the devs can tell me I have my head in the clouds:

Different 'armor' types for shields and hull.

Ability to define some currently harcoded elements such as armortypes and other elements.

numArmorTypes 1

ArmorType "Light"

MaxShipLevel 10

MaxAbilityLevel 3

MaxWeaponBanks 3

etc.

Ability to define firing angles (And stats?) for each weapon point.

Make it so Boolean modifiers can be based on ability/research level instead of just "yes/no"

Make it so research and abilities can have a manual 'target' list by entity file names as well as gravity well types, etc.

    targetFilter
        numOwnerships 1
        ownership "Friendly"
        numObjects 0
        numSpaces 1
        space "Normal"
        numConstraints 0
        numGravWellTypes 2
        gravwelltype "Planet"
        gravwelltype "Asteroid"
        numManualEntity 1
        entity "CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP"

Make it so that each spawnable entity can have a max spawned limit.

Make it so that the number of a certain strikecraft type a ship can have can be limited.

Give each movable entity a 'canPhaseJump TRUE/FALSE' flag along with corresponding research/buff to change.

Make it so buff types and research are more versatile. Example: Instead of 'StealAntimatter', just 'Steal' and definable of what to steal.

Give each ability and research a 'ShareWithAlly TRUE/FALSE' flag as well as a corresponding research/buff to change.

Make it so research/abilties/bufftypes can have other prerequisites such as 'x of a certain entity' or 'hasPeaceTreaty with this player'

Make many, many more variable get research/bufftypes. Cost to buy capital ship level, etc.

 

Anybody else?

 

:fox:

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Reply #51 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Volt_Cruelerz, reply 50
Oh yes there is.  I've done it.  It's a rather complex buff, but I've done it.

Before I go about taking a stab at this, may I have permission to use parts of the Grey Goo in order to get this ability coded? You of course will be credited accordingly.

Reply #52 from Sins Forums Top

Sure  :thumbsup:

 

The ability infects only those ships whose shields are down.  It spreads to other ships without shields.  When the ship dies, it spreads to ships in a larger radius, regardless of whether or not they have shields and it also spawns a nano cloud (but since I fail at importing models, I just used the TEC missile turret).

With a buff that overly complex, I figured a little explanation might help lol.

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Reply #53 from Sins Forums Top

So I noticed, it's one heck of an ability that's for sure.

Main bit is the shields down part; in a nutshell I'm hoping to work that into a passive ability that's linked to Ion an weapontype that fires, and after some complex thing that checks if shields are down, applies a buff.

Reply #54 from Sins Forums Top

Probably what you'll want to do is on BuffGreyGooTarget, replace the BuffGreyGoo on the ABTS with your buff.  IIRC, you'll need BuffGreyGooShield, BuffGreyGooTarget, BuffGreyGooImmunity, and your buff, but I haven't looked at it in a while, so I may be mistaken.  Look for the Darkness Mod.  That's what I made it for and there's a detailed explanation of the files in there.

Reply #55 from Sins Forums Top

Found something else that would be nice. Order delay. So that once an order is given, it can take more or less time for a unit to actually follow that order. This would be IMMENSILY helpful for some of the stuff I'm modding in, as well as be good for a jamming ability.

Reply #56 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting the50first, reply 55
Found something else that would be nice. Order delay. So that once an order is given, it can take more or less time for a unit to actually follow that order. This would be IMMENSILY helpful for some of the stuff I'm modding in, as well as be good for a jamming ability.

You're looking for the instantActionTriggerType "OnDelay". Link.