Starbolt Changes...

[captainsnarf]

Here are all the ranges from standard game code (no mods):


A lot of them are not relevant like the FM_ classes and we don't really care about painter and mine layer.

It's mostly 20000 for vehicles. Player weapons like shock rifle is 17000. Goliath's machine gun is the odd ball at 15000.

[YEAAAHHHHHHHHHH]

Side note: Can we increase the range of the ion painters? Those usually end up being a bummer... only a laser to give away your location and no explosion.

[pooty]

I agree on the painter as well, often you have to be so close you just get blasted....not sure why painter says 15000? I think that might be for the actual bombing/explosion vs the targeting.

On the other ranges, I've seen in the vehicles that aren't explicitly defined they inherit the range from their base class which usually is ONSWeapon, ONSDualACGatlingGun, or similar. Handhelds are usually based XWeapon I think.

I wonder if the Goliath's gun was done like that on purpose to allow people on foot to sit far of and not get picked off my the machinegun?

[captainsnarf]

Changing the painter... you are getting into the weeds of weapon mods. Surely there is another available for download? Without actually making a new painter weapon, it might be possible with one of our mutators, e.g. ONSPlusOmni. It replaces the linkgun. We could probably just implement "CheckReplacement()" and if it's painter weapon, set TraceRange to whatever. It might need more than that like culldistance or different emitters though.

[McLovin]

...
Looking at the code with my friend grep
...

Definitely, a valuable skill to master for a lifetime.

Best book I ever bought. Back when we used to buy books that is, LOL

[pooty]

Just use grep, sed and vi for everything...

[captainsnarf]

oh hey, fellow vi user, figures I remember when vim was 1.0. Before that I used elvis. vscode has ripgrep built in which is very nice

[McLovin]

Vim YES! Use it every day. I have Vim running on my phone. We put it on our target to make startup script changes on the flight line.

https://youtu.be/SsoOG6ZeyUI

[Enyo]

Truly grateful for all you guys and your in-depth understanding of nerdbonics!

[captainsnarf]

New version, download here StarboltV2Omni_2.5.zip

Changes
- new emitters for primary fire
- changed the > 4000 distance check in the emitter to be > 20000

hopefully these are easier to see.