Could you upload a screen shot of the model in the developer.exe while the "show meshpoints" option is on (ctrl+shift+., c, z).

there are weapon hardpoints on all sides, 4 back 4 front 4 left 4 right for weapon 1 and

2 back 2 front 2 right 2 left for weapon 2.

both weapons only shoot forwards.

In the Dev Entitiy info (q) show weapon states

TargetCountPerBank:FRONT 1
TargetCountPerBank:BACK 0
TargetCountPerBank:LEFT 0
TargetCountPerBank:RIGHT 0

shows up, Even when the file says

TargetCountPerBank:FRONT 4
TargetCountPerBank:BACK 4
TargetCountPerBank:LEFT 4
TargetCountPerBank:RIGHT 4

I have reloaded the mod.... my only thought is this is a Code limitation for whatever reason the Defensive structures only fire in one direction, which so far as I know Every current in game turret only fires in 1 direction at 1 target at one time... forward.

Has anyone......  found this issue? or... fix or... um.. anything?

http://www.2shared.com/photo/49WW9Cop/ScreenShot_0.html

using  

TargetCountPerBank:FRONT 5
TargetCountPerBank:BACK 5
TargetCountPerBank:LEFT 5
TargetCountPerBank:RIGHT 5

in the entity...

thats using the TEC starbase and the Advent Starbase (which we know works) and getting the same results..

Front target count 1

back target count 0

left target count 0

right target count 0

again this is a {entityType "PlanetModuleWeaponDefense"}

is the mod enabled AND applied?, the counts suggest that it is using the stock entities.

harpo

yep, disabled all, apply, restarted, enabled, apply ->

seems somebody else found this issue

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/367704

pretty sure its a game Limitation with Diplomacy v1.34 guess I just have to use ability's like "Phase missile swarm" to mimic turrets with multiple ability hard points.... annoying tho

Well the TEC hangar can fire in multiple directions and I think on multiple targets... you might want to try a different type of structure entity.

Genius!

needs - entityType "PlanetModuleHangarDefense"

and

defaultAutoAttackRange "None"
defaultAutoAttackOn TRUE
prefersToFocusFire FALSE

Must be after the weapons, not before them

thanks for the tip

Just want to point out here, it is in fact possible to have a hangar defense module which has weapons in all directions and has multiple targets per bank.

Question is it possible to have shield mitigation go down as it is hit by damage and regen while not?

Yes, the question is just how hard it would be.

The maximum shield mitigation possible is defined in each ship's entity file. Everything else is controlled from the race entity file (its called absorb rate there).

shieldData
    shieldAbsorbGrowthPerDamage 0.001000
    shieldAbsorbDecayRate 0.012500
    shieldAbsorbBaseMin 0.150000
    shieldColor ff0eadff

In theory, if you were to make the minimum higher than the maximum (note that capitalships by default increase their mitigation with levels), and make the growth and decay rates negative, it may act exactly as you want, blocking early attacks and weakening with further damage. I don't know if anyone's tried it before, so the game might have so built in checks, but I give it a fairly good chance of working, and its nice because you can do it on a per race basis.

If this doesn't work you'll needed to set it up as a mechanic that affects everything in the mod. Basically what you'd do is make the Min and Max the same and give every ship an ability that reduces shield mitigation with attack. It works but its a pain to set up, and for capitalships it takes up the unused 5th passive ability slot that you may find more useful for other things.

hmmm, I'm copying and pasting the topic I started by accident in a different thread, it seems like this is the proper place for it

is it invisible, or highly reflective? Can't tell from your screen shots.

Invisible is an issue with the mesh, possibly inverted polygons. 

Do you get any errors on the xsi when you convert it to mesh?

The mesh in Eve has one sided faces in those positions and if you used the TriExporter to get them it will retain them.

You'll have to make those faces in the panels two sided or check to make sure they aren't facing the same way if you did make them two sided..

Oh yeah--the swirl is on purpose--never mind that.

hmmm thanks Sinperium, any advice on how to make them two sided? create a UV map and copy-paste?

Depends on what program you are using--if it's XSI, you can duplicate faces but I am not versed in it.

You need to duplicate the face and then invert the face so the texture shows the other way (reverse the vertex order).

I actually use Milkshape for everything but importing into the game so I am a little limited on help here.

Sketchup can import 3DS models and is free and you can at least see where the faces need to be.  Meshlab will let you reformat the Sketchup free export.

I'd take the time to learn to do it in XSI if you're using that.  I still haven't got the hang of XSI.

Trying to adapt the culture center capturing to only do so temporarily.  For some reason however, it doesn't seem to be working and aside from setting isPermanent to FALSE, idk what else to do..

TXT
entityType "Buff"
onReapplyDuplicateType "PrioritizeNewBuffs"
buffStackingLimitType "ForAllPlayers"
stackingLimit 1
allowFirstSpawnerToStack FALSE
buffExclusivityForAIType "NotExclusive"
isInterruptable FALSE
isChannelling FALSE
numInstantActions 3
instantAction
buffInstantActionType "DoDamage"
instantActionTriggerType "OnDelay"
delayTime 0.000000
damage
Level:0 3500.000000
Level:1 0.000000
Level:2 0.000000
Level:3 0.000000
damageAffectType "AFFECTS_ONLY_HULL"
damageType "ENERGY"
isDamageShared FALSE
instantAction
buffInstantActionType "PlayAttachedEffect"
instantActionTriggerType "OnDelay"
delayTime 0.000000
effectInfo
effectAttachInfo
attachType "Above"
smallEffectName "Buff_DominationOnTarget"
mediumEffectName "Buff_DominationOnTarget"
largeEffectName "Buff_DominationOnTarget"
soundID ""
instantAction
buffInstantActionType "ChangePlayerIndexToFirstSpawner"
instantActionTriggerType "OnDelay"
delayTime 0.000000
isPermanent FALSE
failIfNotEnoughShipSlots FALSE
experiencePercentageToAward 0.000000
numPeriodicActions 0
numOverTimeActions 0
numEntityModifiers 0
numEntityBoolModifiers 0
numFinishConditions 1
finishCondition
finishConditionType "TimeElapsed"
time
Level:0 150.000000
Level:1 10.000000
Level:2 0.000000
Level:3 0.000000

Instant actions are only applied once, they cannot be set to expire after a duration (that's more for overtime and entity modifiers). You'll need to manually create another buff to set the ownership back, though admittingly I'm not sure if that's possible with an ability initiated by the player. You may need to create an ability for the original owner that sets it back on the culture center.

I can figure out how to do it via a second ability, but I was just wondering if there was any way to undo it.

Again, you cannot undo instant actions accept by doing another instant action that does the opposite of the first. As far as I can tell, the first spawner is the player who owned the ability, so using "ChangePlayerIndexToFirstSpawner" can only be used to change the ownership to the player who fired the deliverance engine.

To change it back, I'd add a buff that applies a second buff to itself on the culture center. This second buff will be applied when the first one ends, and the first one's finish condition will be on owner change. The second buff will use "ChangePlayerIndexToFirstSpawner" on a delay equal to the deliverance engine duration.

Is there any way to create new Weapon Class Types and if there is how would you do so? 

Also???

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsDiplomacy\Release\CodeSource\GS/Entity/EntitySystemHelpers.cpp(691)

starBase->GetIStarBasePtr()->GetDef().creationSourceAbility.IsValid()

You can take any of the weapons that already exist in game and assign them any sorts of stats or ability/buffs you like.  But you can't create new types (you can rename them).

Check the links up top for weapons type discussions and look in this thread for enumeration of the types.

After going through and doing that I found that with 8 races I used the same amount of weapons so I was lucky that I didn't have to cut something from one of them.

There are at least 3 unused weapon types in diplomacy, and Rebellion adds a whole lot more only a titan or corvettes use.

Sounds like you have a starbase that can't find the ability that created it. If you just copied and pasted a vanilla file, make sure you update the CreationSourceAbility line to take into account a different ship/ability made the new starbase.

Okay that fixed that a bunch of minor errors they were all string related popped up but it started and worked so thank you.