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9 years 9 months ago #9625 by HeartOfTheTiger
Mod Excalibur to carry torpedos was created by HeartOfTheTiger
I know this is probably a ship table mod but I want the Excalibur to be able to carry torpedos. What do I need to adjust to do this?

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9 years 9 months ago - 9 years 9 months ago #9626 by X3N0-Life-Form
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You need to create a modular ships table, iow is a text file called something-shp.tbm, whose contents will look a bit like this (I'll let you fill in the blanks for now, I need to absorb more tea to get my brain working), and put this in data/tables.
#Ship Classes

$Name:    [whatever the excalibur's full name is, as it appears in the mission editor]
  +nocreate
$Allowed SBanks: ("list" "of" "confed" "missiles" ", don't" "forget" "to" "add" "the confed torpedo" "in there")

#End

Next is adding torpedoes to the team loadouts of the missions you want.
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9 years 9 months ago #9627 by HeartOfTheTiger
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I have put the following into a TBM file called excal-wep.tbm in data\tables:
#Ship Classes

$Name: F-103A Excalibur
  +nocreate
$Allowed SBanks: ( "Pilum FF" "Spiculum IR" "Javelin HS" "Porcupine" "Dart Dumbfire" "Lance" )
$Allowed Dogfight SBanks: ( "Pilum FF" "Spiculum IR" "Javelin HS" "Porcupine" "Dart Dumbfire" "Lance" )

I still can't select the torpedo. What did I do wrong here?

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9 years 9 months ago #9628 by X3N0-Life-Form
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That'll teach me to post half asleep ...

OK, the table actually needs to be called excal-shp.tbm
Sorry for the inconvenience :s

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9 years 9 months ago #9629 by HeartOfTheTiger
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X3N0-Life-Form wrote: That'll teach me to post half asleep ...

OK, the table actually needs to be called excal-shp.tbm
Sorry for the inconvenience :s


It's ok :) So if I want to mod a SHIP the file format has to be <name>-shp.tbm. To mod a Weapon use the other format

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9 years 9 months ago #9634 by HeartOfTheTiger
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HeartOfTheTiger wrote: I have put the following into a TBM file called excal-wep.tbm in data\tables:

#Ship Classes

$Name: F-103A Excalibur
  +nocreate
$Allowed SBanks: ( "Pilum FF" "Spiculum IR" "Javelin HS" "Porcupine" "Dart Dumbfire" "Lance" )
$Allowed Dogfight SBanks: ( "Pilum FF" "Spiculum IR" "Javelin HS" "Porcupine" "Dart Dumbfire" "Lance" )


If I remove the allowed DogFight line that means that I cannot use the torpedo against fighters...correct? I also added the necessary #End statment

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9 years 9 months ago #9635 by X3N0-Life-Form
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Actually, Dogfight weapons are only used for multiplayer dogfight games, so you don't need to concern yourself with that ;) .



If you want more info about tables: www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Tables
Note that the WCS engine is an offshoot of Freespace Open 3.6.12, and as such doesn't support any feature from higher versions.

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9 years 9 months ago #9636 by HeartOfTheTiger
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This makes the Excalibur a nice capship killer :) I figure if it carried a T-Bomb Lance torpedoes ought to be nothing!

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9 years 9 months ago #9649 by KeldorKatarn
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HeartOfTheTiger wrote: This makes the Excalibur a nice capship killer :) I figure if it carried a T-Bomb Lance torpedoes ought to be nothing!

According to the novel carrying that T-Bomb actually meant leaving the entire rest of the payload behind and being very sluggish, that's why Blair wanted >two excaliburs guarding him while he was a sitting duck in that machine. Didn't play out like that in the game but it makes sense, so the excal was never really meant to carry anything of that magnitude.

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9 years 9 months ago #9650 by HeartOfTheTiger
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KeldorKatarn wrote:

HeartOfTheTiger wrote: This makes the Excalibur a nice capship killer :) I figure if it carried a T-Bomb Lance torpedoes ought to be nothing!

According to the novel carrying that T-Bomb actually meant leaving the entire rest of the payload behind and being very sluggish, that's why Blair wanted >two excaliburs guarding him while he was a sitting duck in that machine. Didn't play out like that in the game but it makes sense, so the excal was never really meant to carry anything of that magnitude.


I forgot about that! Duh

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