Auto Destruct (3.0.7)

[Tyler]

posted on August 24th, 2009, 4:42 am

Last edited by Tyler on February 15th, 2010, 3:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The ability to destroy your own ships, used in canon to prevent capture of the vessel by enemies. It was removed from FO, but I missed setting it...watching my ships get assimilated, then exploding randomly as they left the battleground. Few things in stock A2 were as satisfying as seeing that.

The ability isn't wise to use if your own ships are in the immediate vacinity, as it causes area damage. The countdown and range of the shockwave varies by empire.

Some assembly required: This is the Auto Destruct ability, you will obviously have to add it to ships of your choosing personally.

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FO Auto-Destruct.rar

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posted on August 24th, 2009, 4:51 am

And now for the customary screenshots of it.

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posted on October 18th, 2009, 11:11 pm

Hey I tried using this but it just crashes the game. Everything works fine up until the actual explosion of the vessel.
The button works fine and the voice works but after lil sparks fly from ship the game just crashes..So Im thinking maybe there is something missing?....anyone else have a problem with this?

posted on October 19th, 2009, 9:37 pm

Hmm ok been half a day....dont mean to bump but like to get this working.

posted on October 19th, 2009, 9:44 pm

Yeah, the exact same thing happened to me when I tried this

Now no senseless blowing up of my ships

posted on October 19th, 2009, 10:00 pm

Are the files xselfbal and xselfd included with FO?

posted on October 19th, 2009, 10:00 pm

Im using a patched .spr file but I dont think that has anything to do with it...but I did notice that the stock texture of the self destruct wave included in FO is named "wselfdes.tga" perhaps this has something to do with it maybe?...

posted on October 19th, 2009, 10:02 pm

Are the files xselfbal and xselfd included with FO?

WHat files are these? I checked the texture odf and sod directories and did not find them.

[Tyler]

posted on October 19th, 2009, 10:04 pm

Last edited by Tyler on October 19th, 2009, 10:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

FO doesn't come with them? That must be the problem... they are needed for the explosion to complete.

I've replaced the Auto-Destruct with another version. Try it now.

posted on October 19th, 2009, 10:07 pm

so then u must have installed them into ur copy then right?...so it does work we just need those 2 files corect? and I double checked and they are not in FO.

posted on October 19th, 2009, 10:09 pm

I forgot to add them... see if the new one that includes them works.

posted on October 19th, 2009, 10:13 pm

Thanks Tyler




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posted on November 14th, 2010, 6:51 am

Hi,

nice idea - but can this updatet for the actual FO 3.1.3 ?
Have found - many things in the  tooltypes dont match the orginal file .... (dynamic_string ...)
(so i am doing anything wrong or the file format have changed ....)

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R-TEAM