File functions, Mods and the Patch Project

posted on May 10th, 2011, 7:36 pm

Woops, again my ignorance  Meant to say shield SOD, not command 

posted on May 10th, 2011, 8:05 pm

wait does that mean certain specials can cause different shield effects or am i just getting confussed

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posted on May 10th, 2011, 8:09 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on May 10th, 2011, 8:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

yeah, shield effects are defined by ship odf's not special weapons as far as I am aware.

Sorry, I meant to say that they are defined in the ship odf's and the weapon odf's.  So a weapon can define what it looks like when it hits a ship, e.g. explosions, and a ship defines what the shield tension effect looks like.   it is a bit confusing.

posted on May 10th, 2011, 8:44 pm

Would it be possible for the shields to take the shape of the unit instead of being a spheroid around the unit?

posted on May 10th, 2011, 8:46 pm

It would, and would be similar to the overlay for the Sensor Nebula. Need one for every class, but I believe it's planned for some ships.

posted on May 11th, 2011, 5:49 am

Would it be possible for the shields to take the shape of the unit instead of being a spheroid around the unit?

that was planned early on but proofed to be too complex to implement. this is still on the todo list

anyway, we are getting slightly off-topic

posted on June 29th, 2011, 1:16 am

Thank you, at first i was all mad my mods may not work but after seeing this, i am beyond the threshold of pleased 

posted on June 29th, 2011, 5:05 pm

You know this is all ingame now right?

Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - Fleet Operations 3.2.3