Mod Excalibur to carry torpedos — Forum Archive

Jan 13, 2015 05:20

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?

Jan 13, 2015 08:53

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.

Jan 13, 2015 16:45

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?

Jan 13, 2015 23:37

That'll teach me to post half asleep ...

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

Jan 14, 2015 00:20

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

Jan 14, 2015 02:51

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

Jan 14, 2015 09:39

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: http://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.

Jan 14, 2015 21:24

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

Jan 24, 2015 23:58

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.

Jan 25, 2015 03:05

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I forgot about that! Duh