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REBELLION MODDING TOPICS
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IT REALLY HURTS MY BRAIN--HOW TO START
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It's in Gameplay.constants->CapitalShipData.
See...
ExperienceLevelData
and
PurchaseNextLevelTime
So what are you doing?
Is it possible to create a ship/structure that can't be scuttled by the owning player?
Yes, with a passive ability and buff that adds the bool CannotBeScuttled.
Cool. I have an in-game object that will be pre-placed in maps that I don't want the owning player to be able to scuttle.
I also thought it would be evil to create a planet that when colonized bites you in the butt and can't be abandoned.
Muwahahahahahaahhahaha!
Zombie kudos for your answer sir...and note the thread has a new header graphic now. It's awesome, covered with tiger blood and diamonds.
Is there a way to disable a ship's ability to bomb planet via passive ability, like with an entityBoolModifier or something along those lines?
An enemy ship i.e. an ability being cast / a passive ability from one ship affecting another ship? Or are we talking about a re searchable item?
I do not see Tiger Blood or Diamonds.
This thread is a web of lies.
If you want to prevent ships from attacking a planet, the Relic planet from Sins Plus has a passive ability. Uses the invunerable method.
I think he wanted to prevent one ship from attacking a planet, not necessarily all ships.
Target filter?
Well guess not since that would effect more than one type of ship. But you could narrow it down like that, no?
I thought the relic shield from Sins plus made the entire planet invulnerable, thus preventing all ships from attacking it.
While the ability is active yes that sounds about right.
This could probably be adapted into a re-searchable ability for each ship?
Yes it does but you could add a target filter to it, to prevent certaint ships from doing anything to it.
Just shooting ideas...since thats what i do,
No tiger blood for you! Come back in one week!!
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Nah, a ship that has a passive ability that disables it's planet bombing, ApplyBuffToSelf in other words. It will be unlocked by research yes, though I don't see how that is really relevant. Basically the Sins AI is stupid and whenever a frigate has planet bombing capabilities it will just rush to bomb the planet, even if the frigate isn't designated as a Siege frigate. So, what I figure I'll do is put in this ability for all frigates except for the one designated as a Siege frigate so the AI preforms better.
Okay, texturing noob question. I have a UV map where some of the islands seem to have been scaled more on v axis than the u axis, thus I have a distorted shape that doesn't fit nicely on the texture. My scale tool in the texture editor seems to be stuck on scaling the island uniformly. Is there a way I can change it so that I scale the u axis more to get it back to its proper shape, or am I going about this the wrong way?
Anyone? Pretty please with some karma on top?
in XSI, you can hold down right mouse and only scale left, right or middle mouse to just scale up down. Might have those buttons backwards but you get the idea. Also works for transform, scale and rotate
Model/texture question. So I have this model, it looks fine in Softimage, but not ingame. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this, and more importantly, how to fix it?
My first guess would be the tangents, especially as they'd be pretty hard to get right on a model with weird shape like that. Though if both of those pictures show the same textures that's the most dramatic thing I've ever tangents mess up.
Not a tangent issue. Tangents are the angle of reflection from a light source.
The UV editor has options for blurring and skewing UVs. Did you maybe press 1 by mistake.
Did you check the model for 5 sided polygons?
Can you upload the scene/texture archive for a modeller to look at?
I didn't make the model myself; converted it from .max to .obj and then rigged it up. Here's the scene with the textures.
Are there any issues with making a particle effect model with only one side having a face (meaning the other side is "see through")?
probably same as a model where u see inside, the polys backside
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