Request: Launcher slots in ship database

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Roguey

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Posted 2 months ago.

woh, thank-you for that information - I wasnt expecting that Smile

Well ive been going through the Yasur this morning. It looks like the Yasur may have to be considered a special case. The xml (not macro file) clearly has missile tag in the xml;


<connection name="con_weapon_02" tags="weapon small platformcollision standard combat venture missile symmetry symmetry_left symmetry_1 "/>
<connection name="con_weapon_04" tags="weapon small platformcollision standard combat venture missile symmetry symmetry_left symmetry_2 " />
<connection name="con_weapon_01" tags="weapon small platformcollision standard combat venture missile symmetry symmetry_right symmetry_1 " />
<connection name="con_weapon_03" tags="weapon small platformcollision standard combat venture missile symmetry symmetry_right symmetry_2 "/>


But... As you said in-game (thanks for the save - that helped) it doesnt have missiles but says Brane/Advanced slots (this is whats confusing me). Ive gone through each patch (v6.1, v6.2, v7.0 and v7.1). Maybe there’s another file somewhere overwriting these tags? Id just have to overwrite these tags myself - for unknown reasons?!? Messy but I dont know what they have done. X4 code is a bit of mess at times.

In the ship page, I have added a bit of code to change them to standard weapons instead of launchers.

TheSylance

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Posted 1 month ago.

woh, thank-you for that information - I wasnt expecting that
- Roguey

Which Info did you not expect?^^


maybe it is Not interpreted by the engine as two Tags "venture and missile" but as one Tag "Venture Missile".
Not
"Combat,venture,missile,..."
but
"Combat, venture-missile,..."

and venture-missile might be interpreted as "Braine/advanced" by the Game.
Since I have No way of Reading/changing the files you get this Info from, maybe Change another Ships guntype and add "venture missile" to the tags and See If Braine/advanced Pops Up Ingame?

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Roguey

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Posted 1 month ago.

maybe it is Not interpreted by the engine as two Tags "venture and missile" but as one Tag "Venture Missile".
- TheSylance

Its possible the engine sees it has 1 tag instead of two, but normally it would be considered two tags.

Tags are normally separated by a spaces and not comas (in X4 XML files). I dunno.. Egosoft do some pretty weird stuff in their code, which makes it hard to follow. I would have broken down missile to subgroups too (like X3+).. dumbfire-missile, swarm-missile, heatseek-missile etc. instead of just 'missile' too.

TheSylance

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Posted 1 month ago.

I am more of a "Player-type" guy nowadays, and have never been fond of missiles. So while I did play X3 back in the day, I do not remember the missile system they used.^^

Btw: please excuse the fact that many words start with a capital letter. In German every noun starts with a capital letter.
So of course, as soon as my phone thinks "this is a German noun" it autocorrects it. And most of the time I don't realize until later.


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