Laser color

[Smivs]

Hi,
Quick question regarding laser color, can you set different colors for forward and aft lasers on NPCs?
Would this work?

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forward_weapon_type = "WEAPON_MILITARY_LASER";
"laser_color" = "cyanColor";
aft_weapon_type = "WEAPON_BEAM_LASER";
"laser_color" = "magentaColor";

[Thargoid]

I don't think it's possible - it's one laser colour per ship (or per shipdata iyswim). Don't forget it's a non-ordered list in essence, hence in effect you've just got a duplicate key there (laser_color) being assigned two different values. At best the second interpretted one would just overwrite the first, or at worst things would choke.

[Smivs]

Thanks Thargoid,
I thought that was likely. Shame really.

[Killer Wolf]

The Vampires get around this using sub ents, they're all front-facing though, dunno if there's any quirks buidling additional rear guns.

[Commander McLane]

Killer Wolf has the answer: If you want different colours, use a subentity. You can attach a front-laser-subentity and then not give the main entity a front laser, or do the same at the rear (or both). If you make the subentity non-frangible, the player won't notice that it's anything else than a normal ship.

And as for plists, Thargoid is right. It's a non-ordered array with named keys instead of numbers. But you can use each key only once per array.

[Smivs]

Thanks guys, but It's not really worth the effort for what I had in mind. It was a tiny detail that probably no-one would even notice.

[sqwer]

if it possible to use pictures / animated for laser shoot (ani,bmp,png,pcx etc.)
like other games ?

if it possible to use pictures , to show pictures by pressing a key ?

ok, i know it, is hard scripting answer ...

thx

[Commander McLane]

if it possible to use pictures / animated for laser shoot (ani,bmp,png,pcx etc.)
like other games ?

No.

if it possible to use pictures , to show pictures by pressing a key ?

What kind of pictures? And where do you want to show them?

You can show any picture on a mission screen, and you don't need a special keypress for that.

But if you're thinking about creating a pop-up window with a picture in it, the answer is no.