an Ion Weapon

[Fire Phoenix]

Hey guys I've made an ion weapon for a vehicle and I got a problem with damage. Is it possible to make it damage only shields and after they're are 0 do not lower player's(vehicle's) hp? 

[Tempust85]

See if looking at the thermal detonator code will provide some assistance. I've noticed it will damage my shield down to 0 before I get any health reduced.

[Fire Phoenix]

Its not what I want. I only want to low down shields/armor and do not low hp after the armor is gone.

[Pande]

That's why he said to look at the thermal code, it is specifically damaging only armor at some point in the code. You can then ignore the part after where it checks for 0 armor and then proceeds to do damage to hp.

 

By the way, ion weapons are canonically supposed to do at least a little bit of damage to organic nervous systems.

[Archangel35757]

..but shouldn't it do damage to droids?

[Fire Phoenix]

I guess you're right. Well that leads me to the dead end unless there is a way to make it damage vehicles and not damage players.

[Fire Phoenix]

Talking about the shields... Is it possible to make VH_WALKER not deflecting blasters? And please don't send me again to the source codes or smth. I have no idea what it is and I think dont want to know.

[therfiles]

Perhaps you could run a script on it (can you name vehicle npcs?) and set SET_SHIELDING to 0 via ICARUS using BehavED. Not sure if that would work however...

[eezstreet]

The Thermal does no special damage, it's just standard splash damage.

[Archangel35757]

Can't you just add the logic code for what you are shooting & hitting and based on that tell it what kind of damage to do?

[Fire Phoenix]

Honsetly I have no idea what you're guys talking about xD. Anyway, here's the vehicle properties: 

droideka1
{
name droideka1
type VH_WALKER
numHands 2
hideRider 1
killRiderOnDeath 1
lookYaw 45
lookPitch 45
length 60
width 60
height 60
centerOfGravity "-0.222 0 0"
speedMax 500
speedMin -80
acceleration 8
decelIdle 10
strafePerc 0.5
bankingSpeed 0.0
rollLimit 2
pitchLimit 0
braking 10
mouseYaw 0.003
mousePitch 0.01
turningSpeed 6
turnWhenStopped 1
traction 100
friction 100
maxSlope 0.7
VehicleScale 70
mass 10
armor 450
toughness 10
model droideka
skin default
radarIcon "gfx/menus/radar/atst"
explosionRadius 400
explosionDamage 1000
explodeFX "ships/ship_explosion2"
explosionDelay 2450
soundOn "sound/chars/atst/atst_hatch_close.mp3"
soundOff "sound/chars/atst/atst_hatch_open.mp3"

weap1 droideka_red_laser
weap1Delay 80
weap1Aim 1
weap1AmmoMax 120
weap1AmmoRechargeMS 400
weap1Link 0

weap2 droideka_blue_laser
weap2Delay 1400
weap2Aim 0
weap2AmmoMax 25
weap2AmmoRechargeMS 3500
weap2Link 2

weapMuzzle1 droideka_red_laser
weapMuzzle2 droideka_red_laser
weapMuzzle3 droideka_blue_laser
weapMuzzle4 droideka_blue_laser

cameraOverride 1
cameraRange 150
cameraVertOffset 20
cameraPitchOffset 15
cameraFOV 100
//This just doesn't work on levels with fog, so... leave it off
cameraAlpha 0
//cameraPitchDependantVertOffset 0
shields 1000
shieldRechargeMS 2000

}


Make it absorb every weapon shots. I've noticed that when I change VH_WALKER to VH_SPEEDER it works but it needs to be VH_WALKER to move like I want.

Ion Weapon Code:

droideka_blue_laser
{
name droideka_blue_laser
projectile 1
ionWeapon 1
saberBlockable 0
muzzleFX "vehicles/droideka/IonBlaster/muzzle_flash"
shotFX "vehicles/droideka/IonBlaster/projectile"
impactFX "vehicles/droideka/IonBlaster/flesh_impact"
g2MarkShader "vehicles/droideka/IonBlaster/wall_impact"
g2MarkSize 16
loopSound "sound/vehicles/weapons/ionblaster/ionloop.wav"
speed 2500
damage 170
ammoPerShot 1
}
 

[Fire Phoenix]

thanks for help.... (I didn't get any LOL)