Torpedo Spread Script Explaination..?

[Anew9]

Can someone explain how we can manipulate the spread of torpedoes in BC? I've been searching the forums and looking at the MPE tutorial but I am not quite sure how it works.

For example: kFiringChainString.SetString("0;Single;123;Dual;53;Quad")

What do each of the numbers mean? How can I get my ships to fire 2, 3,4,5 or 10 torpedoes in one spread?

[KrrKs]

From the MPE tutorial:

Firing chain string: used to implement torpedo spread modes. It's a semicolon-delimited string, with weapon group numbers followed by a string used to display the name of the spread. (Zero is used for the group of all weapons, single-firing.)

The "123;Dual" in your example means that launcher groups 1, 2, and 3 always try to fire simultaneously (the 3rd most likely facing backwards)

I'm not sure but it is possibly that "5" is the max. number of weapon Groups and/or means that all tubes should fire at the same time.

[tiqhud]

5 is YES, remember there are, Only 5 spots

[King Class Scout]

there's also a run on this in the tutorial section.  I'd asked the question earlier

[tiqhud]

I also found out some time back, with fast finger on trigger, you get better accuracy using Single Spreading , but that is me.

[JimmyB76]

http://bc-central.net/forums/index.php/topic,7886.0.html

[Anew9]

http://bc-central.net/forums/index.php/topic,7886.0.html

Perfect, thanks!