Sentinel Class

[hobbs]

i'd beta

[Nihilus]

I may have found another problem but I don't if this is happening to anyone else.  I downloaded a Defiant Class so I can get the pulse phasers going but now when I take the Sentinel into combat, the game crashes.  I believe it crashes while attempting to shoot the Pulse Phasers since it never crashes when she shoots Quantums or regular phasers.

[DJ Curtis]

sounds like it's looking for a projectile script that's not there.

[Locke]

Hmmm . . . it should be using KM2010.02 pulses, or the 09 version.  Either way, the Defiant from that is what I have installed.

If no one else is gonna say it, I will: this ship sucks right now.  Needs a whole bunch of work that I frankly don't know how to do.  The weapons need severe adjustments, since the torps seem too strong and the phasers don't drain fast enough.  I can't seem to make heads or tails of the MPE phaser settings.  It's a miracle they fire in the correct arcs!

The turning is in desperate need of some tweaking, as it still overcorrects.

And has anyone noticed how badly it damages?!  The first version I made (the double-sized one) damaged nice and smoothly.  But every time I get hit with this one, I get weird, bulbous holes that crater outside of the original hull areas.  It also damages FAR too quickly.  I had most of my ship missing when I still had 50% shields and all my power functional.

How do I go about correcting these things?

[Nebula]

don't forget to delete the vox nif... that fixes most damage issues.

[Lionus]

Federation finally defeated Romulans in a spectacular display of skill in an old earth game called "peek-a-boo".

[Nihilus]

Federation finally defeated Romulans in a spectacular display of skill in an old earth game called "peek-a-boo".

That's awesome .  Quick off topic question here though... how do you manage to get that close?  I turn collisions off but that doesn't stop the other ship from simply flying away to avoid me when I get too close.

[Billz]

That's awesome .  Quick off topic question here though... how do you manage to get that close?  I turn collisions off but that doesn't stop the other ship from simply flying away to avoid me when I get too close.

Destroy the enemy ship's impulse engines. Pretty simple.

Locke, did you get my message of the broken download link by the way?

[shade_30]

That's awesome .  Quick off topic question here though... how do you manage to get that close?  I turn collisions off but that doesn't stop the other ship from simply flying away to avoid me when I get too close.

Destroy the enemy ship's impulse engines. Pretty simple.

Locke, did you get my message of the broken download link by the way?

Alternatively, you can just use a friendly ship, it will stay still until you aproach it. But if you're stealthed, it won't see you and thus will continue to sit still.
(I used to park the BoP inside a warbird that way back before I used mods =p (With collisions on I might add))

on topic:
the ship looks great, love her!

Also about the HP'ing, I know nothing of placement etc, but I might be able to help you with weapon strength etc

[Lurok91]

Torpedo strength can be easily changed in projectile script (it's also handy to changed speed and lifetime while at it)

Way back when I first started balancing HPs, got this info off KM forums; handy guide for mpe phaser stats:

SetMaxCharge(5.000000)  <--controls max units it charges too
SetMaxDamage(1000.000000)  <-how much damaged 1 unit of charge does.
SetMaxDamageDistance(60.000000)   <--your range. I assume in KM.
SetMinFiringCharge(2.000000)     <---you must charge 2 units before you can fire.
SetNormalDischargeRate(1.000000)  <-discharges 1 unit of charge (I believe this will use
1 per second which means max charge 5 is a 5 second burst) 
SetRechargeRate(0.080000)  <--a rather slow recharge rate. I'd use .2 or .4 for a quick
charge bank. experiment.
 
SetTextureName("data/phaser27a.tga") <--you may change your phaser texture by pasting
the name including extension as shown. Make sure said file is in your data folder.

I never have MaxCharge over 1, as I like the very short phaser bursts.

[Nebula]

Destroy the enemy ship's impulse engines. Pretty simple.

Locke, did you get my message of the broken download link by the way?

or you could just beam over to the rom ship turn engines off then beam back to your ship and park there.

[Lionus]

I just set him friendly and gave order to stop the ship.. and I left the collisions on, much more rewarding to pull off this trick that way..

[Locke]

I'm trying right now to check other ships' stats using MPE, but there are some ships that just won't show up in the script select section.  The Sovereign, Defiant and Sabre just to name a few.  And these are (with the exception of the Sovereign) KM ships.  The python files are the unpacked version (snakes with closed eyes).  How do I "unpack" them so they are viewable?  I want to see about what textures the Sov uses for torps, and some stuff from the Defiant.

[Nebula]

the py files for those ships are in the src folder.

we kept the py and pyc files sep

[Locke]

I'm playing with the weapons sets right now, and I came across a small problem: how do I figure out where the original files came from?  Unless I use absolutely STOCK stuff, I need to get permissions.  I don't want someone coming back at me a month from now and complaining that I stole their stuff when I couldn't figure out where it came from.  The textures and scripts I can probably work out on my own.  I can create my own versions of those, but I don't know much about sound editing.

[DJ Curtis]

People release them for you to use with your ships.  Don't worry about it.  Give credit.

You said you were having trouble figuring out the phaser arcs.  Here's a little tutorial.  Set up a basic phaser, don't change anything, and you'll quickly see how it works. 

Feel free to ask questions if you need clarification on anything specific.

[Locke]

Thanks, DJ!  Graphical instruction is always helpful . . .

I think I've got all of that, now.

Should have the weapons done by the end of the afternoon, here.  New beta will be ready for the interested parties by nightfall.  I'll send you all a note when it's uploaded.

[Nihilus]

Thanks, DJ!  Graphical instruction is always helpful . . .

I think I've got all of that, now.

Should have the weapons done by the end of the afternoon, here.  New beta will be ready for the interested parties by nightfall.  I'll send you all a note when it's uploaded.

Sounds fun

[Locke]

N00b moments . . . yaaaayyyy . . . .

I don't know how to read the MPE phaser settings for the beam.  As in: what are "Taper min length" and "Taper max length"?  Do they refer to how far from the emitter the beam starts to taper and stops tapering?  What is "Taper radius"?  The rest is fairly self-explanatory.

[Locke]

ATTENTION BETA TESTERS:

If you have any concerns, now's the time.  I'm gonna publish this afternoon. ;)