MOD: Space Empires V - Babylon 5

[Fyron]

Ragnarok-X said:
I will be more sensitive next time, sorry about that.

I was actually asking a serious question. I wasn't offended or anything.

Ragnarok-X said:
But what about the Damage Percent ? Should it be it 70 or 100 ?

Damage Percent is multiplied against the damage done to the armor component (IIRC after the Penetration Percent is removed). Setting it to 0 means no damage at all is done. Setting it to 70 means 30% of the damage will be dropped (in addition to the 30% that passes on to the next component). You should probably set it to 100.

Ragnarok-X said:
I have various different things, but in fact NEVER was damaage spread to the internals without the armor being first 100% destroyed.

As stated previously, damage has to go through every armor component, in the order they were added to the ship, before anything gets to the internals. If you have 10 armor components, a 30% penetration percent will not get all the way through. Assuming Damage Percent is set to 100, Armor 1 will take 70% of the hit's damage. Armor 2 will take 21% of the hit's damage. Armor 3 will take 6.3% of the damage, and so on.

If you want really leaky armor, try setting the penetration to a high value, like 90.

[Suicide Junkie]

To calculate how much damage will be absorbed by the armor:
(penetration factor) ^ (number of layers)


For example: 5 layers of armor that each leak 70% of the damage through (70% penetration = 0.7)

0.7 ^ 5 = 0.168

Therefore, only 17% of the damage will make it all the way through those 5 layers.

[Ragnarok-X]

Regarding the weapon to hit modifier formula. How would i go about capping it at some point ?

I want a gun that gets a to hit bonus when being away from the target:

[%Range%] / 2


However, i want it to be capped at 25 or what.

[Fyron]

If you look on page 53 of the modding doc, you will see some useful functions. Min is what you want in this case. It will return the smaller of the two values.

Min([%Range%] / 2, 25)

[Arralen]

Fyron said:

If you look on page 53 of the modding doc, you will see some useful functions. Min is what you want in this case. It will return the smaller of the two values.
Min([%Range%] / 2, 25)

As he wants a cap, he would need a MAX function .. if there's any (dunno, never read that doc). ;-)

[Suicide Junkie]

Max would provide a minimum value. (It never goes below X)
Max( X , SomeValue) Returns the bigger of the two.

Min provides a maximum value. (It never goes above X)
Min( X , SomeValue) Returns the smaller of the two.

[Fyron]

Arralen said:
"As he wants a cap, he would need a MAX function .. if there's any (dunno, never read that doc)."

Ah, the trap of function naming. Catches up everyone when they first think about using Min and Max functions. Gotta love reverse logical thinking.