Mod Help

[Phoenix-D]

Umm. Just FYI, the numbers on the top row are the RANGE, not the damage. The in-game damage bar figures out what range your weapon goes out to, then divides it into 10 squares of display.

[Sundansyr]

Phoenix-D said:
Umm. Just FYI, the numbers on the top row are the RANGE,

AHHHHhhhhh, ah HAH! I did not know this! Thank you, that edifies me greatly.

Now it makes a whole lot more sense.

On that display, however, mines have a range of 90 (damage out to 30!). Or is that just the game parsing some arbitrary minimum range instead of just filling the boxes with zeros?

[Sundansyr]

Now, on to other things.

Any ideas on what might be causing my Floating Point error when trying to start a new game? I have made no mods to the starting ships at all.

[Hok]

I'm a sw dev. and every time there's a floating point error one should check for some dangerous ZERO somewhere.

i.e.: if something must be calculated dividing the Range of a weapon by its Power, then if you give Power a value of zero, you could get a f.p. error somewhere...

I'm only trying to guess, hope it helps

[Ed Kolis]

Sundansyr said:
On that display, however, mines have a range of 90 (damage out to 30!). Or is that just the game parsing some arbitrary minimum range instead of just filling the boxes with zeros?

For weapons that have a max range (not for their level but a max for any level, as specified in main_components.txt) of <100, the game will show ranges in 10ls increments; if it's between 100 and 200, they'll show up in 20ls increments, and so on. The damage out to range 30, I think, means that the mine will detonate when a ship comes within 30ls of it and damage that ship (and maybe other things nearby, I'm not sure).