[COMPILATION] Final Mod Pack (FMP)

[Solarius Scorch]

@Solarius:

ON the latest nigthy 2015_09_12_0815, in battlescape happens that my soldier see the enemy, but sprite is not displayed; do not have a screenshot right now but i remember that it occured with the Antropod alien (the blue one from xcom: apocalyps).

Interesting. Without the save I can't say much, but... interesting.

In other news, I'm adding pWWWWa's plasma melee weapons to the FMP.

[niculinux]

Interesting. Without the save I can't say much, but... interesting.

In other news, I'm adding pWWWWa's plasma melee weapons to the FMP.

Super! hey how about to use my awesome resources  here: click see "invitation" in first post! 

[Solarius Scorch]

Super! hey how about to use my awesome resources  here: click see "invitation" in first post! 

Thanks, but I have enough guns for now.

[niculinux]

OK! One more thing: since i think it is not necessary to have 2 rifles from the biginning - assault rifle and rifle (vanilla) - i'd suggesto to have only the assaul ton at thr beginning, later the other one may be researched and manufactured, with the name improved rifle or better yet, x-com rifle!  If this proposal meets some favor, please, ma you change the vanilla sprite since i never stood it  for some examples see here, i'll be just spoiled for choice! 

Edit: please at least may you use my"Uzi" in place of the submachine gun? And a new starting skyranger as the one shown here (plane.png)?

[Solarius Scorch]

Edit: please at least may you use my"Uzi" in place of the submachine gun? And a new starting skyranger as the one shown here (plane.png)?

Why?

[niculinux]

Why?

Only for you to consider  and also bucause i never stood that submachine gun sprite either :,( though  it's very futuristic, total recall style

[Solarius Scorch]

Only for you to consider  and also bucause i never stood that submachine gun sprite either :,( though  it's very futuristic, total recall style

X-Com weapons are all futuristic, so I guess the SMG blends rather well. There's already an Uzi, currently used by hybrids (and in the future other factions).

[niculinux]

X-Com weapons are all futuristic, so I guess the SMG blends rather well. There's already an Uzi, currently used by hybrids (and in the future other factions).

Ah ok missed that. Maybe it may have featured as a buyabel startin' wepon, an then the the futu-SMG may be had to research ( eg. topic improved firearms), with improved firepower and slightly  increased range. Over and out! 

[TigerLord]

Hi Solarius Scorch, love the FMP!

Is it possible however to turn off the explosion flash when HWP's fire etc, it is a cool effect but find it a bit distracting as I tend to use HWP's alot.

Thanks

[Meridian]

The flash is part of OpenXcom itself, not FMP... and I also find it EXTREMELY irritating

[yrizoud]

The relevant piece of code is here:
https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/blob/972a9142a81f66309fce99ea8baf20119ce6f3dc/src/Battlescape/Map.cpp#L1221
It computes the brightest color by rounding each pixel to the closest-lower multiple of 16 (0-15 become 0, 16-31 become 16, etc...)
The effect could be made much more subtle, for example

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pixel = ((pixel / 16) * 16 + pixel) / 2;This maps colors 0-15 to 0-7 (instead of all 0)

[Dioxine]

The flash is the most irritating when the game pauses to show death notification... with the flash being frozen in the background. The flash itself is fine, but as it is now, it's either weird - why should a tiny explosion lit up the whole map? - or invisible due to the screen being swamped by a huge sea of flame anyway. It doesn't produce actual light either - you might get lucky and spot someone during that split-second, but your soldiers won't.

[Meridian]

I have researched Blaster Bomb first.
Afterwards I have researched Blaster Launcher... and after that the game told me I need to research Blaster Bomb (again?) to be able to manufacture Blaster Launcher... although it is actually "Fusion Weapons" research that's missing for manufacturing.

Not sure if you can do anything about it... just in case, attached is a save just before the Blaster Launcher research is finished...

[Solarius Scorch]

Yeah, looks like a bug in the ruleset for manufacturing. Thanks for the report.

EDIT:
Version 1.7.1 is online.

• Added plasma blades, by pWWWa.
• Made the first Martian stage a bit more interesting.
• A small fix regarding blaster bomb production.
• Added a graphic file of the entire tech tree, by Meridian.

[Meridian]

The download link has a special character again and thus is not downloadable.... Jo5hua if you're out there, it would be really nice to fix this at some point.... please.