[craft weapon] MoriartyPlasmaCannon (please test for balancing!)

[moriarty]

hmmm... something is still wrong with the colors. probably a color index problem:

[Falko]

he did not fix the palette

[Solarius Scorch]

He used another file which used to work.

But there were some palette shenanigans, so I'll do it again... But I need to study it for a bit.

EDIT:

Try these versions. They're untested, since I can't access the game now, but the palettes should be fine (probably).

I'm not perfectly happy with inticon, but the palette has its limits, and so does my skill.

[moriarty]

nope, still the same...

[Falko]

use these
Edit: the palette here is also not original but varies only by less than 1% in its color values from the original (was i quick/ugly fix)

[Solarius Scorch]

nope, still the same...

I have no explanation for this.

Let me upload my palettes, can someone tell me if they're wrong?

[moriarty]

use these
Edit: the palette here is also not original but varies only by less than 1% in its color values from the original (was i quick/ugly fix)

close, but no cigar... (see attached screenshots).

does anybody have real extracted basebits and inticon sprites? that would really be helpful...

[Falko]

here 2 examples with geo and basescape palette

[moriarty]

ah, sorry, I should have been more specific: does anybody have real basebits / inticon craft weapon sprites? (with the right in-game palette, of course)

that would make it way easier to create new weapon sprites, because you can simply modify them, directly picking the right colors from within the sprite.

[moriarty]

okay, update: thanks to Falko's help in the PCKview thread I've now made fully working sprites for the new plasma cannon!

at least, I hope they're working. can anybody test them, please? and if you do, while you're at it: is the weapon okay like this? balancing issues? elerium use too high?

EDIT: another updated version...
EDIT2: aaaand another one... the inticon palette is still screwed.

[Roxis231]

Ok - I've instaled the current version - I'll try it tonight and see what happens.

[Falko]

see image your image editor screws the palette .. again
it deletes the first color (0) and shifts all colors by one and creates the last color (255) as black and transparent?

[moriarty]

my fault... again. I apologize for all the trouble, I was using the GIMP again because it's one of the few graphics editors I could run on our (semi-intentionally) crippled computers at work... but now I discovered IcoFX! it's lightweight, portable, obeys palettes (and loads them from .pal files) and has everything I need for pixel editing.


so here's the (hopefully) final version of my mod, with actual working icons. at last.

[LeBashar]

Hello, is anyone know how can I use these icon not for replacing but in addition ? I want to make two plasma weapons :
- the cannon, like this one
- the beam, which could use older icons, with very short range and more power/accuracy (like if the plasma was channeled to shot directly and not shape in a ball).

[moriarty]

Hello, is anyone know how can I use these icon not for replacing but in addition ? I want to make two plasma weapons :
- the cannon, like this one
- the beam, which could use older icons, with very short range and more power/accuracy (like if the plasma was channeled to shot directly and not shape in a ball).

if the plasma cannon is supposed to be additional, all you need to do is change the "sprite" part at the top and the "extraSprites" sections, for example:

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sprite: 15
extraSprites:
  - type: INTICON.PCK
    files:
      20: Resources/MoriartyPlasmaCannon/MoriartyPlasmaCannonInticon.png
  - type: BASEBITS.PCK
    files:
      63: Resources/MoriartyPlasmaCannon/MoriartyPlasmaCannonBasebits.png

the "sprite" part tells the game to use the icon at index "sprite + 5" in INTICON.PCK for the interception screen and the icon at index "sprite + 48" in BASEBITS.PCK for the basescape craft equip screen. of course, you need to change all the names in the ruleset to avoid overwriting other stuff (OR create the other plasma weapon as a different name, like PlasmaBeamWeapon), but I guess you know that part.