Ion Cannon...?

Heboy · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 20 Jan 2003

hey, sorry but i also posted this in another area before i saw this place. anyways, i know there has been some heated debate within the community on whether the ion cannon can be added or not. what i want to know is:
1. can it be added (not emulated, cuz i know that's possible)?
2. if so, can someone please attach the rules entries and such?

here i will list my successes as i have come close to adding it in. i downloaded the group of files that psycho at the deezire forums posted and have tried to get them to work. i have the icon, the countdown, and the cursor for where i am aiming working. the only thing that doesn't work is the beam itself.

ArgCmdr · Soldier **Joined**: 01 Dec 2002 **Location**: Hiigara

There is no way to add the Ion Cannon but replace by now to RA2.

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Heboy · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 20 Jan 2003

really? wow, that sucks, guess i'll just emulate it then.

Banshee · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 2:22 am Post subject:

Yea, and we are researching it here... initially for TS, but we will expand the research for RA2 if it works. If you wanna more info about it, check the Superweapon Emulation Researchs topic...

Heboy · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 20 Jan 2003

yea, i've almost got the emulation complete. i got the weapon working and everything, except the only problem is that the beam doesn't travel the way i want it to. it makes this huge column of blue fly to it's target instead of coming down from the sky. also, i gave the weapon a range of -2 so it would be infinate range. there's a problem though, when i press ctrl to bring up the force fire i can aim anywhere, but the beam only travels a fraction of the way there. anyone know the problem or have any ideas?

Banshee · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 1:35 am Post subject:

Do you have the charging animation done? If yes, help us sharing it, please...

Heboy · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 20 Jan 2003

alright, my emulated ion cannon works almost perfectly. the beam itself looks really bad since there's no animation of it coming down to earth it only lasts for half a sec if that. does anyone have a longer ion beam animation? also, is there a way to make the timer appear at the bottom of the screen?

Banshee · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject:

just resize the ion beam from TS...

Heboy · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 20 Jan 2003

hmmm...and that would be done how? also, no i don't have the charging anime done and i also have no idea what you're talking about. by charging anime do you mean the blue "circle" that shows the progress of the weapon being charged?

Banshee · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:27 am Post subject:

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by charging anime do you mean the blue "circle" that shows the progress of the weapon being charged?

- Exactly. Yet, it's not necessarily blue, can be green or whatever colour you want...

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hmmm...and that would be done how?

- Get the ionbeam animation, right click it and select resize. You may need to test several values, but make sure you have a backup of the original picture.

Allied773 · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 12:23 am Post subject:

ArgCmdr wrote:

There is no way to add the Ion Cannon but replace by now to RA2.

actually u can ...all u need is to use UN used actions...
goto deezire.net 's forum to find how

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Banshee · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 1:29 am Post subject:

Not only actions. You also need new types, otherwise you will have clones of other weapons, but not your own. However, types of superweapons are hard coded and limited.

Allied773 · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 1:39 am Post subject:

yes i believe that Super weapons are the hardest thing to mod

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Guest · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 4:52 pm Post subject:

hey you favourite spy discovered that :

It's a french mod, the webmaster is in my MSN list (i don't know if he talks english to help you) but take a look of the third screenshot, he makes a Ion cannon

http://www.gunyar.freesurf.fr/screenshots.htm

look the third screenshot (he also created a new univers, in space Smile

)

I hope that can help you, i can talk with him to ask about your problems, and he will give you the code probably Smile

EDIT: he have also icq

Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

also on deezire i found a tutorial on changing the genetic mutator into an ion cannon -
http://online.deezire.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=682&highlight=ion+cannon

Banshee · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject:

But you can only change it or make exact clones of it. You can't make your own new targetable sw without any sort of limits... that's my point... modifications of metheor storm into Ion Cannon or Genetic Mutator into Ion Cannon are already old knowledge...

Guest · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 5:28 pm Post subject:

Ok i speak to the french modder, here is what he says (but he don't remember exactly ...

He changed the sovietique rocket by the ion canon, by add a new code named "CI2" (he be inspired by psychik dom from Yuri)

he cannot explain more because he don't have the time and he have to remember how to ...

But globaly it's an animation with "warhead"

tecnofreak · Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 5:45 pm Post subject:

I think i found a way to add the ion cannon without emulation....i'll tell more later!

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Allied773 · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:12 pm Post subject:

well look at he bright side. Generals will have the partical beam. and to me..every high powerd beam is an ion cannon Laughing

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Axle R. · Medic **Joined**: 09 Dec 2002

I preordered the game and this one store at the mall is holding on to it for me, until I get paid this weekend, anyone know exactly how much they gave for their copy, oh and uh sorry to disappoint you TF, but all he did was replace the two Psychic Dominator animations with the chrono beam and the old Ring1 anim. almost everybody knows how to do that.

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Jah · Commander **Joined**: 23 Nov 2002

You can do is from genmutor also - just change anim and warhead. there will be no shake, but you will have no need to change colour in every map.

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Mike · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 12:39 pm Post subject:

I don't know for sure but i thought RA2&YR had also the old ts Actions and Types.
Try those, It might work Smile

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Banshee · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 3:13 pm Post subject:

most (if not all) of their logic was removed from RA2YR.. but give it a try...