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Adding new weapon points

How to check existing ones and how many more can be added?

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how can I check how many weapon points an entity has and how many more it can support?

is there a difference accordingly to weapon type, such as beam, missle etc

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting WOEaintME, reply 22


Quoting Dark_Ansem, reply 21

do you know what that "    SynchronizedTargeting FALSE" does?

It determines whether or not all projectiles have a synchronized target. If it's set to false then your weapon can fire on multiple targets (like starbases can) or your weapon will impact different spots on the target (e.g. some of your lasers may hit the front of the target while others will hit the mid or aft section).

That's my understanding of it at least, true means that all weapon particles hit the same specific point, thus eliminating any possible multi targetting. The other thread you were posting in (https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/442694/page/2/#3436831) had much better information than I can provide, or so I would expect.
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From a graphical standpoint, each individual shot will pick random a meshpoint to strike while this is FALSE, whereas all shots will attempt to strike the exact same meshpoint while it is TRUE.

Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Dark_Ansem, reply 25

ah, that is the point that wasn't mentioned before.

an example of units in vanilla sins which can fire on multiple targets per bank?
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  • Ragnarov can fire on two targets with it's left and right banks.
  • Ankylon can fire on multiple targets from all banks.
  • (I'm not going through all the other titans, you get the idea that Titans in general can).
  • Starbases can fire on multiple targets.

Other than those I don't think anything has mutliple targets per bank by default but I could be wrong. Either way, I personally think it looks better if the weapons have a somewhat scattered shot pattern (seeing dozens of weapons hit the same spot somehow feels wrong even with modern advances in fire control systems)

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

I admit I didn't notice titans firing on multiple targets :D