Matthew on 28/6/2005 at 12:03

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Nameless_Voice, if you still need any energy readings etc I should be able to get them from ICE Breaker for you. Lots of lovely tables.

ZylonBane on 28/6/2005 at 14:36

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If y'all would be willing to entertain a possibly heretical thought--

Do we even WANT all these multiple settings? When I was playing the original SS1, I always used the best mode of all my equipment. After all, why would I choose to make myself less protected, or give myself less light to see with? SS1 was an awesome game, but I don't think any of that awesomeness sprang from an interface that even the original developers admitted was over-complicated.

I'd be happy with just a simple on/off key for all these upgrades.

RocketMan on 28/6/2005 at 16:14

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From a rational standpoint sometimes a piece of hardware just needs to be good enough, especially if making it better drains more energy. Then there's the purely personal preference that I and perhaps some others have with features and buttons. I like to have as much control over details as possible...makes the game fun for me.

Nameless_Voice on 28/6/2005 at 21:18

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Agreed. I must admit that I never actually used it in the game, but it was fun all the same.


Ooops, forgot to set the Gun->Weapon Type property to Energy to disable the 'Unload' button. ;)





This is actually how the portable lantern in my Thief 2 demo mission 'NVGizmos' worked. It fired invisible projectiles at a miniscule interval. I think the method I used for the night vision looks better, though. A pity that property isn't availiable in Thief.
But; the head-mounted lantern in SS1 is not a beam, it's a round light aura around the player. This could be done by placing lights around the player like this:

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A flashlight might look better, though. Or even, this combined with a flashlight.


Well, I just tried increasing the number of lights from 9 at 8-unit intervals to 17 at 4-unit intervals. It looks better, and doesn't seem to have crashed anything.


The current security value is stored in the 'SecurityLevel' mission-scope quest variable, which means that a QBTrigger can be used to watch for certain security values. (Not sure if those work the same as in Thief2 in SS2?)
Note that the security level is stored as a value (using the camera=1; node=10 formula), not as a percentage.


All the shield does is add/remove certain metaproperties (namely, M-Shield1, M-Shield2, M-Shield3, and M-Shield4, depending on version and setting). What these metaproperties do is up to you, or whoever can be bothered to add Amplify receptrons for all the stims the shield should block. Have fun working out the multipliers, too. Something like 25%, 50%, 75%, I think. I'm not sure if v4 shield gives you increased protection, or just the lower cost.


I actually had to temporarily reduce the player's physical Mass to stop him from being turned into a red smear on the walls by the Dark Engine's vastly superior (to SS1, anyway) physics system. At one point, I had it reduced to 1.00 (default 180.00), but this would cause him to fly away whenever he was hit by a projectile.


Well, I always ran my Lantern at setting 1 most of the time - it was enough to se by (while sitting in a darkened room), so why use more power?


I think I have nearly all of 'em now, but that would still be useful. Thanks.


I don't think I can access the 'currently selected psi power'.
The hardware does use the Psi points as an indidcator, but the current power levels are actually stored in the Creature->Time Warp property (for no particular reason other than that it' a floating-point property that doesn't affect the player). This is because Psi points are stored as an integer, not a floating-point number.

TF on 28/6/2005 at 22:07

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I'm almost certain Telliamed has a script that can do that. You'd just have to add it to the Crate archetype, and make the crate vulnerable to weapons.

Edit: yeah