OK, I was trying to make an area cloak outfit a few minutes ago. Specifically, one that's both an area cloak and has the "fast fading" thing activated. According to the Nova Bible, I needed to enter 1001 in the ModVal field. I think. I wasn't sure, so I looked at the cloaking organs in the default scenario in MissionComputer, but this really confused me, because they had values over ( in the v.1.0, I think) 2000, which shouldn't be possible. So, how would I make my outfit? Was I right the first time? Help!

(Edit)Update: I tested the 1001 setup, and it just drained fuel. How do I get it to be an area cloak?(/Edit)

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(This message has been edited by froggy (edited 04-08-2004).)

There is some sort of caculator that lets you add up the numbers to get the ones used by Nova. I don't know where to find it, though I think there was a post about it here recently.

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The thing with those is that, while the instructions are in hexadecimal, the thing that you put in the field is in decimal, so you have to convert. 0x10=16, 0x100=1616=256, 0x1000=161616=4096, and so on, so 0x1001 = 0x1000 + 0x1 = 4096 + 1 = 4097. Don't carry "digits" when they're > 10; just keep them around (10=a, 11=b, ... , 15=f). For example, suppose I want a cloak that has fast fade (0x01), vis on radar (0x02), disable on damage (0x08), and is an area cloak (0x1000). I'd add all these up and get (1+2+8) * 0x01 + 0x1000 = 11 * 0x01 + 0x1000 = 1116 + 4096 = 4272. There's more to hex than this, but this should be all you need for making a cloaking device.

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EDIT: Nevermind.

(This message has been edited by orcaloverbri9 (edited 04-09-2004).)

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks!

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