Heat Seaking Missile

Eegras Studios

Im working on my own little expansion for nova and i was wondering if you can do a Heat Seeking Missile. One where you dont target anything and it flys towards the nearest hostile.

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Guy

Sure, you can make a homing weapon which quickly submunitions into another one and check the flag that says "Submunitions fire toward nearest valid target".

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Eugene Chin

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**Originally posted by Guy:
Sure, you can make a homing weapon which quickly submunitions into another one and check the flag that says "Submunitions fire toward nearest valid target"
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Except that it doesn't work quite like that. I tried it once.

I've got a (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/004783.html")link(/url) to that topic.

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(This message has been edited by Eugene Chin (edited 08-21-2004).)

Guy

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Originally posted by Eugene Chin:
**Except that it doesn't work quite like that. I tried it once.

I've got a link to that topic.

**

What if the carrier weapon isn't homing but the submunition is?

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what_is_the_matrix

It's funny, reading that old topic. Entarus' "They're probably not going to get to a 1.0.7..." bit.

Here's an interesting question: what happens if the submunition can only damage planets?

Matrix

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Eugene Chin

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Originally posted by Guy:
**What if the carrier weapon isn't homing but the submunition is?
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That's mentioned in the same topic. It causes an effect that Uncle Twicthy was very interested in.

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Guy

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Originally posted by Eugene Chin:
**That's mentioned in the same topic. It causes an effect that Uncle Twicthy was very interested in.

**

Okay, so if you just have a homing weapon which submunitions once into another homing weapon with the "fire toward nearest valid target" flag, how would it behave? If the player has a target selected, it will still follow that target, yes? But what if the player has no target. Won't the submunition pick a target and home in on it?

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Ace3

Hey eugene doies your seeker plugstill work because I can't get it to download.

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Eugene Chin

Hmm... I asked Krypt-tokh6 to host that for me ten months ago. If his hosting situation has changed since, that would explain it.

I should look into getting the file onto the Addon's page.

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Ace3

Ok thanks I'll look for it. Does anyone know if the add-ons page is fixed? Never mind I'll go look myself.

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Eugene Chin

Alright, I just remembered that pipeline mentioned something was wrong with the ftp servers.

I wasn't able to upload the plug-in. I'll try again when they aren't acting up.

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mrxak

I can host it for a little while if you'd like.

Eugene Chin

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**I can host it for a little while if you'd like.

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Then I'll e-mail it to you.

(Edit) Hold on, I'm just noticing a problem with the archiving. The creator data gets messed up.

The resources come through fine though. I can try to fix the problem on my end, or, if you want, I can just send the file.

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(This message has been edited by Eugene Chin (edited 08-23-2004).)

mrxak

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Originally posted by Eugene Chin:
**Then I'll e-mail it to you.

(Edit) Hold on, I'm just noticing a problem with the archiving. The creator data gets messed up.

The resources come through fine though. I can try to fix the problem on my end, or, if you want, I can just send the file.

**

Entirely up to you.

Ace3

Thanks you guys for the assist.

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Ace3

Is it up yet if so where?

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Weepul 884

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Originally posted by Guy:
**Okay, so if you just have a homing weapon which submunitions once into another homing weapon with the "fire toward nearest valid target" flag, how would it behave? If the player has a target selected, it will still follow that target, yes? But what if the player has no target. Won't the submunition pick a target and home in on it?
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Add one more stage of submunitioning before the final seeking projectile, and it'll randomly select any ship in the system...hostile or not.

At least, it does in EVN 1.0.6. I don't know if it changed in some revision since, well, I haven't downloaded any updates since then yet.

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Guy

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Originally posted by Weepul 884:
**Add one more stage of submunitioning before the final seeking projectile, and it'll randomly select any ship in the system...hostile or not.

At least, it does in EVN 1.0.6. I don't know if it changed in some revision since, well, I haven't downloaded any updates since then yet.
**

Why is another stage needed? What's stopping it from working the way I mentioned?

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Whurp

Bugs, probably. Go bug Matt about that one.

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Eugene Chin

Technically, it is working. For most guided weapons, the only target it can hit is the initial target, unless specified otherwise (I need to see what effect this has on the weapon). Each submunition is aimed at the parent munition's target. That's why the weapon can track after a cloaked target.

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