Questions here: an inquiry thread! [Updated Sep 15th, 2014]

[RAD-82]

That looks fine.

You will need a second image for the charges. It'll be 2 frames, equivalent in size to the weapon.

Here is an example of a 5-charge weapon that I made for my weapon pack so you can see how the image of your stored charges lines up with your weapon. Mine isn't very traditional with the lights.

[WhiteWeasel]

Now what does this code mean for my charge image?

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<animSheet name="chargerail_charge" w="70" h="57" fw="35" fh="57">weapons/chargerail_charge</animSheet>
<anim name="chargerail_charge">
   <sheet>chargerail_charge</sheet>
   <desc length="4" x="0" y="0"/>
   <time>1.0</time>
</anim>

/Edit: Quadruple post cleanup by moderator.

[NarnKar]

Did you hit "submit" too many times?

[RAD-82]

Now what does this code mean for my charge image?

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<animSheet name="chargerail_charge" w="70" h="57" fw="35" fh="57">weapons/chargerail_charge</animSheet>
<anim name="chargerail_charge">
   <sheet>chargerail_charge</sheet>
   <desc length="4" x="0" y="0"/>
   <time>1.0</time>
</anim>

You need to add .png to the filename.

This is the <boost> in your weaponAnim code.

I would say the desc length should be 2, but the Ion Charger says 4 instead of 3 and it still works, so that part might be ignored in this instance.

[WhiteWeasel]

Did you hit "submit" too many times?

Oops, these forums are really slow on my computer for some reason. So I might have clicked a few extra times because I thought it was being unresponsive.

Now what does this code mean for my charge image?

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<animSheet name="chargerail_charge" w="70" h="57" fw="35" fh="57">weapons/chargerail_charge</animSheet>
<anim name="chargerail_charge">
   <sheet>chargerail_charge</sheet>
   <desc length="4" x="0" y="0"/>
   <time>1.0</time>
</anim>

You need to add .png to the filename.

This is the <boost> in your weaponAnim code.

I would say the desc length should be 2, but the Ion Charger says 4 instead of 3 and it still works, so that part might be ignored in this instance.

Ok. Now I got my weapon working, but the glow won't show up.

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<animSheet name="chargerail_charge" w="280" h="57" fw="35" fh="57">weapons/chargerail_charge.png</animSheet>
<anim name="chargerail_charge">
   <sheet>chargerail_charge</sheet>
   <desc length="2" x="0" y="0"/>
   <time>1.0</time>
</anim>

<animSheet name="chargerail" w="280" h="57" fw="35" fh="57">weapons/chargerail_strip8.png</animSheet>
<weaponAnim name="chargerail">
   <sheet>chargerail</sheet>
   <desc length="8" x="0" y="0"/>
   <chargedFrame>5</chargedFrame>
   <fireFrame>6</fireFrame>
   <firePoint  x="22" y="30" charge="0"/>
   <mountPoint x="2" y="34"/>
   <boost>chargerail_charge</boost>
</weaponAnim>

[RAD-82]

but the glow won't show up.

You changed the width of the glow animation to 280. Switch it back to 70 like it was before and it should work.

[WhiteWeasel]

but the glow won't show up.

You changed the width of the glow animation to 280. Switch it back to 70 like it was before and it should work.

Sweet! It works! I made a legit weapon in FTL, custom sprite and everything!

[WhiteWeasel]

How do you overwrite starting augments for ships?

[stylesrj]

How do you overwrite starting augments for ships?

Blueprints.xml

Look for where the words "Plating" is located and if it's under a ship's blueprints, that's probably the section.

[RAD-82]

How do you overwrite starting augments for ships?

I'm guessing the Stealth A is your issue? I've seen you use SMM's overwrite code for other things, so I assume you are having problems with this ship having two augments.

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<mod:findName type="shipBlueprint" name="PLAYER_SHIP_STEALTH">
   <mod:findLike type="aug"> <mod:removeTag/> </mod:findLike>  <!-- Removes all augments -->
   <mod-append:aug name="{insert augment here}"/>  <!-- Repeat to add more augments -->
</mod:findName>