Help with my weapon?

[NarnKar]

I'm at my wit's end trying to debug this thing. I really can't see any problems with it, and yet, it refuses to work! It just shows up as the debug 0 power basic laser that fires nothing.

The end goal is for ASB_ARTILLERY_A and ASB_ARTILLERY_B to be artillery weapons (specifically, Anti-Ship Batteries). Because of a weird glitch with multiple Artillery systems, upgrading the first (and only upgradeable) Artillery system doesn't confer any additional benefits, so I changed the Artillery's upgrade levels to be super high, so no one would try to upgrade them. However, as of now, I've just added them as normal weapons onto TaxiService's Testrel, and they don't work.

blueprints.xml.append

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<systemBlueprint name="artillery">
   <type>artillery</type>
   <title>Artillery</title>
   <!-- dummy text. will steal from whatever weapon blueprint it uses-->
   <desc>Powers a slow, high-powered beam that pierces all shields and does one damage per room hit. More power means faster cooldown.</desc>
   <!-- dummy text. will steal from whatever weapon blueprint it uses-->
   <startPower>2</startPower>
   <maxPower>4</maxPower>
   <rarity>0</rarity>
   <upgradeCost>
      <level>999</level>
      <!-- level 2 -->
      <level>999</level>
      <!-- level 3 -->
      <level>999</level>
      <!-- level 4 -->
   </upgradeCost>
   <!-- hopefully this works, and prevents anyone from upgrading the artillery in vain-->
   <cost>150</cost>
</systemBlueprint>

<weaponBlueprint name="ASB_ARTILLERY_A">
   <type>LASER</type>
   <tip>tip_laser</tip>
   <title>ASB Artillery</title>
   <short>ASB</short>
   <desc>An Anti-Ship Battery. Each shot deals 3 damage and pierces all shields, with a guaranteed breach; however, one gun is defective, and always leeches power.</desc>
   <tooltip>Shouldn't see this.</tooltip>
   <damage>3</damage>
   <shots>1</shots>
   <stunChance>3</stunChance>
   <sp>5</sp>
   <fireChance>3</fireChance>
   <breachChance>10</breachChance>
   <cooldown>25</cooldown>
   <power>1</power>
   <cost>55</cost>
   <bp>6</bp>
   <rarity>0</rarity>
   <image>asb_shot</image>
   <explosion>ba_explosion_laser_hit_heavy</explosion>
   <launchSounds>
      <sound>heavyLaser1</sound>
      <sound>heavyLaser2</sound>
      <sound>heavyLaser3</sound>
   </launchSounds>
   <hitShipSounds>
      <sound>hitHull1</sound>
   </hitShipSounds>
   <hitShieldSounds>
      <sound>hitShield1</sound>
      <sound>hitShield2</sound>
      <sound>hitShield3</sound>
   </hitShieldSounds>
   <missSounds>
      <sound>miss</sound>
   </missSounds>
   <weaponArt>asb_artillery_a</weaponArt>
</weaponBlueprint>

<weaponBlueprint name="ASB_ARTILLERY_B">
   <type>LASER</type>
   <tip>tip_laser</tip>
   <title>ASB Artillery</title>
   <short>ASB</short>
   <desc>An Anti-Ship Battery. Each shot deals 3 damage and pierces all shields, with a guaranteed breach; however, one gun is defective, and always leeches power.</desc>
   <tooltip>Shouldn't see this.</tooltip>
   <damage>3</damage>
   <shots>1</shots>
   <stunChance>3</stunChance>
   <sp>5</sp>
   <fireChance>3</fireChance>
   <breachChance>10</breachChance>
   <cooldown>25</cooldown>
   <power>1</power>
   <cost>55</cost>
   <bp>6</bp>
   <rarity>0</rarity>
   <image>asb_shot</image>
   <explosion>ba_explosion_laser_hit_heavy</explosion>
   <launchSounds>
      <sound>heavyLaser1</sound>
      <sound>heavyLaser2</sound>
      <sound>heavyLaser3</sound>
   </launchSounds>
   <hitShipSounds>
      <sound>hitHull1</sound>
   </hitShipSounds>
   <hitShieldSounds>
      <sound>hitShield1</sound>
      <sound>hitShield2</sound>
      <sound>hitShield3</sound>
   </hitShieldSounds>
   <missSounds>
      <sound>miss</sound>
   </missSounds>
   <weaponArt>asb_artillery_b</weaponArt>
</weaponBlueprint>

animations.xml.append

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<animSheet name="asb_shot" w="371" h="216" fw="371" fh="216">weapons/asb_shot_strip1.png</animSheet>
<anim name="asb_shot">
   <sheet>asb_shot</sheet>
   <desc length="1" x="0" y="0" />
   <time>0.5</time>
</anim>

<animSheet name="asb_artillery_a" w="410" h="202" fw="41" fh="202">weapons/asb_artillery_a_strip10.png</animSheet>
<weaponAnim name="asb_artillery_a">
   <sheet>asb_artillery_a</sheet>
   <desc length="10" x="0" y="0" />
   <chargedFrame>5</chargedFrame>
   <fireFrame>7</fireFrame>
   <firePoint x="19" y="4" />
   <mountPoint x="0" y="141" />
</weaponAnim>

<animSheet name="asb_artillery_b" w="410" h="202" fw="41" fh="202">weapons/asb_artillery_b_strip10.png</animSheet>
<weaponAnim name="asb_artillery_b">
   <sheet>asb_artillery_b</sheet>
   <desc length="10" x="0" y="0" />
   <chargedFrame>5</chargedFrame>
   <fireFrame>7</fireFrame>
   <firePoint x="19" y="4" />
   <mountPoint x="0" y="141" />
</weaponAnim>

asb_artillery_a_strip10.png


asb_artillery_b_strip10.png


asb_shot

asb_shot is a custom bullet animation for the gun. It's adapted from ASB #1, on Scooterbaga's "replacers for many of the things" visual polish mod.

[NarnKar]

Turns out I was just a dumbass and forgot to patch the Custom Content Patch, and the Testrel called some other weapons I hadn't modded in yet. How do I delete threads?

[Sleeper Service]

By the way: Animated artillery weapons will disappear during jump animations. That will look pretty weird if the guns make up a large part of your ship hull. Sorry.

[NarnKar]

Oh, now you tell me. (jkjk)

Yeah those guns are probably gonna vanish. They look kinda weird in Superluminal too, since the shield is overlaid on the weapons, but the main hull is overlaid over the shields.

Uh, chalk it up to "don't put land turrets on a spaceship", and "this is why you never see the Rebel ASB cruisers, because they take so long to set up their ASBs after putting them away for FTL jump"

[NewAgeOfPower]

You can solve the dissapearing artillery problem (somewhat) by pasting a semi-transparent version of Frame Zero of your artillery on your ship.