Anyone tried this build-in Shield before?

HW_Lover · May 17, 2021, 10:46am

For EMP there is a shield added in .ship files as follows:
addShield(NewShipType, “EMP”, 10000, 20)

But there’s also another shield type as follows:
addShield(NewShipType, “Bullet”, 10000, 20)

If you add this into .ship file, the ship seems to have a shield. You just can’t see the healthbar so you don’t konw how much energy it left, but it actually works because the ship starts to take damage until it has been attacked for a period of time.

Now I just need to make the shield healthbar show itself .

Dom2 · May 17, 2021, 10:51am

Wow, that’s interesting. I assumed the shield was only valid with “EMP”…

HW_Lover · May 17, 2021, 11:11am

That’s what I was thinking for years, until I took a look at HomeworldRM.exe

Dom2 · May 17, 2021, 11:32am

Are there other values, out just “EMP” and “bullet”?

HW_Lover · May 17, 2021, 12:46pm

Didn’t find others.

Nathanius · May 18, 2021, 3:35am

Is there any visible effect?
Does it only negate damage from “bullets”?

HW_Lover · May 18, 2021, 4:11am

No visible effect, I think the EMP/Bullet here and Disable/DamageHealth in AddWeaponResult are homologous.

sastrei · May 19, 2021, 8:25pm

Have you tried changing the “healthbarstyle” property to see if a different value shows the bullet shield?

Bings · May 24, 2021, 7:20am

Were you able to find a way to display the shield value in the end out of interest?

Bings · May 24, 2021, 7:24am

It seem 0 just shrinks the health bar + 1 and 2 looks the same

Bings · May 24, 2021, 4:38pm

very happy noises

https://i.imgur.com/Lb8l8fY.gif(image larger than 4096KB)

Still need to work out a way to display the shields health - if that’s even possible. To work out if the shield goes down I’m just checking if the HP starts dropping. I tried checking if the ship’s HP goes above 1 - but it doesn’t

function ssc_ShieldRule(tShip, tShipSOB)
  if (tShip.iShieldStatus == 1) then -- if shield is online
    if (SobGroup_HealthPercentage(tShipSOB) < tShip.fLastShieldHP) then -- shield going offline
      SobGroup_SetMadState(tShipSOB, "HyperspaceGateDeActivate") -- do shield offline animation
      tShip.iShieldStatus = 0
    end
  else -- if shields are offline
    --handle this lol
  end

  tShip.fLastShieldHP = SobGroup_HealthPercentage(tShipSOB)
end

The ship has

addShield(NewShipType, "Bullet", 50000, 20)

The weapon looks like (still need to set it up for different penetrations):

StartWeaponConfig(NewWeaponType, "AnimatedTurret", "InstantHit", "asgard_plasmabeam", "Special Attack", 0, 6000, 0, 1.5, 0, 0, 5, 1, 0, 3.4, 0, 0, 1, 1, 60, 60, 0, "Normal", 1, 0, 300)

AddWeaponResult(NewWeaponType, "Hit", "DamageHealth", "Target", 1000, 1000, "")

setAccuracy(NewWeaponType, 1)
setAngles(NewWeaponType, 0, -80, 80, -25, 85)
setPenetration(NewWeaponType, 0, 0,
  {LightArmour = 0},
  {MediumArmour = 0},
  {HeavyArmour = 1},
  {ShieldArmour = 0},
  {SubSystemArmour = 0},
  {Unarmoured = 0},
  {PlanetKillerArmour = 0}
)