Sg_missile_swarm_count

[Bobucles]

I have this line in
addon\types\Globals.txt

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// 123
SG_MISSILE_SWARM_COUNT;3;		// number of missiles in a swarm

It doesn't seem to have any impact on the game. Does it need to be in a certain spot in the file?

[Jack08]

Everything in TGlobals is line dependent, moving any values position would end badly.


The value should change the amount of missilse that are launched when a sawm missile is launched, if its not working mabye the value isnt active?

[EmperorJon]

Well AFAIK every swarm missile in the vanilla game launches 8, so maybe it's unused?

[Gazz]

It was planned but does not work.

The SWARM PCT does work.
At 8 (%), each individual swarm missile of the SG_HEAVY class has 8 % of it's regular 7000 hit points.

[Shimrod]

Some related questions.

In the executable I see strings such as SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_HEAVY, however when I extracted globals.txt I saw no entry for it.

Am I correct then in thinking that values in globals.txt are not exhaustive, and where specified they override default values otherwise hardcoded in the executable?

If a constant is not in globals.txt, how might I find out its default value? I tried running the 'get global parameter value' command on SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_HEAVY, but it only returned the value supplied in the 'default' parameter.

[Gazz]

In the executable I see strings such as SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_HEAVY, however when I extracted globals.txt I saw no entry for it.

MAXHULL_MISSILE = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE, 5);
MAXHULL_MISSILE_AF = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_AF, MAXHULL_MISSILE);
MAXHULL_MISSILE_KHAAK = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_KHAAK, MAXHULL_MISSILE);
MAXHULL_MISSILE_DMBF = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_DMBF, MAXHULL_MISSILE);
MAXHULL_MISSILE_BOMBER = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_BOMBER, 3000);
MAXHULL_MISSILE_LIGHT = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_LIGHT, MAXHULL_MISSILE);
MAXHULL_MISSILE_MEDIUM = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_MEDIUM, MAXHULL_MISSILE);
MAXHULL_MISSILE_HEAVY = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_HEAVY, 3000);
MAXHULL_TORPEDO = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_TORPEDO, 7000);
MAXHULL_BOARDINGPOD = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_BOARDINGPOD, 15000);
MAXHULL_MISSILE_SWARMPCT = SectorBase->SA_GetGlobalParameter(SG_MAXHULL_MISSILE_SWARMPCT, 8);

These are the default for unstated values.
They were supposed to get documented... eventually.


PS: It's very likely that SG_MISSILE_SWARM_COUNT is going to work soon™.

[Bobucles]

Everything in TGlobals is line dependent, moving any values position would end badly.

Uh oh. Where am I supposed to put this block?

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MAXHULL_MISSILE;1000; // Default for all unlisted ones
MAXHULL_MISSILE_DMBF;20000;
MAXHULL_MISSILE_LIGHT;400;
MAXHULL_MISSILE_MEDIUM;1000;
MAXHULL_MISSILE_HEAVY;10000; // Hornet, Typhoon, Firestorm
MAXHULL_MISSILE_BOMBER;20000; // Phantom, Tomahawk
MAXHULL_TORPEDO;40000; // M7M Torpedos
MAXHULL_MISSILE_AF;100; // M7M anti fighter
MAXHULL_MISSILE_KHAAK;200;
MAXHULL_BOARDINGPOD;50000;
MAXHULL_MISSILE_SWARMPCT;50; // Each swarm missile has 8% of nominal hull

I'm guessing I should also modify the first value (which seems to list the # of lines)?

It was planned but does not work.

The SWARM PCT does work.
At 8 (%), each individual swarm missile of the SG_HEAVY class has 8 % of it's regular 7000 hit points.

Ah nuts. I was hoping to make them less swarmy so they'd be easier to stop. Back to the drawing board with that.

[Gazz]

Everything in TGlobals is line dependent, moving any values position would end badly.

Have you tried?