SS2 Coloured Laser Rapiers All-in-One

[67428c0f7d544GuyFawkesGaming]

Deu sex  I was just about to edit my post that I got it working by dropping the following in a gamesys.dml and dropping that in the SCP beta 4 folder.

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//drop SelfLit onto rapiers already placed in levels
ObjProp -24 "Scripts"
{
"Script 0" NVRemovePropertyTrap
}
+ObjProp -24 "ObjList"
{
"" NVRemovePropertyTrapOn="BeginScript"; NVRemovePropertyTrapProp="SelfLit"; NVRemovePropertyTrapReAdd=1; NVRemovePropertyTrapCount=1;
}

+ObjProp -24 "SelfLitRad" //Electro Shock
{
    "" 30
}

+ObjProp -24 "AnimLight" //Electro Shock
{
    "Mode" "slide smoothly"
    "min brightness" 160
    "max brightness" 280
    "millisecs to brighten" 1400
    "millisecs to dim" 1000
    "Dynamic Light" true
}Note that I've only tested console command spawned rapiers.

[67428c0f7d6e2Deu sex]

yep, sadly I didn't see any pre-spawned rapiers having the parameters, however rapiers that spawn in enemies like in the rapier assasin mod do have the correct parameters

160 280 is a pretty big difference! that must do a pretty big wave of energy!

[67428c0f7d838ZylonBane]

A properly-functioning laser rapier wouldn't have any "waves" of energy at all. It would maintain a constant, steady energy output.

[67428c0f7d92dGuyFawkesGaming]

You know, something I just thought of; how difficult would it be to transplant the arm model from the Tacticool wrench onto the vanilla laser rapier (and perhaps even Rocketman's shard)?

[67428c0f7da9dvoodoo47]

not amazingly difficult, probably, @Olfred did manage to edit a melee weapon mesh for the xmas mod.

[67428c0f7dd68Olfred]

I did something similiar almost a decade ago.
The real problem isn't transplanting the arm to the model, but to get the model to properly work again.
If there is any interest I could dig up my old files again, it should be easy enough to throw the original rapier in again.

[67428c0f7dfebGuyFawkesGaming]

OlfredI'd be interested, though I don't speak for everybody.

[67428c0f7e394sarge945]

A properly-functioning laser rapier wouldn't have any "waves" of energy at all. It would maintain a constant, steady energy output.

Objection your honor, rule of cool

[67428c0f7e61cGuyFawkesGaming]

Objection your honor, rule of cool

Well that plus energy DOES have waves.

[67428c0f7e755Deu sex]

I wonder if it's possible to use the refraction heat particles around the rapier, that would look crazy good, at least in theory.
Any genius can create a minimod that adds them?

[67428c0f7e98esarge945]

I wonder if it's possible to use the refraction heat particles around the rapier, that would look crazy good, at least in theory.
Any genius can create a minimod that adds them?

Does the engine even support refractions?

[67428c0f7ec00Deu sex]

sarge945
https://i.ibb.co/8X3MssV/SS2-2022-05-12-10-46-57.png
https://i.ibb.co/RYC9y2Y/SS2-2022-05-12-10-56-38.png

yes (even though it's hard to see on a still image)

[67428c0f7ee69RoSoDude]

SCP makes good use of NewDark's heat disk refraction feature in the Command deck (more info here):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIgAbPoECl0

[67428c0f7f077Olfred]

GuyFawkesGamingSorry for being late, I'm quite busy at the moment.
Here is the blender file for the rapier model.
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[67428c0f7f2a0GuyFawkesGaming]

OlfredCool! Sorry for only noticing this now. Unfortunately I can't view it myself since I don't have blender installed, but I presume it looks just like the pic from the thread you linked.

[67428c0f7f3a7sarge945]

So I should be free to get back to this on the weekend. What should I add? I'm not sure everyone will like the refraction effect. Maybe I will make it optional.

[67428c0f7f4c2Deu sex]

Oh yes if you can make it optional that would be perfect, I'm still conflicted on how the refraction should be handled, would it be better if heat particles only stayed attached to the rapier, or if some stays attached and others not so that it would do some kind of heat trail effect when you move or swing the sword.

[67428c0f7f5cfsarge945]

Okay so I really dropped the ball on this one

There's a new RSD out so I might play around with getting this patched up while testing the new version

[67428c0f7f7a9sarge945]

I had another look at this and have made a pretty significant breakthrough.

I implemented the pulsating colour effect from earlier in this thread, plus, not only do rapiers now update correctly, including ones placed in the map, I have also created an All-In-One package, which will randomize the colour of rapiers when they spawn. Why pick a colour when you can have all of them?

I have tested this, but not thoroughly. I eagerly await feedback!

Please note that the archive contains a docs folder which explains how to add new rapier colours, as well as how to disable certain colours that you don't like. Disabling a colour is an easy, straightfoward 1 line change, and is explained step-by-step in the included documents, so it should be relatively easy for even inexperienced computer users or non-programmers to change.

If anyone wants to create any more rapier colours, I would be glad to include them (and credit you as the creator of those rapiers). No modelling skill is required, only texturing, which can be done in GIMP. A text editor is also required, I recommend Notepad++.

Please note that because these use dynamic lights, trying to "catch-em-all" and creating a large collection of laser rapiers could cause graphical issues, since Dark has a limit on the number of dynamic lights that can be created.


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[67428c0f7faaevoodoo47]

Dark has a limit on the number of dynamic lights that can be created

32, so you'll be fine unless you spawn them en masse via the console.

[67428c0f7fcffsarge945]

32, so you'll be fine unless you spawn them en masse via the console.

Yeah you're probably right. I don't know if rapier assassins drop usable rapiers (I don't use those mods), but if someone starts hoarding rapiers for whatever reason, they could run into issues.

In vanilla, there's only like 3 or 4 rapiers in the whole game I think, so it's not a big problem.

[67428c0f7fdf9ZylonBane]

(looks at code)

Haven't discovered arrays yet, have you?

[67428c0f8009csarge945]

(looks at code)

Haven't discovered arrays yet, have you?

A-Ray? You mean like one of these?

Actually seriously though, yeah that was a pretty major derp on my part. I basically spent so long hacking this together and getting it barely working (with lots of issues at the time), that I never even considered cleaning it up - brain was goo by that point and I was just happy to get the damn thing done and released, even with it being horrible.

I originally thought squirrel arrays were like C arrays (limited entirely to one type) and abandoned them because of the "sometimes you want values and sometimes you don't" aspect of this and put it in the too hard basket. That's obviously not an issue here since squirrel is weakly typed and allows values of multiple types within arrays.

Despite the snarky response, and it pains me to say this, you're completely correct, arrays are a good fit for this. I feel stupid for not even considering using one. I have uploaded a MUCH neater version.

[67428c0f80275sarge945]

I fixed a bug where the Rapier was inheriting the Energy Weapons script from it's parent. I also made white and black rapiers half as likely to appear, since they look strange and are generally weirder and more niche. As a result of this, each rapier colour can now have it's individual chance to appear adjusted! Got a favourite that you like more than the rest, but want to still see the others? Bump it's chance up!

I find it odd and annoying that we are hard limited to 4 script slots and thanks to Dont Inherit being true we can't add more via metaprops.

In some ways I wish the EnergyWeapon script was detached from the Energy (-14) archetype and instead attached to each of the energy weapon archetypes through a metaprop, then we could get access to more script slots on the rapier by using metaprops. Because of this quirk, this mod currently has an incompatiblity with SS2-RSD because that mod uses all 4 script slots on the rapier.

Here's what happens when I deliberately mess with the chance values...

UPDATE: Thanks @RoSoDude for the RSD Update. This is now compatible again with Version 8 Beta 12 (hotfixed today) and should remain compatible going forward.

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