How create a research for accuracy ?

[D.Durand]

If i want to add a research "accuracy for missiles". How can i do that ?

[Troman]

Look at "functions.txt" file, it defines all the different 'functions' wz has. For example it has these lines for missiles accuracy upgrades:

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy01,MISSILE,0,10,10,0,0,0,0
Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy02,MISSILE,0,20,20,0,0,0,0

Here's the explaination of the fields:

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So, the two lines from "functions.txt" modify Short Hit Accuracy and Long Hit Accuracy for missiles.
Note that they don't increase accuracy by 10 or 20, they *set* accuracy to those values, so if you want to increase accuracy even further you have to add something like:

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy03,MISSILE,0,30,30,0,0,0,0

Then there's "researchfunctions.txt" file, it has following lines:

R-Wpn-Missile-Accuracy01,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy01,864
R-Wpn-Missile-Accuracy02,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy02,865

It assigns functions to research topics.

R-Wpn-Missile-Accuracy01 and R-Wpn-Missile-Accuracy02 are the actual research topics, as defined in "research.txt" file (you also have to define prerequisite research for them in "prresearch.txt" file).

The only other thing you have to take care of is the name for your new research, it's defined in "names.txt".

That should do it.

[D.Durand]

Thank you very much ! 



Err... If i can abuse you... What is the "Fire Pause" (that's work with the ROF, but...).

And can we have the explaination of the others fields of the file, and for the other files ?

[Troman]

Err... If i can abuse you... What is the "Fire Pause" (that's work with the ROF, but...).

According to the source "Fire Pause" means "Time between each weapon fire".

And can we have the explaination of the others fields of the file, and for the other files ?

Do you have access to the source? Most fields are documented there.

PS: forgot to mention that those values in "functions.txt" are percentual increases of the original weapon values. Like for example

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy02,MISSILE,0,20,20,0,0,0,0

will increase missile accuracy by 20 %.

[DevUrandom]

Now it gets confusing:

Note that they don't increase accuracy by 10 or 20, they *set* accuracy to those values, so if you want to increase accuracy even further you have to add something like:

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy03,MISSILE,0,30,30,0,0,0,0

PS: forgot to mention that those values in "functions.txt" are percentual increases of the original weapon values. Like for example

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy02,MISSILE,0,20,20,0,0,0,0

will increase missile accuracy by 20 %.

Which of them is correct now?

[D.Durand]

According to the source "Fire Pause" means "Time between each weapon fire".

Mmh... I doubt that :

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Rocket-ROF01,ROCKET,20,0,0,0,0,0,0
Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Rocket-ROF02,ROCKET,40,0,0,0,0,0,0

ROF02 can't have a bigger time between each weapon fire than ROF01. And all ROCKET weapons don't have the same base ROF.

Maybe a drecrease in % ?

Do you have access to the source? Most fields are documented there.

PS: forgot to mention that those values in "functions.txt" are percentual increases of the original weapon values. Like for examplewill increase missile accuracy by 20 %.

I have not, but i can try to look at.

[Troman]

Note that they don't increase accuracy by 10 or 20, they *set* accuracy to those values, so if you want to increase accuracy even further you have to add something like:

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy03,MISSILE,0,30,30,0,0,0,0

PS: forgot to mention that those values in "functions.txt" are percentual increases of the original weapon values. Like for example

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Missile-Accuracy02,MISSILE,0,20,20,0,0,0,0

will increase missile accuracy by 20 %.

Now it gets confusing: will increase missile accuracy by 20 %.
Which of them is correct now?

Mmh... I doubt that :

Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Rocket-ROF01,ROCKET,20,0,0,0,0,0,0
Weapon Upgrade,Wpn-Rocket-ROF02,ROCKET,40,0,0,0,0,0,0

ROF02 can't have a bigger time between each weapon fire than ROF01. And all ROCKET weapons don't have the same base ROF.

Maybe a drecrease in % ?

Well everything is correct.
All upgrade values are set and thus increased by further upgrades. All in-game end parameter values are percentually improved which implies a decrease in case of 'Fire Pause'.
Was this less confusing?

I have not, but i can try to look at.

I know it's not piece of cake, but considering the amount of txt files there are it would take quite a while to extract the meaning of all those fields. Although some day we should undoubtfully either convert those files to something more modder-friendly or document them.

[D.Durand]

I think i begin a text file (pdf, i think. I like pdf) with the complete list of prequisite for make (made ?) a mod. Send infos !

[DevUrandom]

We got a wiki...

[D.Durand]

Difficult. English is not my natural language.

[Kamaze]

Difficult. English is not my natural language.

DevUrandoms and my one neither

[DevUrandom]

What I wanted to say is that you can write into our wiki. No need to create a PDF file. There is little benefit in creating a PDF instead of writing into the wiki, in my opionion...

[D.Durand]

Ok, i can try.

[Watermelon]

Well everything is correct.
All upgrade values are set and thus increased by further upgrades. All in-game end parameter values are percentually improved which implies a decrease in case of 'Fire Pause'.
Was this less confusing?

I know it's not piece of cake, but considering the amount of txt files there are it would take quite a while to extract the meaning of all those fields. Although some day we should undoubtfully either convert those files to something more modder-friendly or document them.

check this out:
https://mail.gna.org/public/warzone-dev ... 00216.html

[DevUrandom]

Even the sourcecode of that statsconverter is a great source of documentation.