Shields

[Dan1025]

I posted about that a while ago:

Yeah they've already confirmed that a future version of the patch project will inlcude an ODF command for specific shields, I think it's "ShieldHit = ". You just put that into any ship or station ODF and add the name of a SOD based effect and that'll become that units shield effect

As you said Majestic this feature will no doubt be used to improve mods

 

[Majestic]

Thanks Dan must've missed that post of yours, indeed YY will take advantage of that as I am sure nearly every A2 mod will.

 

[Dan1025]

Hopefully someone will make a tutorial on how to make custom shield effects (not an easy thing to do) so we can use the patch project to its potential.

 

[SquireJames]

Wow, thread necromancy

Thanks Dan must've missed that post of yours, indeed YY will take advantage of that as I am sure nearly every A2 mod will.

That is assuming they fix the bugs that prevent some of us "ahem!" from using said patch

 

[Majestic]

Thats true that some have had rather nasty side effects from the patch that is a added reason why I am making it so that the patch doesn't have to be installed for the mod to work and I am also using features like the buildnumber limit and the shield (when it comes out) command.

Without the patch the game will simply ignore those lines in the odf I have alread tested it with the buildnumber command and it works.

 

[SquireJames]

Indeed, unfortunately things like carriers don't work when you remove the patch.