odf editing

posted on March 8th, 2010, 11:22 pm

I think I have the basics down but earlier. I was trying to give the fed/klingon and both mayson and risner defiant class cloaking and change the fed/romulan defiant to supreme cloak. I'm assuming there's more to it than just copying and pasting the  fed/romulan    weapon6 = "fed_cloak"  line into the other defiant odf's  so what am i not doing right?

posted on March 8th, 2010, 11:42 pm

there's another line underneath it that goes weaponhardpoints6 = "root"

and you need it to work.  I think thats all you need

posted on March 8th, 2010, 11:47 pm

k ill try that thnks

posted on March 9th, 2010, 1:21 am

that did work now i just have to edit Every defiant odf and theres a lot of them...  and need to find what the Supreme cloak is called....

posted on March 11th, 2010, 6:40 am

new problem  I am trying to give the Galaxy and the Sovie cloaking ability when they reach the 2 gold bars ranking but its not working.

posted on March 12th, 2010, 2:33 am

what exactly isn't working? does it not show up or doesn't do anything when you press it?  As much info as possible is always appreciated when asking for help

I haven't tested putting Cloak on a Galaxy or Sovereign but I have tested adding it to the first available ship, the Sabre.  I simply copied weapon and weaponhardpoints lines for the cloak from the Klingon B'rel, added as weapon4 on the 4 variations of the Sabre and added the lines maxspecialenergy = 30 specialenergyrate = 2.0 as the Sabre doesn't have them.  The Galaxy does not have the special energy lines either, so make sure to add them to the Galaxy or the Cloak is useless.

The Galaxy and Sovereign both have 2 variations so make sure to add the cloak to both, so you would need to add [weapon7 = "Kli_Cloak"] and [weaponhardpoints7 = "root"] to "fed_galaxyr5.odf" and "fed_galaxyMr5.odf".  It would be a good idea to add the cloak to the veteran level as well, or the ship will loose ability to cloak when you ascend them to veteran (unless you want it like that), so add the same lines to "fed_galaxyr6.odf" and "fed_galaxyMr6.odf", and change the weapon numbers to from 7 to 6 on the veterans for good measure .
The Sovereign has special energy lines already, so that shouldn't be a problem, just add the lines [weapon6 = "Kli_Cloak"] and [weaponhardpoints6 = "root"] to "fed_sovereignr5.odf" and "fed_sovereignYr5.odf, then to the veterans "fed_sovereignr6.odf" and "fed_sovereignYr6.odf", changing the weapon number on the veterans from 6 to 5 for good measure

Hopefully after doing this you will have a Cloaking device equivalent to the Klingon B'rel on both the Galaxy and Sovereign after they reach 2 gold bars and Veteran.

posted on March 12th, 2010, 2:44 am

You could upload the odf as an attachment, and then people like Vorsath will be able to pinpoint what your trouble is exactly.

posted on March 12th, 2010, 2:49 am

Aye, like Vorsath said:

 Every ship capable of ranking up has it's own ship ODF per rank.  Beyond that, if it has an ability that in any way changes the permanent stats of the vessel, it gets another "version" usually denoted by the extra letter "M" in the ODF name.

fed_galaxy  ---- is the normal Galaxy at it's first rank.

fed_galaxyM --- is the Galaxy at 1st rank with it's Type-3 Torpedoes activated.


consecutively:

fed_galaxyr3  --- is the normal Galaxy at Rank 3

fed_galaxyMr3 -- is the Rank 3 Galaxy with Type-3 Torpedoes activated.

posted on March 12th, 2010, 6:17 am

aye i know about the lines as I've gave the all versions of the defiant cloaking and its worked fine thats why I'm puzzled that its not working on the sovie and Galaxy

heres the sovie odf 




basename = "fed_sovereign"
verbosetooltip = "AUTOTOOLTIP-fed_sovereignYr6.odf"
worthxp = 179
xplevel = 6
maxhealth = 603
curhealth = 603
healthrate = 2.619
maxshields = 2020
curshields = 2020
shieldrate = 8.653
shieldgeneratorhitpoints = 268
engineshitpoints = 268
weaponshitpoints = 268
lifesupporthitpoints = 268
sensorshitpoints = 268
maxspecialenergy = 519
specialenergyrate = 4.326
attackpower = 1.000
intrinsicvalue = 1.000
enginesrepairtime = 0.5
lifesupportrepairtime = 0.125
weaponsrepairtime = 0.5
shieldgeneratorrepairtime = 0.5
sensorsrepairtime = 0.5
weapon1 = "fedW_sovereignYr61"
weapon2 = "fedW_sovereignYr62"
weapon5 = "passive_hullpolarization"
weaponhardpoints5 = "root"
weapon5iconpos = 64 40
weapon6 = "passive_advancedengineering"
weaponhardpoints6 = "root"
weapon6iconpos = 64 60
giveisallowed = 0
fleetcapfile = "all_cap_veteran.odf"
originalclass = "fed_sovereignY"
unitname = "Sovereign Class"
tooltip = "Sovereign Class"
hotkeylabel = "GAME-HOTKEY-S"
race = "unitedfederation"
buildtime = 111
crewcost = 400
dilithiumcost = 925
tritancost = 277
supplycost = 28
recycledilithium = 278
recycletritanium = 83
recyclesupply = 8
recycletime = 134
physicsfile = "smooth_physics_90.odf"
trekphysicsfile = "smooth_physics_90.odf"
weaponhardpoints1 = "hp01" "hp02" "hp03" "hp04" "hp05" "hp06" "hp07" "hp08"
weaponhardpoints2 = "hp08" "hp09"
weapon3 = "fed_distortion"
weaponhardpoints3 = "hp08"
weapon4 = "passive_ablativearmor"
weaponhardpoints4 = "root"
weapon10 = "rom_cloak_tavara"
weaponhardpoints10 = "root"
enginestargethardpoints = "hp33" "hp34" "hp35" "hp36" "hp37" "hp38" "hp39" "hp40" "hp41" "hp42" "hp43" "hp44"
lifesupporttargethardpoints = "hp10" "hp11" "hp12" "hp13" "hp14" "hp15" "hp16"
weaponstargethardpoints = "hp01" "hp02" "hp03" "hp04" "hp05" "hp06" "hp07" "hp08" "hp09"
shieldgeneratortargethardpoints = "hp17" "hp18" "hp19" "hp20" "hp21" "hp22" "hp23" "hp24"
sensorstargethardpoints = "hp25" "hp26" "hp27" "hp28" "hp29" "hp30" "hp31" "hp32"
hulltargethardpoints = "hp25" "hp26" "hp27" "hp28" "hp29" "hp30" "hp31" "hp32"
criticaltargethardpoints = "hp45" "hp46" "hp47" "hp48"
weapon1iconpos = 42 50
weapon2iconpos = 59 50
weapon3iconpos = 70 50
weapon4iconpos = 75 50
possiblecraftnames = "USS Adhara" "USS Al Batani" "USS Algiers" "USS Archeus" "USS Astrea" "USS Attika" "USS Azati" "USS Baron" "USS Bolarus" "USS Caravelle" "USS Challenger" "USS Charis" "USS Comet" "USS Commonwealth" "USS Concorde" "USS Consensus" "USS Cosmos" "USS Development" "USS Dione" "USS Douglas" "USS Eden" "USS Emming" "USS Endurance" "USS Eretria" "USS Eridani" "USS Geneva" "USS Grace" "USS Herbert" "USS Identity" "USS Integrity" "USS Justice" "USS Klir" "USS Koizumi" "USS Lichen" "USS Longfield" "USS Maas" "USS Manifest" "USS Marauder" "USS Matriarch" "USS Muller" "USS Nautilus" "USS Pacific" "USS Paris" "USS Passant" "USS Pathfinder" "USS Patrol" "USS Peacekeeper" "USS Perihelion" "USS Prince" "USS Pulsar" "USS Republic" "USS Rogue" "USS Roosevelt" "USS Rose" "USS Sirius" "USS Sphere" "USS Surak" "USS Sutherland" "USS Svalbard" "USS T´Khut" "USS Tethys" "USS Tornado" "USS Tremedouse" "USS Tulipa" "USS Venus" "USS Virgo" "USS Viscount" "USS Xanga" "USS Xon" "USS Yiling"
eventselect = "Basic3BattleshipSelect"
eventacknowledge = "Basic3BattleshipAcknowledge"
eventattack = "Basic3BattleshipAttack"
eventstop = "Basic3BattleshipStop"
eventmove = "Basic3BattleshipMove"
eventrepair = "Basic3BattleshipRepair"
shipclass = "battleship"
shiptype = "B"
avoidanceclass = 8
weldingradius = 0.25
fireball = "x_large2_explosion"
classlabel = "craft"
ainame = "CraftProcess"
officercost = 0
shielddelay = 2
damagedscan = 50.0
enginescrewloss = 10.0f
lifesupportcrewloss = 10.0f
weaponscrewloss = 10.0f
shieldgeneratorcrewloss = 10.0f
sensorscrewloss = 5.0f
lifesupportloss = 2
engineshitpercent = 7.0f
lifesupporthitpercent = 7.0f
weaponshitpercent = 7.0f
shieldgeneratorhitpercent = 1.0f
sensorshitpercent = 0
crewhitpercent = 7.0f
hullhitpercent = 71.0f
ship = 1
has_hitpoints = 1
has_crew = 1
transporter = 1
alert = 1
show_sw_autonomy = 1
show_movement_autonomy = 1
can_explore = 1
combat = 1
can_sandd = 1
buildablebyownerraceonly = 1
specialenergydisplaymode = 1
extraweaponhardpoints = "root"
maxextraweapons = 10
rangescan = 850
shieldhit = "shield_fed_hitL"
shieldhitcritical = "shield_fed_hitcritL"
shielddown = "shield_fed_down"

[Boggz]

posted on March 12th, 2010, 6:39 am

Last edited by Boggz on March 12th, 2010, 6:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

Well for one you've got the Tavara Cloak as "weapon10" ... you might try Weapon7 as 6 is the last one used. 

  Also, notice the other lines in the ODF that each special weapon uses.

weapon1iconpos = 42  50
weapon2iconpos = 59  50
weapon3iconpos = 70  50
weapon4iconpos = 75  50

  These are the positions on the actual model showing the icon for each ability, weapon, and special.  This isn't crucial I guess.

posted on March 12th, 2010, 6:42 am

umm now look in the odf again 

weapon1 = "fedW_sovereignYr61"
weapon2 = "fedW_sovereignYr62"
weapon5 = "passive_hullpolarization"
weaponhardpoints5 = "root"
weapon5iconpos = 64  40
weapon6 = "passive_advancedengineering"
weaponhardpoints6 = "root"
weapon6iconpos = 64  60
giveisallowed = 0

posted on March 12th, 2010, 6:48 am

I had to modify.  I misunderstood your question.

You've set the cloak to weaponslot 10.  Try 7.

posted on March 13th, 2010, 4:21 pm

Well, to make sure, I added the tavara cloak to a rank 5 and 6 sovie and tested.  While the weapon is set to 10 the ability doesn't appear, but as 7 it works just fine, so as boggz says, that is most likely your problem 

posted on March 13th, 2010, 4:37 pm

The Tavara has more abilities than the Sovvie or Galaxy .  It's likely number 10 on the Tavara, but things need to be be in line on the other ships .

posted on March 13th, 2010, 4:44 pm

yes, the weapon numbers need to be in sequential order

change the 10 to a 7.  then it should work