Weapon Effect Length

posted on December 5th, 2010, 3:50 pm

Hi everyone,

I would like to change how long the Weapons become disabled for, when the Defiant Critical Shot is fired? What lines would I have to change?


Thanks in Advance 

posted on December 5th, 2010, 3:53 pm

I think lifespan = 10 from fed_criticalo.odf is the line to change.

Which reminds me, shouldn't that be 12 not 10?

posted on December 5th, 2010, 3:58 pm

lifespan only defines how long the visual weapon effect will remain without hitting something.

I looked myself in the .odf's for critical shot but didn't find something affecting the duration of the weapons disabling effect.

posted on December 5th, 2010, 4:00 pm

disableweaponstime = 12

[RedEyedRaven]

posted on December 5th, 2010, 4:05 pm

Last edited by RedEyedRaven on December 5th, 2010, 4:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

disableweaponstime = 12

If this line wouldn't be missing in fed_critical.odf and fed_criticalo.odf I would agree however manually adding and changing it does work with odf-commands.

posted on December 5th, 2010, 4:16 pm

It's not missing - I copy pasted directly from the ordnance file

[RedEyedRaven]

posted on December 5th, 2010, 4:22 pm

Last edited by RedEyedRaven on December 5th, 2010, 4:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well... in my ordnance file the line doesn't appear. I checked three times by now. So to me, it is visually missing 


Correction. The line was hiding between the romulan and Borg-vessels in damagevalues.

posted on December 6th, 2010, 2:12 pm

I think lifespan = 10 from fed_criticalo.odf is the line to change.

Which reminds me, shouldn't that be 12 not 10?

I think lifespan is how long it appears on screen.

posted on December 6th, 2010, 2:14 pm

Yeah, we established I made a mistake there.

lifespan only defines how long the visual weapon effect will remain without hitting something.