brb gonna try it out. Can something inherit from itself? 'Cause that's what I'd have to do... this has to overwrite its base item. [EDIT] Yeah Trans throws an error. Which makes sense 'cause an item inheriting from itself would be infinite recursion. I think the only other possible option would be g...

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The <Image> tag in an item type, specifically a weapon, not an <Image> resource. I need to change the image UNID it points to and its coords (startX and startY). width and height will not change.

I'm not looking for something that requires scripting (I'm sure it is doable with scripting, and I might just try it for my graphics mod); I think it would be far simpler to allow this type of modification purely in XML as another option.

I have an idea that seems like it would be simple to implement, and would add a lot of functionality to XML definitions. A flag in a definition, let's call it overwrite="True", would mean that the definition is supposed to overwrite another one, and doesn't need to specify anything other than what i...

Registered. I just need the last section of code changed from <Events> <OnDestroy> (block Nil (plyMessage gPlayer "You haven't seen the last of me!!!! BOOM!") (sysAddObjTimerEvent 100 gSource "Kaboom") ) </OnDestroy> <Kaboom> (sysCreateEffect &vtPlasmaExplosion2; gSource (objGetPos gSource)) </Kaboo...

Figured it out. The very bottom of This page , about timers, is wrong and sysCreateEffect can not create explosions. An explosion is a virtual item defined by <ItemType>, whereas an effect (such as &efGemOfSacrifice;, the only thing used with sysCreateEffect) is defined by <Effect>. This needs to be...

OK, I just made a test thingy using a Trans effect, where it overrides a Trans station (the Centauri Warlords camp). Still gives an error. Can someone install this and destroy that Centauri camp near Starton Eridani and see if it happens for you too? And if so, is this a bug, or am I doing something...

sysCreateEffect is still throwing an error after I defined the explosion in my script.

I do not define &vtThermoExplosion1; in any XML referenced by my adventure extension (it's part of vanilla Trans). If I set explosionType= "&vtThermoExplosion1;" on a station in my extension, it has the thermo explosion. (sysCreateEffect &vtThermoExplosion1; gSource (objGetPos gSource)) throws an er...

RPC and I got this worked out on IRC. I wasn't cancelling the existing orders (or using shpOrderImmediate to insert the new orders at the top of the stack), so the ships never stopped doing what they were doing to begin with.

OK, what I want to do is have a ring of ships patrolling 300 lightseconds away from a star, who attack any ship coming within 350 lightseconds of the star. I do this by putting a <Ships> section on the star which spawns the ships (they're spawned at the star's location and have to fly out to the 300...

Noob here! 1: B - I've been there using a debug godmod, but in a real game I've never even got to PJ :P 2: C - I have a few favorite configurations, usually a howitzer and lancer past St. K's, and a star cannon once it's feasible. Never had to progress past that point. 3: A. 4: A. Obviously I know a...

Eh. OK, my laptop's color apparently sucks ten times more than I thought it did. The first image looked fine, only there was a bit of a border on the edge of the star. So I guess the problem is, stars don't play well with 8bit masks at all... (oh, I'm pretty sure the dots on the SRS are background s...

I wanted to try and use a cool-looking UV image of the sun as a Trans star. If I set its spaceColor to "0x00, 0x00, 0x00", it looks normal (ignore the glowy asteroids, those are a project of mine): http://i.imgur.com/1vHgv.png BUT, If I set the spaceColor to anything else, it starts screwing up the ...