FRAK IT.... Frigging, Really, Annoying, Kinetic ... Issue... Thingy...

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Hey there! I'm hoping someone much more knowledgeable than myself can help me with a big of a animation issue.

 

It would appear, that when I make custom ships and utilize them as a custom shipset, that the only weapon animation that occurs in the battleviewer, is a sad, paltry kinetic shot.

 

I really play the game so little (I've spent virtually all my time in the ship editor), that I've only really realized this now, when someone brought it to my attention. Furthermore, it would appear to only happen to default designs. Not a custom design I the player make.

 

My guess? When the custom ship gets used, I've noticed that the ship components of the AI blueprints don't appear on the vessel (thank god, it makes all my designs work aesthetically!) BUT I suspect that since the components are not "attached" to the ship, that the game has no basis for animating the shots from a specific point on the ship, and so instead, a single kinetic animation is used from the ship's center point.

If that is the case, the problem could be solved in a couple of ways. 1) Attach the components on the central cube, and set them to invisible. or 2) If they are not attached, animate their projectile from the center of the ship by default.

 

Is it possible I missed some obscure file I need to mod to tell the game something about these ships? Yes, but not that I've found...

 

This of course, reinforces my desire for a professional/official ship-set editor. :(

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Gauntlet03...  I am working on my own mod and running into this issue... It get no mention of this bug anywhere else other than you.  I am seeing it ONLY on balanced Dreadnough and its happening on my own mod and your mod.  Did you ever get to the bottom of this or this is one of those 'it is what it is' situation.

 

PS:  Sorry to revive a SUPER old post... but this is the only reference I manage to find relating to this annoying issue

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I was playing the campaign, and at the end. Some of the ships were not showing up in the combat viewer only recently. I'm playing version 1.82 did stardock recently do a emergency patch. Got bored now I'm back to playing the Yor in sanbox mode. I'ts lonely on an insane map.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

When I do custom ships I get all the particle weapon effects..beams..kinetic and missles.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

This only seems to affecting default ship sets... we also have reports about starbases doing the same thing