[req] take out gun smoke

[mjy]

i got the mod that shots the gun faster, but the smoke is getting in the way, anyway to get that out of the way, just a smaller smoke when i shot????

[TheDarkWraith]

i got the mod that shots the gun faster, but the smoke is getting in the way, anyway to get that out of the way, just a smaller smoke when i shot????

I can point you in the direction to do it but it will probably affect other guns that use the effect for the smoke. First off find the ID of the gun that is giving the smoke. Once you have this ID check the .sim file for the gun and search for it's ID (you'll find it's a parent of one of the objects). After finding this scroll down through the settings till you come to Fire....effect. After effect will be an 8 byte ID. This 8 byte ID can be found in the particles.dat file. Once you find that ID in the particles.dat file scroll down to it's FastParticleGenerator (or it might be a ParticleGenerator) and find the settings 'Life'. This is a float value. If you adjust all the 'Life' parameters (say cut them in half) for that FPG or PG then you will have made the smoke appear for only 1/2 the time.

[Webster]

forget the gatlin gun mod and use the upgraded deck gun mod found at my file front page, it wont blow them out of the water like the gatlin gun but it will be a reasonably fast firing mod that still gives you enough firepower to take on a DD on the surface

EDIT: nothing can be done about the smoke so the gatlin gun mod is IMO not very good if you like to manually target the ships because the smoke prevents you from seeing what your shooting at.