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This is epic coding theory
Make sure you make a standalone version of each though, it should be easy enough, get rid of the sprite component of the smart missiles/rail cannon and just make the rounds/shells null.

I still need the current railcannon sprite though...
My main complaint about the current rail rifle is the glows and the circle blob thingies and the muzzleflash laser. My main complaint about the Pulse Rifle is the Strange double shot and the projectile. This covers the carbine also. I plan on respriting the rail cannon myself and then doing the carbine. If someone else does a satisfactory one first I'll probably just do something else. I also dislike the Pulse Pistol, it has a stock, which classifies it as a carbine, I liked the pulse revolver sprite, just change the Pulse Pistol sprite to the pulse revolver sprite...

Having tested Vagyr's version I can say that it is easily worthy of posting here. Most of it still needs alot of work though... the Stealthsuit sprite is not particularly bad. It simply needs shading and proportion in some areas. And arms and fixed offsets. Focus on doing other stuff for now though... like a pathfinder and other weapons/fixing the current ones.

Stuff I have committed to do:
-Rail Gun Sprite first
-Pulse Carbine Resprite after
-Descriptions & Explanations on Demand whenever
-Resprites of other weapons after and as I see the need of them

it is not just vagyr's...
it contains the stealth suit from naXx

The rail rifle is non-mac compatible in all versions. Can someone possibly fix that?

Hey, i dunno about youre prob but i hope you find the answer koz this mod could be awesome....

Im gonna re-make the rail rifle, and I'm gonna do it in the following way :


Fire a solid slug MOS-R of some kind, probably an AEmitter, that has a gib impulse = to 1 less than mass*Velocity. This ensures that it will gib after it has its velocity reduced to about half when going through terrain, but will instantly gib on other MOSRs.

It will gib into some sharp particles with zero velocity so that whatever they hit, will be pelted with sharp particles with a short lifetime. I'm gonna do the same thing with the rail-gun in a moment to make sure that I can set them to have no momentum.


Also, your not actually getting my sprites for the XV88-2 until I release it. the rail-rifle I will post, all it will be is a scaled down version of the rail gun.



ALSO : all info below copied from imperial armor. also I found my codex.

FULL Revised list of XVs
XV 15 (Old stealth suit)
XV 22 (Experimental stealth suit)
XV 25 (Standard stealth suit)
XV 8 (Crisis suit)
XV 88 (broadside)
XV 88-2 ( Broadside 2, Minor visual improvements, slightly smaller body, weapons positions changed)
XV 81 (Special Issue Command Crisis suit : shoulder mounted smart missiles + 2 hardpoint weapons)
XV 84 (Special Issue Command Crisis Suit : Same as XV 8 BUT +15 points for markerlight & Target lock)
XV 89 (Special Issue Command Crisis suit : Save becomes 2+, Assault move 1D6, XV8, +25Pts)
XV 82 (Shas O Rymar : Double Barrel Plasma Rifle, Advanced shield generator, Flechette Discharger, Ejector System, HW Drown Controller, Target lock. = 160 + Drones + Bodyguard)

Only Commanders, and the bodyguards of Shas O May use the XV 81, 84, or 89, One per army each excluding bodyguards which may contain duplicates.

The Double Barreled plasma rifle is Range 24" Str 6 AP 2, Assault 2.
The shield generater grands a 4+ Invulnerable save
The ADVANCED shield generator save INCREASES to 3+ Invulnerable save ONLY in close combat.
The flechette discharger is exactly like the vehicle upgrade of the same name (whenever the vehicle is hit in close combat, roll 1D6, on a 4 5 or 6 the attacker takes a wound. I dont know if they get a save)


Edit:
I will make the XV 88-2, the XV 8, the XV 82, and the XV 89.

When I do, I will release them as individual mods.
I will give permission to ADD them to this mod, as long as they aren't changed, unless otherwise specified.
In those cases, Simply replace contents of the file as, for example

the XV 88-2

Find XV 88-2.rte/
Replace all with Tau.rte/XV 88-2/ and drop the entire thing into tau.rte, and get rid of .rte.

thats all you have to do to include one mod in another, and I don't see how people think thats so hard or impressive.

Meh, if everyone's too lazy to do it themselves then I'll do it. I've done it with some minor mods, the Minor Mod Compendium, the Single Release AAL stuff and some mod Archives. Compared to those, a pack of fully functioning current build .rtes will be a piece of cake... Also, I'm quite sure the picture lists have most of those and the description lists completely list them with pictures... so, if everyone's too lazy to go back a page or so then I'll post the links up again...

I finished 99% of the code for the rail rifle.

I need sounds for the rifle.
I need sprites for the rifle. (Trying to get mate to do it... good art)
I need sprites for the magazine.
I need a ?x3 pixel ammo sprite (I'm thinking of doing it myself.)

I need to ask how tough it is. 2-3 shots kill doors. To much or not enough?
Depending on hits, it might only do one damage, but 90% of the time it makes things just explode.

I also launched a Gargaunt at a velocity of 1000 because it started flipping really wierd, but that only happened to 1 of 12 gargaunts, and thats an error in the gargaunt, i've done that with the shotgun too.

I have decided to do an entire review of current sprites. Expect updates but sporadically and quite possibly not soon. The rail rifle is nice, I like that. Everything else must be resprited *loads shotgun which somehow corresponds to preparing to sprite*. I will also be doing my best to change some of those smoke effects and also the firing sprites... don't expect muzzleflashes though...

@Miles: I would probably think that about 2 hits would destroy a door, but 3 sounds about right as well. Tweak to your desire.

Its not very big, and I'm to lazy to rar something for just lines of code.

Currently this uses the sprites of the flack cannon, and has all of its offsets, other than that,

Here is the rail-rifle
Ammo for the rail Rifle


Magazine
It has infinite ammo and is tamper-proofed.

The Actual Gun which is un-important for now

Oh yes and I forgot one thing

Null-ish.bmp
It MUST be 3 pixels tall, right now I just have a 3x3 green square, as a place-holder. I'll be making a detailed bullet when I have time. Right now after finishing posts, I'll be eatting dinner and watching mythbusters.

Schweet...
I'll try and get you a revised firing sprite of the rail rifle but I think the current rail rifle looks alright... here it is for convenience.
I'm currently working on the rail gun. I'm probably going to make a normal version and an XV88-2 version, they look quite different.

EDIT: I just decided I suck at lighting crossover at the moment. Maybe some other time.

uuum...
would any1 be interested to make some sprites for a tank(naXx was going to make them but hes is missing for a week)???
i have made a code(by doing a modification on the ivar code)...
and i found a way to make it look like it is hoovering.
sooo...
is there any1???

Give me the offsets and crap like that, and i'll do it tomorrow, and have the rail rifle finished. I'm still working on the 88-2 but i've taken a break because I suck at actors and didn't wanna start that yet.

I WILL have to make the 88-2 BEFORE adding homing missiles, because....

Missile-pods sit on the shoulders, I need to figure out how to make the gun-offsets and the actor, rotate the gun at the right place to put the smart missiles on the shoulder, no matter where you aim.


I'm gonna have to make the gun's offset 0,0 on the shoulder aren't I?

Meh, I really can't do the firing animation of it... anyone up for it? I promise not to shoot anyone for doing it badly... this time
Anyway, the idle sprite is above if anyone wants it.

And yeah, you probably are going to have to put the offset on the shoulders...

EDIT: Call it a not quite finished present.
DOUBLE EDIT: Call it an as finished as I can be bothered to make it present. Also, my version of the pulse pistol, y'know, as an actual pistol instead of some random carbine thing -_-"

INSPIRATION!!!
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/acatalog/QUATERMASTERS_STORE_TAU_15.html

the website for the tau products...
it has ALL the offisial models...
very usefull...