Topic: FREE BEER y'all!

[power2022]

Haha, glad that got you in here! Anyways, whoever can help I'll give some virtual beer!

I'm curious as to 4 things guys, and this is about SFC OP again which I'm modding. First of all,

Is it possible to change the weapon names that are shown on screen while playing. (aka the mfd or better known as the sidebar to the right). I know I can't change the icon, but can the name and possibly the button names be changed?

2nd.
Is there a way to get rid of the Plasma X and Snare's trails. All the plasma's have trails, I'm just not too sure how I get rid of a specific ones.

3rd.
I'm assuming this is in the SFC sound effects zip file, but can the Plasma X and snare sounds be changed? I'm hoping they're not shared with the other plasmas, if so uhhh mind telling me which one it is if you've got some time?

FINALLY,
I'm trying to make a "better" cloak for the game so to speak, and am trying to do it in shipedit. I was curious, in shipedit, under the power/systems tab and in the box that says Stealth (+ECM), does it actually increase a ship's ECM and how so. (I've made a ship using this feature and seen no difference in game) I'd love to be able to really get a ships ECM up in order to make their cloak that much better in effect.

I KNOW it's a lot of questions. But I'd be really appreciative to any answers cause I've been searching for some and it's led me in circles all night long. Anyways I must sleep! Work in 4 hours! Good Night / Morning CJG! and remember, there's a free beer in it for you! (Even a sleeman's! :O )

[power2022]

Oh and one more thing,
I'm pretty new to the modding world, but was very curious as to if someone might be able to give me some insight or help me to (without programming C++, since I've got nothing in that sense for my lappy) have a situation (mission) in which the allies at about a minute into the mission switch sides and become enemies. I would really like that, or if by chance someone could edit my mission to do that, I would give credit in the mod I'm making and be in your debt big time. I've been working mostly with FMSE for now. Thanks again!

[Rod ONeal]

Is it possible to change the weapon names that are shown on screen while playing. (aka the mfd or better known as the sidebar to the right). I know I can't change the icon, but can the name and possibly the button names be changed?

Not that I'm aware of.

2nd.
Is there a way to get rid of the Plasma X and Snare's trails. All the plasma's have trails, I'm just not too sure how I get rid of a specific ones.

Yes. black out the last 4 images on the plasma bitmap. The 4 in the lower right corner that look like sparklers.

3rd.
I'm assuming this is in the SFC sound effects zip file, but can the Plasma X and snare sounds be changed? I'm hoping they're not shared with the other plasmas, if so uhhh mind telling me which one it is if you've got some time?

wave   kSndPlasmaSnareFire   PLsnDisc.wav                              1   150         94   Sound Effects         80   80         y
wave   kSndPlasmaSnareHit   HITPlsn.wav                              1   151         94   Sound Effects         80   100         y
wave   kSndPlasmaXFire   PLenDisc.wav                              1   152         94   Sound Effects         80   80         y

This is from the sounds.txt file. Looks like it's the 3 file names that I've hilighted. When you edit the SFCSounds.zip file you have to zip it up with zero compression.

FINALLY,
I'm trying to make a "better" cloak for the game so to speak, and am trying to do it in shipedit. I was curious, in shipedit, under the power/systems tab and in the box that says Stealth (+ECM), does it actually increase a ship's ECM and how so. (I've made a ship using this feature and seen no difference in game) I'd love to be able to really get a ships ECM up in order to make their cloak that much better in effect.

No. The stealth bonus in the shiplist doesn't work.

[power2022]

WOW AWESOME BEER TO YOU! You just saved me like 4 hours of testing stuff. THANKS soooooo much. Very Appreciated dude!! (Y) *give 18,000 pack of beer*   

[Rod ONeal]

No Problem. Make sure you back up anything before you edit it.