i know about the shield point restore rate but im looking to change the length of time between each restore.
as for the special ability id have to change it to a fixed level? from there how do i give it to the frigate?

Ok, you can do this very easily using these things in combination:

"AffectsOnlyShields" (use in DoDamage periodic action type)
"OnBuffFinish" (buff apply condition)
"ShieldFailure" (end condition)

I hope you see where I'm going with this... ...I'll let you fill in the details...

good luck...

I think he was just asking about how to modify generic shield stats, not creating an ability to do it

You can alter the amount but not the interval

Probably the only way you can do what you want is to make an ability to do it. I haven't tried it of course, but the basic concept is:

- A passive ability affecting the ship in question
- When the ship has no shields, it sets the recharge rate to 0
- It expires after however long you want, thus resetting the shield recharge to the default value.

Possible issue is I don't know if you throw an expiration condition on a passive that the passive will re-apply afterwards. Basically, I don't know if it's a one shot deal and will only work the first time the ship loses shields or if it will keep working every time.

Someone who's messed with abilities more (I'm a bit rusty ) can probably pitch in here.

There are plenty of talented modders (Helioforge is one of them) around these forums who can help you if you run into trouble. However, you should try it first for yourself to get a feel for making abilities and to try and figure it out.

More people will be willing to help you solve a specific problem rather than walking you step by step through making the entire ability

I don't think the tutorial PDF goes too much in depth about ability scripting, so the best advice I can give you is to look at existing similar ones. For example, you can look at the Progenitor Mothership's shield recharge ability, so you can see how shield recharge modifiers are done.

Bailknight put together an awesome list of all the various modifiers ability scripting uses here. It seems daunting at first, and will be until you look through and figure out the flow of logic in the ability files and play around a little And I can help pitch in with the basics, but as I've said I haven't created this type of an ability so beyond the basics of "how everything works" I won't be able to tell you much that you can't try yourself

It doesn't exist

Shield recharge rates in the x amount per second are in each ship's entity file, and you can't change the interval.

Other shield stats like max mitigation, rate of mitigation increase/decrease are in each race's entity file (PlayerTech, PlayerPsi, PlayerPhase).

That's pretty much it. Everything else with shields you have to do through abilities.



It all depends on how you want to do it. Making their weapons look like it is very easy. You can just find the name of the Kol's gauss blast projectile effect in its ability file, and use that in every other ship, so all the shots look like the gauss projectiles. Same with the plasma, which have several versions on various Advent ships.

this really messes up my mod idea but i guess ill have to do the ability version. my main need for that are restoring the shields after the duration period if im not making sense please tell me. and i could remove any restoration rate so that this is the only way for shields to restore. i know nothing of ability modding or how to give it to ships all my attemps end in a minidump.