Weapon Charge Up

Is there any way to prevent a weapon from firing right away so that a charge up sound and effect can be played? I'm specifically talking about beams here. If not, is there another way to do this besides just having a single beam shot through an ability. That creates more problems than it solves, and doesn't acheive the desired effect (yes, I've already tried that method). This is for Entrenchment.

My goal is to have several beams placed on the ship that can fire independently of each other but have a charge up effect and sound.

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Pbhead

Join Date 12/2008

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yes. Look at the space egg of doom before it fracks up a planet... or a advent battle ship before it does cleansing brilliance. I think some other caps have brief charge up times as well.

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but, you want it WITHOUT an ability right?

thier is a way to do it.

look at the effect likes for the weapon itself, thier should be a "FiringEffect" or "Chargupeffect" or something along those lines.

I'm too lazy to look up the wording right now, but if you can't figure it out, then I can look it up for you.

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I know that you can have a charge up sound and effect. The problem is that the weapon fires as soon as it plays these effects. i.e. the charge up sound plays while the beam is firing and playing its own sound. What I want is a way to delay the firing of the acutal weapon until the charge up sound and effect is complete, not before it even happens. I've tried messing with every weapon setting but nothing I've tried works

The normal TEC battleship has a charge effect for its beams, but like I said earlier, it starts the same time the beam does, and even ends before it. Now that I've noticed that, it's really annoying.

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You could emulate it.

Make a particle effect which is supposed to last X seconds with a charge up like animation being part of it.

Then create a sound effect reflecting that animation.

Make the weapon having a decently long cooldown.

Then add it all to the weapon slot it is meant for.

Suffice to say it would probably be some sort of burst damage weapon with fairly low DPS overall.

As an example you could take the Vulkoras' bombardment platform as reference I guess.

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