How to give a custom weapon to a custom enemy ship?

[bamalf]

I have working custom weapon and custom enemy ship, but the ship starting without any weapons.

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<shipBlueprint name="BS_ROCK_OUTPOST" layout="bs_rock_outpost" img="bs_rock_station_b">
	<class>Rock outpost</class>
	<systemList>
		<medbay power="1" max="3" room="4" start="false"/>
		<doors power="3" max="3" room="0" start="true"/>
		<oxygen power="1" max="3" room="5" start="true"/>
		<shields power="8" max="8" room="1" start="true"/>
		<weapons power="4" max="8" room="3" start="true"/>
	</systemList>
	<weaponList missiles="0" load="WEAPONS_ROCK_PRO"/>
	<health amount="20"/>
	<maxPower amount="19"/>
	<crewCount amount="5" max="7" class="rock"/>
	<aug name="ROCK_ARMOR"/>
	<boardingAI>sabotage</boardingAI>
</shipBlueprint>

<blueprintList name="WEAPONS_ROCK_PRO">
	<name>SOLAR_BARRAGE_ARRAY</name>
</blueprintList>

[stylesrj]

<blueprintList name="WEAPONS_ROCK_PRO">
<name>SOLAR_BARRAGE_ARRAY</name>
</blueprintList>

I think you'll need a lot more than just a name if you want that weapon to show up and be used on the Rock ship.
You need things like charge time, firing animations, damage, cost.

In fact, look up a weapon in blueprints.xml, copy that and change the values there.

[bamalf]

The weapon already exists, I can add it on own ship, but not on the enemy. I got solve the problem:

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<shipBlueprint name="BS_ROCK_OUTPOST" layout="bs_rock_outpost" img="bs_rock_station_b">
	<class>Rock outpost</class>
	<systemList>
		<medbay power="1" max="3" room="4" start="false"/>
		<doors power="3" max="3" room="0" start="true"/>
		<oxygen power="1" max="3" room="5" start="true"/>
		<shields power="8" max="8" room="1" start="true"/>
		<weapons power="4" max="8" room="3" start="true"/>
	</systemList>
	<weaponList count="1" missiles="0">
		<weapon name="SOLAR_BARRAGE_ARRAY"/>
	</weaponList>
	<health amount="20"/>
	<maxPower amount="19"/>
	<crewCount amount="5" max="7" class="rock"/>
	<aug name="ROCK_ARMOR"/>
	<boardingAI>sabotage</boardingAI>
</shipBlueprint>

[stylesrj]

The weapon already exists, I can add it on own ship, but not on the enemy. I got solve the problem:

When you put the blueprint for it outside of the ship blueprint, I assumed the weapon wasn't working because you just gave it a name.

Has the custom ship got weapon mounts?

[bamalf]

Yes, other sets of weapons (e. g. <blueprintList name="WEAPONS_ROCK">) works correctly, weapons at random are chosen from list.

[stylesrj]

Well that's all I know from the script... I mean that's as far as my knowledge of modding takes me. I've never actually modded an enemy ship before so I don't know how weapons and mounts work for them. Perhaps someone else will know the issue.

[Gencool]

Did you get this working then?

My only observation is that the original code has a line that reads

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   <weaponList missiles="0" load="WEAPONS_ROCK_PRO"/>

where it probably should be

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   <weaponList count="1" missiles="0" load="WEAPONS_ROCK_PRO"/>

((I'm not sure what happens if you don't have the count tag, but it *might* mean you don't get any weapons))

[bamalf]

It works, but other enemies did not have "count" in their weaponLists. I'm confused.

[kartoFlane]

You can make your own weapons list with ONLY your custom weapon , But the ship will have 1-4 of that weapon because you cant make it so that enemy always has the same loadout no matter what!

Actually, you can. The weaponList tag in enemy ships accepts both blueprintLists (via the 'load' attribute), as well as specific weapons listed like in player ships.
At least IIRC, I tested this way before AE...

The 'count' attribute specifies the number of weapons that will be drafted from the list for the ship to use. Generally this should be equal to number of weapon slots on the ship. IIRC omitting this will cause the game to always draft the maximum number of weapons for the ship (ie. count = number of weapon slots)

[kartoFlane]

Well, like I said, you simply do it the same way you do it for player ships, so...

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<weaponList count="2" missiles="#">
  <weapon name="WEAPON_1" />
  <weapon name="WEAPON_2" />
</weaponList>

It may or may not work like that anymore -- as I said, I've tested this before the AE update.