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Wed, 25 April 2012 01:27

Madd_Mugsy

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So messing around with the XML Editor, one of the things that drives me nuts, and I'm sure must really drive Wil473 and Smeagol insane, is the crazy amount of work that's required to add and maintain attachment consistency across an increasing number of guns and other items.

So I have a quick solution: The ~~NAS Receiver.~~ Common Attachment Framework.

Basically, we add 3 UINT64/128 tags to items.xml:
- ~~nasReceiver~~ AvailableAttachmentPoint
- ~~nasAcceptedReceiver~~ AttachmentPoint
- ~~nasAttachReceiverAPCost~~ AttachToPointAPCost

We can use these in a similar fashion (ie: bitwise operations) to the nasAttachmentClass tag, and simply set the ~~nasReceiver~~ AvailableAttachmentPoint tag on the weapon/base item, and the ~~nasAcceptedReceiver~~ AttachmentPoint tag on the attachment. Then we can set a common AP cost across all base items with ~~nasAttachReceiverAPCost~~ AttachToPointAPCost.

For example:

Say we have the basic Laser Sight attachment. This thing can be attached to every gun in the game. But what a pain in the ass to have to link it to EVERY gun in the game. And it's so much worse in AIMNAS or AFS, where the number of weapons is much, much higher. *Whew* I get tired just thinking about it.

First we need to do some once only setup legwork.

We need to define a list of possible receivers. For this example, I'll keep it simple, but with enough meat so you get the idea:

0    None
1    Pistol Small
2    Pistol Medium
4    Pistol Large
8    Revolver
16   Large Revolver
32   Machine pistol
63   Any Handgun
64   Submachinegun
128  Shotgun
256  Rifle
512  Assault Rifle
1024 Sniper Rifle
2048 Light Machinegun
4095 Any Gun

Now we could add on things like GLs, Rail systems and AK receivers, and so on. But I'll leave that to your imagination for now...

Next we set all the ~~nasReceiver~~ AvailableAttachmentPoint tags on our guns in the XML Editor (using edit mode in the grid, so we can do it quickly).

Now back to our Laser Sight. We set the ~~nasAcceptedReceiver~~ AttachmentPoint tag to 4095 = Any gun. And we're done. We can also go ahead and delete that massive list of entries in Attachments.xml now to make the game go faster. (It would work with Launchables.xml as well)

Any thoughts, comments or concerns? I can probably get this implemented in the next day or two.

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		(New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Wed, 25 April 2012 01:27
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Flugente on Wed, 25 April 2012 01:45
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Madd_Mugsy on Wed, 25 April 2012 02:21
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Flugente on Wed, 25 April 2012 02:49
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: DepressivesBrot on Wed, 25 April 2012 18:40
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Wil473 on Wed, 25 April 2012 18:51
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Madd_Mugsy on Wed, 25 April 2012 20:21
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: dinglehopper on Wed, 25 April 2012 23:41
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Madd_Mugsy on Thu, 26 April 2012 09:44
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: dinglehopper on Thu, 26 April 2012 10:05
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Wil473 on Thu, 26 April 2012 10:07
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: dinglehopper on Thu, 26 April 2012 10:16
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: DepressivesBrot on Thu, 26 April 2012 11:31
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: dinglehopper on Thu, 26 April 2012 16:17
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Wil473 on Thu, 26 April 2012 16:48
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Madd_Mugsy on Thu, 26 April 2012 18:11
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Wil473 on Thu, 26 April 2012 18:16
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: Madd_Mugsy on Fri, 27 April 2012 09:20
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: DepressivesBrot on Fri, 27 April 2012 10:32
		Re: The NAS Receiver By: JMich on Fri, 27 April 2012 10:50
		(New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Wil473 on Fri, 27 April 2012 18:19
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Fri, 27 April 2012 19:26
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Gambigobilla on Fri, 27 April 2012 23:54
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Sat, 28 April 2012 02:46
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Sun, 29 April 2012 21:46
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Wil473 on Sun, 29 April 2012 23:20
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Mon, 30 April 2012 06:11
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Flugente on Sun, 03 June 2012 14:24
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Wil473 on Sun, 03 June 2012 18:14
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Sun, 03 June 2012 21:58
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Flugente on Mon, 04 June 2012 01:40
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Mon, 04 June 2012 03:52
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Flugente on Mon, 04 June 2012 21:08
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Mon, 04 June 2012 21:57
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Flugente on Mon, 04 June 2012 22:08
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Tue, 05 June 2012 00:25
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Flugente on Tue, 05 June 2012 00:29
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Tue, 05 June 2012 00:34
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: DepressivesBrot on Tue, 05 June 2012 00:36
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Flugente on Tue, 05 June 2012 00:38
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Tue, 05 June 2012 00:43
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Flugente on Tue, 05 June 2012 01:00
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Wil473 on Thu, 07 June 2012 22:38
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Madd_Mugsy on Fri, 08 June 2012 00:20
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: alwaysfirst on Sat, 01 August 2015 19:35
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Wil473 on Sun, 02 August 2015 01:44
		Re: (New) Common Attachment Framework (new title; was The NAS Receiver) By: Wil473 on Sun, 07 April 2013 19:19

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