[Akira]

How would you go about turning off the graphic of the green lines that come up whenever all the patriots lock onto other targets? also would this affect anything other than just not having the green lines showing?

[pi314159]

I assume you just delete the graphics code from the patriot binery stream object... thereby making it invisible. I could easily be wrong, though...

[Mishkin]

In factionbuilding.INI

The actual "green ark" is this piece of code

Object PatriotBinaryDataStream
  ; *** ART Parameters ***
  Draw = W3DLaserDraw ModuleTag_01
    Texture = EXBinaryStream32.tga
    NumBeams = 1                      ;Number of overlapping cylinders that make the beam. 1 beam will just use inner data. Current max: 10
    InnerBeamWidth = 4                ;The total width of beam
    InnerColor = R:0 G:255 B:0 A:180  ;The inside color of the laser (hot)
    Tile = Yes                        ;The height of the texture will determine how many times to tile the texture to fit without scaling.
    ScrollRate = -0.25                 ;Scrolls the texture offset this fast -- towards(-) away(+)
    Segments = 20                     ;Number of segments -- more segments give smoother curve (but more joints) Current max: 20
    ArcHeight = 30.0                  ;The height of the arc
    SegmentOverlapRatio = 0.0000      ;This value overlaps(+) or separates(-) the segments by ratio
    TilingScalar = 0.25                ;Stretches tiling if value > 1.0, otherwise shrinks it (1.0 is natural)
 End

  KindOf = IMMOBILE
  ClientUpdate = LaserUpdate ModuleTag_02
    ;nothing
  End

  ; A patriot uses this stream as an event triggered thing, not something turned on and off with a state.
  Behavior = DeletionUpdate ModuleTag_03
    MinLifetime = 600   ; min lifetime in msec
    MaxLifetime = 600   ; max lifetime in msec
  End
End

There is also a reference to it in the patriotbattery code itself

Behavior = AssistedTargetingUpdate ModuleTag_07
    AssistingClipSize = 4                       ; How many shots to make when asked by someone of my kind who has a RequestAssistRange weapon
    AssistingWeaponSlot = SECONDARY             ; And the weapon to use.  Should have huge range and no natural clip.
    LaserFromAssisted = PatriotBinaryDataStream ; Stream to draw from the requestor to me
    LaserToTarget = PatriotBinaryDataStream     ; Stream to draw from me to the target
  End

[Akira]

so how woudl i go about doing this?

[Mishkin]

I guess you are new to INI coding. Check out the beginner's guide
http://www.deezire.net/modules.php?n...ewtopic&t=5795

For this problem, try to ";" out the first piece of code I gave you and see if that works...