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Post by Rocket Witch on May 20, 2017 0:22:16 GMT
Has science gone too far? How to: 1. Open Limits.txt 2. Change ArcLampPumpSubModule ↳ PowerSupplied_W to 1e12 The laser was actually fairly awkward to design. It could do with a much wider beam for game ranges, but I have no idea how to gauge that. While attempting to test it I ran into this... situation.
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Post by Someone on May 20, 2017 0:28:25 GMT
Solar Sail met strong wing... Does the game calculate recoil for laser?
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Post by Rocket Witch on May 20, 2017 0:35:32 GMT
Does the game calculate recoil for laser? I think not.
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Post by samchiu2000 on May 20, 2017 0:37:47 GMT
Would you like to attempt a 1Mm test?
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Post by underwhelmed on May 20, 2017 0:40:16 GMT
I don't think it calculates recoil, but laser ablation appears to exert a force.
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Post by ash19256 on May 20, 2017 1:39:01 GMT
I pale at the amount of power that a Ce:LLF variant of that laser could put down range.
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Post by David367th on May 20, 2017 2:04:37 GMT
Rocket Witch it probably should've been called The Eye of Terar
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elukka
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Post by elukka on May 20, 2017 5:23:33 GMT
I don't think it calculates recoil, but laser ablation appears to exert a force. Yeah, and this actually matters for missiles! If you only have armor on the nose, a laser can actually yank your missile around enough to expose the side for long enough.
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Post by apophys on May 20, 2017 9:08:54 GMT
I got one with a cost comparable to the stock Gunship. Design file: Finger of Boron Almighty.txt (5.56 KB) Limits increased: Laser power input, laser aperture, laser range, turret inner radius, radiator height, radiator width. No modded materials. The laser on this beast would have an effective range of 10 Gm (intensity 24.9 MW/m 2), which is 7 times the diameter of the Sun. P.S. Rocket Witch - I notice your laser has a modded material: platinum for the output coupler.
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Post by Rocket Witch on May 20, 2017 21:30:01 GMT
Would you like to attempt a 1Mm test? :D I made a few attempts —in one of which I burst a Corvette like a melon via its flare bay in all of 3 seconds— but was getting frustrated at combat not starting at 1Mm against unarmed targets that won't pop the laser with a single Sniper Coilgun shot. P.S. Rocket Witch - I notice your laser has a modded material: platinum for the output coupler. Yeah, I did intend for it to be all-stock but noticed that a bit late, changed it to silver, got three errors and was like "ah fuck it". Forgot this kind of thing should be fused quartz. I'll probably tinker with it more later, hopefully getting the rod shorter and widening the beam to the point of maximum effectiveness at 1Mm.
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Post by dwwolf on May 21, 2017 16:45:05 GMT
40m beam not big enough ?
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Post by Rocket Witch on May 22, 2017 21:23:45 GMT
Probably not! Someone posted months ago about how materials have various maximum ablation rates. Once a laser can achieve this (I forgot what the value is to cover all materials) out to 1Mm, the laser can only be made more effective by making it affect a larger area to damage more different things as well as increase accuracy. Aperture size doesn't equal beam size, I think. To my knowledge a smaller aperture will worsen focus, ultimately giving more of a canal defence light than an actual laser as it is made smaller.
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Post by overloaderdave on May 29, 2017 19:53:36 GMT
Thou shalt know fear from your TRUE gods! Yes, that's a lot of dV. Yes, it weighs a lot. Yes, it's nearly 1Mm wide. a puny several yottawatts of intensity 1km away from a mirror larger than 1km. I can certainly see that focusing mirror not breaking and of course, the big daddy of reactors. The 1GW design is a single pixel; this thing is 2km in all directions. Fast way to remove all fissiles from the solar system A couple sidenotes: Firstly, the actual ship design broke the game and I had to graft it out. Secondly, why on earth is the lasing nodes value 32-bit? If you make the limits.txt have a value higher than good ole' 2.147e9 you can only reduce the value; if you click the slider the game understandably crashes. Thirdly, the radiators for this are of such a scale that you can't field them in sandbox thanks to the enormous texture. But it does one-up the finger of boron almighty and makes the best possible first post.
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Post by RiftandRend on May 30, 2017 0:24:17 GMT
Gigadrill
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Post by Rocket Witch on May 30, 2017 6:00:53 GMT
Thou shalt know fear from your TRUE gods! I have created a monster...
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