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I would like to know how to change the number of prox mines given in a pack from 4 to 1. I can’t find the value that determines the amount anywhere. (Specifically, I haven’t yet found it in the game table files, though it might be in there somewhere.) Though it might be in a plain text table, or worse yet, it might be a hard coded value.
If anyone knows how to change this value please let me know.
Thanks. Take care everyone.
- sushi

What game version? 1,2 or 3?

For D1 and D2, you cannot change it. Prox/smart mine powerups always come in packs of 4. The number mines is not coded into some data record describing the powerup, but each powerup has a unique id, and the number of contained items is hard-coded in the program.

Judging from this.
I would say Descent 3.

But then again. Playing D3, I don't remember how many proxies you get in a pack.

Sorry, I forgot to mention which game. Descent 3 in particular. The issue I'm faced with at the moment is that prox mines, betties, chaff, etc come in packs of 4 (or there about). I would like to set each to give only one, so that I can replace the countermeasure with an actual descent 3 robot and not have to worry about the game play being broken by the ability to deploy 4 relatively powerful robots after picking up a single item.
Thanks

I know Otherone has previously altered the number of MD rounds per powerup in Bill the Cat.

Don't know how he did it though; whether tablefiles or via some fancy scripting...

hmm usually powerups are set in the tablegam, the value \"ammocount\" defines how many you get. for the ProxMinePowerup the value is set to zero, i guess cause of all the mine-types in d3 are robots, as the proxmine is.

maybe the amount you get is hard coded in the modul generic.dll or in the ai-module of the proxmine robot.

DigiJo wrote:hmm usually powerups are set in the tablegam, the value "ammocount" defines how many you get. for the ProxMinePowerup the value is set to zero, i guess cause of all the mine-types in d3 are robots, as the proxmine is.

maybe the amount you get is hard coded in the modul generic.dll or in the ai-module of the proxmine robot.

The proxmine AI won't affect the powerup count, as the robot doesn't get instantiated until after you deploy a proxmine. The powerup itself isn't controlled by AI.

It could be hard-coded. That would of course mean there is no way of changing it, unless you have some scripting event that pulls out two \"rounds\" whenever someone picks up a proxbomb of course.

Try taking out the tablefile from Bill The Cat and see how he did it?