Changing ammo capacity for a class

[BanjoOz]

Does anyone know were to find this?

 

I want to give the Heavy more shots with the LMG, and it seems ammo capacity is tied to a soldier's class, not their weapon itself.

 

I've been poking around in XComGame.upk and was assuming it would be somewhere in XGWeapon, XComWeapon, or even XGAction_Fire but can't find anything I can make sense of!

 

Hopefully someone better at reading the files can help out?

 

Either I missed it, or perhaps it's in a class-defining file I can't find yet?

Edited October 28, 2012 by banjo_oz

[tbkiah]

try XGcharacter, or XGUnit

[PepprmintButler]

I'd say XGCharacter, I combed XGUnit today and failed to find relevant code.

 

EDIT: nope, it's not in XGCharacter either. We are still missing big chunks of the scripts. Were are the class perks and ability effect definitions for example ??

Edited October 28, 2012 by PepprmintButler

[tbkiah]

I'd say XGCharacter, I combed XGUnit today and failed to find relevant code.

Story of the life of an XCOM EU modder.. you can comb through 100 files and it seems like you are linking variables... and then it suddenly stops and you don't know where the game gets the final variable from.

 

Edit: The worst is when it end with XGTacticalGameCoreNativeBase, because it seems like 95% of the s*** going on in that file doesn't have an effect on the game.

Edited October 28, 2012 by tbkiah

[PepprmintButler]

OK, let's start with what we have :

 

XGWeapon has

defaultproperties { iAmmo=100

and

function ApplyAmmoCost(int iCost)
{
iAmmo -= iCost;
// End:0x2e Loop:False
if(iAmmo == 1)
{
	iAmmo = 0;
}
}

 

Based on that it would be reasonable to suppose that ammo consumption by class is defined with iCost.

Which I cannot find anywhere.

 

BTW, XGWeapon has a whole lot of functions related to a Overheat mechanic, possibly intended for lasers, and which are activated by eWP_Overheats. I haven't tested it yet but it sounds interesting.

[bokauk]

BTW, XGWeapon has a whole lot of functions related to a Overheat mechanic, possibly intended for lasers, and which are activated by eWP_Overheats. I haven't tested it yet but it sounds interesting.

 

I believe Tayot84 was looking into that a little while ago, but not heard anything since.

[Daemonjax]

OK, let's start with what we have :

 

XGWeapon has

defaultproperties { iAmmo=100

and

function ApplyAmmoCost(int iCost)
{
iAmmo -= iCost;
// End:0x2e Loop:False
if(iAmmo == 1)
{
	iAmmo = 0;
}
}

 

Based on that it would be reasonable to suppose that ammo consumption by class is defined with iCost.

Which I cannot find anywhere.

 

BTW, XGWeapon has a whole lot of functions related to a Overheat mechanic, possibly intended for lasers, and which are activated by eWP_Overheats. I haven't tested it yet but it sounds interesting.

 

You want to find where that function is called. The parameter iCost doesn't have to appear by that name anywhere else... it could be called iApples when the function is called....

 

e.g. ApplyAmmoCost(iApples);

 

I'm not saying it is, but the function's int argument could just be a return from another function, and so you'd never find iCost...

 

e.g. ApplyAmmoCost(SomeOtherFunction());

Edited October 28, 2012 by Daemonjax

[BanjoOz]

Thanks for the help so far, folks! What should be a fairly basic, core mod is pretty tricky, eh?

 

I combed through XGWeapon and XGUnit myself and found nothing... will look at XGCharacter too but I'm still thinking it will be in some class-ability script.

 

This is pretty much way over my head, so I very much appreciate the help from you "big guns" here in finding the right code!

 

Probably the most fun experience of learning to mod XCom without official tools is just how much everyone is pooling their knowledge and working together to find and solve things. :)

[gurachn]

More ammo for the LMG would be a very welcome addition.

Considering that it doesn't do dramatically more damage than the assault rifle, you would thing that it would be able to suppress for a few turns at least.

[BanjoOz]

More ammo for the LMG would be a very welcome addition.

Considering that it doesn't do dramatically more damage than the assault rifle, you would thing that it would be able to suppress for a few turns at least.

Agreed. It seems odd to me that they have LESS ammo instead of more, especially since - as you said - damage isn't that much higher than an assault rifle.

 

And what kind of "support gunner" goes into battle with three bursts in his or her gun?!

 

Still can't a value in the upk, sadly, and it's driving me nuts... why is something so basic so hard to find/change? :(