[freespace2] primary weapons damage question

[Taylor Richards]

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 16:03, tigital wrote:
> hiya,
> 
> ...since getting the model loading code to work on OS X, I've been 
> able to complete the first training mission!  There were a few 
> glitches, but some of them I blame on byte swapping 
> chunksize/chunklength in modelinterp:  I'll be able to move this to 
> modelread soon...however there was one weird glitch that I need to 
> address:  firing at the drones with my primary weapons (lasers) 
> doesn't do any damage?  I can see them fire and apparently strike, 
> but they just didn't do any damage...so I just used the secondary 
> weapons (missiles), which worked fine ;-)
> 
> Anyone know a possible reason for this lack of damage, or where to 
> start looking?

Start in src/ship/shiphit.cpp.  Also try shooting the trainer to see if
it does damage to him.  If it doesn't (or does) then go through
src/object/object.cpp and go back a forth through src/weapon/weapons.cpp
and src/ship/ship.cpp.  Maybe you can find the problem in there. 
Someone who is testing the German version of FS1 for me says the same
thing happens when trying to shoot a cargo container in a training
mission.  I haven't found the problem yet so if you come up with
anything please let me know.

> 
> Oh, and another thing:  the demo program hangs when quitting, after 
> the two splash screens are shown...which brings me to a general 
> question:  does linux allow you to "free()" pointers that aren't 
> created via malloc()?  I've had to #ifndef __APPLE__ these because 
> they caused mallocdebug to crash...
> 
> tanx,
> jamie

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Taylor Richards <mtrs at bellsouth.net>