G'evening gentlemen. (tips hat). Lets get going while I'm still on my feet. Yes and no. Inventory is reserved for non special items, which you can define in the appropriate shop.json file; ie you create a shop/tag which deals exclusively in ballistic weapons with default inventory and special values (30 and 20 respectively iirc). You put all ballistics, including rares are in basic inventory (count >1, rarity >0). But, for instance you put TTM's as "special" items, along with their rarity value, and a weight value, with +5 increments (+ is weight 5, ++ is 10 and so on). What will happen when you access the store, the game will roll two tables; "inventory" with regards to two numbers: it will roll rarity and populate the inventory with everything that is set to appear, up to the inventory limit. Some things may not appear for a long time, some things will be always there, all part of the background sim. Second number is "special": things get rolled in the first rarity roll, and their weight is deducted from the "special" value (for instance, "special" of 20 would get you four TTS+ or two TTS++ or any combination of the weight values up to "special" value", so you would never get many of them, regardless how much you sacrifice to the RNGesus), so that's basically a limiter on more powerful items you can get. Max items in the shop is still 30, but some of them have a second criterion to be shown, and can never be abundant. Count of 0 means unlimited items to buy, thats correct. So for lostech items you put rarity to regulate how often they should show up, and weight to regulate how many of them can be present in the shop inventory at the same time. Game balance solution.
The game engine does not recognize/can't animate the second shot. What will happen is you will fire, spend two ammo, hit the same position for double damage, and the game will try to animate two shots and fail miserably showing one leaving the barrel at right angles, racing into space, or wherever, and second will hit for double and your pilot will say they missed. My thinking is that AC shots are not physical objects, and they don't show up properly as double shot, as opposed to LRM and SRM objects. If you make an AC that has indirect fire, it will shoot through terrain, not parabolic. The tracer seems to be a sprite instead of an 3d object (but I think someone will correct me about terminology). Same story for PPCs and lasers. My UAC solution is that I described them as integrated weapons, with ammo inside, and rounds leaving the barrel basically one right behind the other. I'll upload one as an example, I think the description should clarify a bit. I didn't manage to create new ammo types, although I have ammodefs, I'm just lazy now.
In regards to the VersionManifest, I still hold by my recommendation to use separate folder within the data folder, and (just a hunch) try to avoid suffixes similar to default item (UAC_0-STOCK). I don't use that naming string and everything works, and is saved in a custom folder within data folder where .jsons are. Also, in the readme I uploaded, you have the manifest lines relevant to customsweapons folder inside; just copy the folder with the ACs and add the lines to the VersionManifest.csv somewhere in the autocannon weapondef group (backup first and all that), and the game will load them in. I didn't see any problems with your original files, but I'm kinda sleep deprived, soooo...
Oh, before I forget, you can switch your WeaponEffect-Weapon_AC5 to eaponEffect-Weapon_MachineGun. Looks and sounds like a wet chunky fart gun, but it gives you multifire. To make it look like an AC, an assetbundle would have to to dismantled.Shouldn't be an issue. Mine looks like this Weapon_Autocannon_UAC5-Krueger,WeaponDef,data\customweapons/Weapon_Autocannon_UAC5-Krueger.json and it works perfectly, kills the meat, wrecks the metal (I do think I might be doing something wrong here). No issues with pathing. I thought it would be, but none whatsoever.
Found them today
They are in the assetbundles folder, chrprfmech files. In those files there are references to the specific parts of the Mech mesh, including hardpoints. I don't know how to edit them, but I did try to switch them around. References in the VersionManifest only instruct the Data.Director what to load from where, not where to put it. The hardpoint files in the manifest are there so the game knows there are some hardpoint files. Chrprfmech files define what it looks like AND on which chassis is that mesh hooked because they are written specifically for each chassis and dont have data that the game doesnt (ie chrprfmech_dragonbase_001 doesnt have any hardpoint mesh for right torso). If I just switch in the hardpointdef file, nothing happens because the game loads the hardpoint I gave it in the .json and then promptly attaches it to the chrprfmech it originated from and it proper position, and it doesn't work on a different 'Mech it (asset files have tons of internal data containers defining everything Battletech). Example: tried to give the dragon Awesomes twin PPCs on the right hand - fail. Blank hand, like there is nothing installed, icons for energy weapons are there, but nothing shows on the model. BUT tried to add the ballistic hardpoint from the Dragon's left torso to the Dragon's right torso. While nothing is equipped, nothing shows, and I have a ballistic HP in the RT. When I equip a weapon, it displays the model on the dragons LT, although the weapon is installed in the RT. So how I gathered it works when the HP is loaded, it calls on its parent container, which tells it where to display, and on which model, defined by the prefabidentifier and prefabbase in the chassisdef (prefabidents are chrprfmech_mechname_001 files and show as one of the containers in chrprfmech files, probably main parent one). To make them work I think some combination of prefabidentifier, prefabbase and hardpoints should be devised. Other than that, extracting 'Mech meshes from prefab files and combining them is the only way I know of. Or assetbundles need to be dismantled and spliced among themselves, but ultimately, that would kill the game. Mutate it into something very definitely unBattletech.And my UAC thingie. Kicks ass. For 15 rounds.
Edit: Grammar. My greatest nemesis sometimes.
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