Call it without arguments. (the arguments serve internal purposes)
It returns:
- a 2 dimensional Array.
- Sub-Array 0: List of all lasers that can be used by ships that currently exist in the universe.
If no existing ship at all can use a laser (such as the repair laser or terran lasers when there are no terrans) then this laser is not included.
If a laser does no shield or hull damage it is not included.
That array alone could be useful in some cases.
If you wish to include weird lasers, temporarily create a ship (argon race) before running this script. - Sub-Array 1: List of associated bullet speeds in m/s
- This script takes up to 25 sec to complete and can appear to lock up X3 for several seconds.
It does some heavy number crunching but I didn't find a better way to filter out invalid lasers that no ship can use...
Good thing it only needs to run once. =)
Just don't run it directly from a setup script... - You know that exact timing is very tricky in X3 so these are not exact values.
How exact the speeds are depends on the current FPS... and a little luck. =) - Super fast bullets (Vanilla Khaak beams do 6000 - 12000 m/s) can not be measured.
The highest I ever got from those was in the 3000 range. They simply travel too fast within 1 frame. - Flak is special...
Even through the bullet is super fast, the actual damage is created later by the secondary explosion.
That delay results in measured speeds in the 500-1200 range. - And because someone is going to ask:
This script doesn't contain a single hardcoded value. It's the good stuff. - There might still be a few rough edges. I'll find out when I actually use it. =)
That is how the X3 Vanilla values look. I only edited/sorted the laser names for readability.
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Spd: 437, Laser: Concussion Impulse Generator
Spd: 533, Laser: Alpha Flak Artillery Array
Spd: 1250, Laser: Beta Flak Artillery Array
Spd: 301, Laser: Alpha High Energy Plasma Thrower
Spd: 261, Laser: Beta High Energy Plasma Thrower
Spd: 519, Laser: Alpha Impulse Ray Emitter
Spd: 503, Laser: Beta Impulse Ray Emitter
Spd: 781, Laser: Ion Disruptor
Spd: 1511, Laser: Alpha Kyon Emitter
Spd: 1429, Laser: Beta Kyon Emitter
Spd: 2951, Laser: Gamma Kyon Emitter
Spd: 2945, Laser: Lasertower Weapon
Spd: 408, Laser: Mass Driver
Spd: 448, Laser: Alpha Particle Accelerator Cannon
Spd: 392, Laser: Beta Particle Accelerator Cannon
Spd: 286, Laser: Alpha Phased Shockwave Generator
Spd: 247, Laser: Beta Phased Shockwave Generator
Spd: 250, Laser: Gamma Phased Shockwave Generator
Spd: 267, Laser: Alpha Photon Pulse Cannon
Spd: 226, Laser: Beta Photon Pulse Cannon
Spd: 234, Laser: Gamma Photon Pulse Cannon
Spd: 635, Laser: Alpha Pulsed Beam Emitter
Spd: 700, Laser: Beta Pulsed Beam Emitter