Charging Cannons and Lasers

Cannons and lasers with the CHARGING feature must have their key binding held down and released to fire. It has two fields: chargeMaxTime and chargeMind.

• chargeMaxTime is the time in seconds needed for the weapon to achieve maximum charge, letting it deal its defined damage.
• chargeMin is the fraction (between 0.0 and 1.0) of charge at which the weapon may fire, but with less damage.

{ 17000
    features=CANNON|CHARGING

    chargeMaxTime=2
    chargeMin=0.5
    -- Charge time:        2 seconds.
    -- Min Discharge time: 1 second.

    cannon={
        damage=25
        range=100
        muzzleVel=100
        roundsPerSec=1
        color=0xFFFFFFFF
    }
}
{ 17001
    features=LASER|CHARGING

    chargeMaxTime=2
    chargeMin=0.5
    -- Charge time:        2 seconds.
    -- Min Discharge time: 1 second.

    LASER={
        damage=25
        range=100
        width=2
        decay=1
        color=0xFFFFFFFF
    }
}

When a charging weapon is fired, it creates a unique effect (its size depends on how charged the weapon was):