Change Weapon Guidance Types

Thanks to Dr. Herbert Schneider for this tip!

Want a Laser-guided Harpoon? How about the U.S. Marine Corps' Sidearm missile (an ARM-guided Sidewinder)? Here's a quick-and-easy way to change the guidance of any weapon - without having to copy over your hard work done to create the perfect flight envelope and damage amounts. This tip requires a text editor.

This is a look at a standard *.JT (weapon) file:

[brent's_relocatable_format]

;---------------- START OF OBJ_TYPE ----------------

~

~

;---------------- END OF OBJ_TYPE ----------------

;---------------- START OF PROJ_TYPE ----------------

dword $2a06f
byte 1
byte 10
ptr si_names
word 0
byte $0
---> byte ? 0=Visual 1=Laser 2=IR 3=Radar 4=Antiradiation

Go ahead and create your Archer A-A missile, then open up the JT file and change it to a laser guided weapon. Instant Laser-guided Archer! No fuss, no muss!