Why does the lightning from lightning weapons now instantly disappear?

[Forboding Angel]

It used to hang around for a moment before disappearing. Now it disappears almost instantly.

I've tried duration and on the offchance beamtime. Neither do anything. Is there any way to control this?

[Google_Frog]

I recall this issue from a while ago, I patched it quickly. From my weapondefs_posts.lua

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-- https://github.com/spring/spring/commit/dd7d1f79c3a9b579f874c210eb4c2a8ae7b72a16
for _, weaponDef in pairs(WeaponDefs) do
	if ((weaponDef.weapontype == "LightningCannon") and (not weaponDef.beamttl)) then
		weaponDef.beamttl = 10
	end
end

You were looking for a visual, since it has no effect on sim: https://springrts.com/wiki/Gamedev:Weap ... er_Visuals

[Forboding Angel]

Why is ttl for lightning stuck under beamlaser visuals? :-/

[Kloot]

because 1) lightning-cannon ttl used to be hardcoded to 10 frames up until 98.0 and 2) there is a policy of not introducing spurious new *def tags.

[FLOZi]

And as such, the wiki page is a 'put it in the most relevant place' display of tags unless you want me to turn it into a massive Venn diagram. The two way table linked in https://springrts.com/wiki/Gamedev:Weap ... weaponType has further detail, though it looks like it has been vandalised or something as BeamLaser is missing. Anyway I updated it to reflect that beamTTL has meaning for LightningCannon (it's on weapons not visuals tab which suggests it has more than purely visual impact for BeamLaser)

[Forboding Angel]

because 1) lightning-cannon ttl used to be hardcoded to 10 frames up until 98.0 and 2) there is a policy of not introducing spurious new *def tags.

Thanks for that, kloot

Same @ Flozi