Setting units on fire?

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 17 Oct 2006, 20:58

how about a flammable=1 tag in the unit fbi that allows the unit to be set on fire, according to the firestarter tag in the weapon tdf. Other tags that should go with this is: burntime tag for how long the unit stays on fire for and burndamage - how much damage per second being on fire does to the uint. A tag to control whether being on fire stops autoheal might be a good idea too.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 17 Oct 2006, 21:09

GMN, you are a pyromaniac's messiah.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 17 Oct 2006, 21:21

Hell yeah, for the little sadist in all of us.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 17 Oct 2006, 22:01

I'm somewhat suprised no-one thought of this before, to be honest...

esteroth12 · Post by **esteroth12** » 17 Oct 2006, 22:13

also, the BOS scripting better have a new function, OnFire() where you put the custom explosion sfx... we don't want a basic fire on the unit because without that it can be used for anything, eg acid, drowning, buring, etc. with the right explosion in the OnFire function

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 17 Oct 2006, 22:47

Alternatively, get HitByWeapon to also report on what weapon the unit was hit with. Much more flexible! (and units on fire could be done via this method, including damage per second)

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 17 Oct 2006, 22:57

Plus would alow you to script in the "Running with arms waving befor colaping in a burnt heap" animation. Mmmmmm... Barbequ Boy.

aGorm

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 18 Oct 2006, 00:30

aGorm, stole my words..

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » 18 Oct 2006, 02:11

Guessmyname wrote:Alternatively, get HitByWeapon to also report on what weapon the unit was hit with. Much more flexible! (and units on fire could be done via this method, including damage per second)

It will be in the next release. At least according to a note that gnome left me on IRC "HitByWeapon(anglex,anglez,weaponid) in next spring ver will allow you to tell what weapon just hit a unit. Based on ID tag in weap tdf."

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 18 Oct 2006, 17:24

So, if a set of weapons have the same id, that id will be returned same for each... (cuts down on the number of 'ifs' you'd need for animations for all flamy weapons)

Brilliant.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 18 Oct 2006, 17:47

Now give me arrays or binary operators and we could have lists of weapon IDs to compare against instead of endless long if statements....

PicassoCT · Post by **PicassoCT** » 18 Oct 2006, 19:41

That would allow making the SpringComunityBoard Mod...

+1 to Setting units on Fire

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 18 Oct 2006, 20:14

rattle wrote:Now give me arrays or binary operators and we could have lists of weapon IDs to compare against instead of endless long if statements....

Or you could use the id like a bitfield and...

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 18 Oct 2006, 22:02

Wondering if it's possible to use IDs twice since spring does not care about IDs anyway. So every flamer could have ID 0 (or 1) etc.

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Setting units on fire?

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Setting units on fire?