Weapon that stays on the ground? (napalm, poision,...)

[knorke]

I have not seen this suggested yet but it would be quite cool for gameplay:
a weapon that somehow keeps active after it hits the ground.

this could be used for things like burning napalm, poision clouds or psi-lightning-storms.

[Gabba]

Nice idea. If feel modders would go crazy with this.

[AF]

Like the demons main weapon in nanoblobz? Which leaves a nogo zone of orange radiation for a while after it hits its target?

[knorke]

it does?
i only know the glowing ground after d-gun, but this doesnt do damage and cant be animated to have flames and stuff (i think)

[Fanger]

I belive argh did that by slowing down the explosin speed so that it takes a while to finish blowing up...

[Snipawolf]

I would do it by making an invisible weapon that shoots like 20 shots in a few seconds with perfect accuracy.. AOE with DOT...

Edit: damn, argh beat me to it.. Wrong Fanger, he uses the way I just said...

DEMONGUN_ACTUAL]
{
name=Area-Denial;
rendertype=1;
ballistic=1;
turret=1;
range=900;
weaponvelocity=350;
model=NullPoint.s3o;
burst=20;
burstrate=0.05;
sprayangle=50;
reloadtime=8;
areaofeffect=128;
impulsefactor=0;
impulseBoost=0;
craterMult=0;
craterBoost=0;
explosiongenerator=custom:NULL_FX;
tolerance=1000;
AvoidFriendly=0;
CollideFriendly=1;
ExplosionSpeed=128;
[DAMAGE]
{
default=1;
ULTRAHEAVY=1000;
HEAVY=1000;
REFLEC=1000;
LIGHT=1000;
}
}

[Fanger]

hrm, that would work, but I slightly dislike that setup for the fact that:

1. very long times wont work well,
2. if the weapon fires and the unit is moved there may or may not be issues ( I could be wrong on this depends on the time I suppose)

[yuritch]

1. very long times wont work well,
2. if the weapon fires and the unit is moved there may or may not be issues ( I could be wrong on this depends on the time I suppose)

3. If the unit is killed, the effect will end. Not a desired behavior, I suppose.

[Fanger]

well yes and no I suppose..

[imbaczek]

A good workaround would be the one I used in my barrage spell - create an invisible, invincible gaia unit that keeps shooting at a given spot. Needs LuaRules though, aka spring 0.75.

[MadRat]

This is where having the ability to define a multi-break explosion or a warhead attached secondary explosion/effect to the main device would come in handy.

[Fanger]

eh that would require a rewrite of the weapon code.. at least some of it..

[MadRat]

Or perhaps it would only be a slight change to the explosion. The weapons themselves would target and all that as they do now, only post-detonation would they need be changed. The warhead is a rinse and repeat effort. Multibreak explosions would likewise be rinse and repeat efforts.

[rattle]

Start coding madrat. Less talk, moar code. :P

[KDR_11k]

Make explosion generators able to emit projectiles.

[Snipawolf]

THAT would be awesome...

I already thought up something, a volcano explosion :D

Ground cracks open and starts hurling rocks and flame upwards, anything caught by it is dead meat.

So many more possibilities, what a great idea...

[Fanger]

zomygosh explosion generator emitting projectiles.. TEH AWESOMENESS OF THAT..

[rattle]

If we get a universal weapon type then as well...

[Fanger]

and a cure for cancer and world peace for all..

[MadRat]

Start coding madrat. Less talk, moar code.

If this engine was done in BASIC it would of been done already. I'm not so hot reading C# syntax. The C language already gave me fits trying to pick it up. Learning BASIC as a first language really stunted my development.