More control over aircraft deaths

[FLOZi]

break is generally seen as a bad way of programming.

[imbaczek]

omg since when? knuth didn't like goto, but break...?

[FLOZi]

If you have to break out of a loop that generally means either;

The condition for the loop is flawed.

or

you're forcing your way out of an infinite loop, which implies that the condition for the loop is flawed.

[rattle]

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while (true) break;

if (true) {
	this=that;
	break;
	that=this;
}
for (a=0; a < 10; ++a) {
	if (a == 5) break;
}

Break does have it's uses, i.e. if you go through a list (or an array) to find a member of it and then want to literally break out of the loop (not the function, break doesn't work like that) instead of going through all the remaining elements. Or switch, which Cavedog should have added to COB, ffs. :P

[manored]

How about making falling units health bars to not go crazy and anyoing then they are falling too? :)

Also, why stop at aircraft? Death animations for ships and big ground units would be cool too :)

[Peet]

Death animations for everything else are easily scripted; the only reason the aircraft one is there is because it is not possible to implement through the script.

[j5mello]

isn't that what Killed() is for???? (the uber death anims for surface units)

[Peet]

Precisely.

[yuritch]

Ok, here is the patch. I cannot test it now as I made it at work (and my boss won't understand why I need to start something that looks surprisingly like a game on a workstation), so if somebody could compile and test it, please do so.
Basically it introduces a new set/get constant, CRASHING (96).

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get CRASHING

returns 1 for a crashing plane, 0 otherwise.

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set CRASHING to 1

starts a plane's crashing sequence. I'm not sure whether

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set CRASHING to 0

will abort it or not.

[Argh]

Yay!

[Snipawolf]

Oh yeah baby!

Flinging part off, emit-sfx, and more!

[manored]

Now how about pilot kbots jumping off the cockpit? :)

[Neddie]

Now how about pilot kbots jumping off the cockpit? :)

Spawning a new unit using LUA, then animating a fall of it, unhiding the real one when it hits earth.