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Um, perhaps you misunderstood- i meant that the flamers will benefit from being level with whatever they are shooting at, and will benefit even more from being level if they are no-explode.smoth wrote:Ok, I will add no explode sak.
It's superfluous because while a real flame thrower may be more efficient at simply hitting it's target at long range, alot less actual flame will strike the target, so damage would be significantly reduced, effectively resulting in the flame thrower being most effective significantly within it's outer range, not "most effective at far range". Basically, the expanding hit sphere isn't the right way to simulate a flame thrower any more than the solution smoth is now using, which is basically making it a simplified inaccurately machine gun with fancy effects.Argh wrote:Er, no offense meant Smoth, but no, they're not. Remember that patch I made? Flamers are unique weapon types, that actually expand, collision-sphere-wise, over time, and respect colormap, like this one, from NanoBlobs (non-relevant TDF lines have been removed, to keep this a bit shorter in length):flamer weapons in the other mods are short ranged high damage machine guns using a hard coded effect.
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///////////////////////WEAPON DEFINITION STUFF rendertype=5; lineofsight=1; turret=1; ////////////////GAME BALANCE groundbounce=1; sizegrowth=0.75; ////////////////GRAPHICS ColorMap=0.0 0.7 1.0 0.01 1.0 1.0 0.3 0.01 1.0 0.5 0.15 0.01 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1 0.1 0.04 0.04 0.3 0.025 0.01 0.01 0 0 0 0.01; texture1=flame; FlameGfxTime=1.15; size=1; explosiongenerator=custom:FLAMETHROWER_FX; ////////////////RESERVED STUFF CollisionSize=1.25;//NOTE- AFFECTED BY SIZEGROWTH TAG
At any rate, I would suggest using groundbounce, and just limit the range to 1.25 past the center of the canyon (that looks like, what, about 350?), so that it's not the same effect as a machinegun gameplay-wise, and make use of the expansion so that they're actually more efficient hitting targets near the end of their ranges. Just my $0.02, of course.
That's why free licenses are win: when the author disappears, you can still continue the work so the mod doesn't die.Forboding Angel wrote:Well there is a slight chance that EE am live again, but honestly without fang, the eesf can't do anything unless he gives us express permission.
Smoth could do it alone, Argh or KDR+zwswsg would need a team like you describe, simply because they lack the obsessive amount of time that Smoth and Fang funnelled into their projects. But yes, it'd be pale. But either way it's pretty academic.neddiedrow wrote:Honestly, none of the EESF/FGJL has the skills & and the time alone to take on what Fang did. Smoth has the skills, and if you took Forb/Mello/Wasp/Deci (Work/Art, Focus, Art/Sound, Balance) you'd still get a pretty pale product
