Allow Lua To Create and Destroy Projectiles

[Argh]

Create:

Pretty straightforward: let a Lua function create a new projectile of (type, start position, vector, target).

Would allow for chained weapons, explosions that trigger more weapons (think cluster grenades, etc.) and other fun things.

Destroy:

Lua function to destroy (projectileID). Would probably require another function getting projectiles in a sphere, for short sorts.

Would allow for MIRV-type weapons without a lot hack-arounds, new types of Shield, anti-missile weapons that weren't vlaunch, and other useful things.

[Kloot]

For the second part:

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Spring.SetProjectileCollision(number projectileID) -> nil

[Master-Athmos]

+1

Would be cool to be able to kill a projectile and simply order another weapon to fire from its last position without much hassle (I guess just giving it a CEG to call preserving things like the direction would be a good idea)...

[Argh]

Spring.SetProjectileCollision(number projectileID) -> nil

OK, so if we set that to true, the projectile dies? Does it then give us an Explosion to read the position of?

[KDR_11k]

There's nothing to set to true, you just call it for the projectile and the projectile's collision code is called which usually makes it explode.