Spring RTS Engine

Foxomaniac wrote:In recent news, someone liked the way coms spawn in supcom :

http://froob.iamacup.com/media/video4.avi

Wow, that is really cool.

hrmph wrote:

Foxomaniac wrote:In recent news, someone liked the way coms spawn in supcom :

http://froob.iamacup.com/media/video4.avi

Wow, that is really cool.

wow hrmph is alive

Foxomaniac wrote:In recent news, someone liked the way coms spawn in supcom :

http://froob.iamacup.com/media/video4.avi

Reminds me of the time travel in the Terminator movies.

http://froob.iamacup.com/media/stuff.avi

All those look really nice! It took a long time for someone to actually start taking advantage of what spring has to offer :/

http://froob.iamacup.com/media/shoockwave.avi
cool!

so, can we make the damage come when the shockwave reaches it? and blow units away? (at where the shockwave is and not inside it)

How do you make the small "impacts"? Invisible particles that show up only for a moment?

Thank you all for your comments!

KDR, I used the particle spawner (class=CExpGenSpawner) to delay their appearance.

so, can we make the damage come when the shockwave reaches it? and blow units away?

No idea how I could do that, probably the best way is to bug one of the Script Wizards .

But lets not derail Nixa's thread.

In Spring the damage always expands with a shockwave but the computations to know how fast it expands are arcane.

Ling_Lover wrote:http://froob.iamacup.com/media/shoockwave.avi
cool!

so, can we make the damage come when the shockwave reaches it? and blow units away? (at where the shockwave is and not inside it)

Animations like this make a good argument why it would be nice to be able to define secondary warheads in weapons. The first boom could be one event. The splatter effect (or shockwave after effects I guess it could be said) with all of those neat mini puffs could be a separate event. As it is, its beautiful but the effects have no teeth representative of them.

Well, the shockwave stuff was overkill, but I liked teh explosion and the little flying projectiles that came out of it... I always did love explosions like that...

These effects are AWSOME!

Now make them bigger. And explodier. TA has always been a game of absurd over the topness...so units shoulden't just explode...they should explore REALLY big.

And are we any closer to Death Animations? All these effects need are death animations to back them up, and we have a very good looking mod.

MadRat wrote: Animations like this make a good argument why it would be nice to be able to define secondary warheads in weapons. The first boom could be one event. The splatter effect (or shockwave after effects I guess it could be said) with all of those neat mini puffs could be a separate event. As it is, its beautiful but the effects have no teeth representative of them.

Not really true. it would be pretty trivial to add a weapon in the unit's script that detonates at the same time as the shockwave goes out. or to set the explosionspeed of the weapon hit to match the shockwave.

Nemo wrote:

MadRat wrote: Animations like this make a good argument why it would be nice to be able to define secondary warheads in weapons. The first boom could be one event. The splatter effect (or shockwave after effects I guess it could be said) with all of those neat mini puffs could be a separate event. As it is, its beautiful but the effects have no teeth representative of them.

Not really true. it would be pretty trivial to add a weapon in the unit's script that detonates at the same time as the shockwave goes out. or to set the explosionspeed of the weapon hit to match the shockwave.

Can you create an example? I don't believe this is the case, but I do trust what I can see.

These particle effects are pretty cool and look good, but don't overdo it. The particle limit of 20k (or less, depends on user) isn't really as much as one might think. At worst you won't see all of them in large scale battles.

MadRat wrote: Can you create an example? I don't believe this is the case, but I do trust what I can see.

I misread your post; I thought you meant the fancy unit explosions.

However, what you mean is still somewhat possible.

There are a few ways to accomplish this, but the most straightforward would be to have a clone weapon with the same characteristics fired alongside the real one with a slightly higher airtime. Either that or just slow down the explosion speed of the main weapon, which would give a similar effect.

Post in the AA 5.0 thread guys..