Spring RTS Engine

Something like the quake 3 grenade laucher, it could have a
time delay on explosion
or/and
bounce count then explosion
along with explosion when it hits a unit as it is moving along.

I do not particularly need it for gundam but I was thinking that it is an interesting weapon type that we do not have.

groundbounce=1 make the weapon bounce on the ground, might not work in spring though - I've never tested it

I think it works only for certain weapontypes.

groundbounce doesn't work for ballistic weapons. Come to think of it, I've never seen it used, actually.

I thought trepans lua physics allowed for these sorts of customizations?

AFAIK there's no lua control of projectiles and no plans to add them.

How would you determine how much height it lost per bounce? 20%? Another tag?

Maybe just reuse groundbounce for it?

(ie. groundbounce=1 means it bounces back at full energy, groundbounce=0.5 means it loses half it's energy or velocity etc.)

I had no idea that we had a tag for that... I feel kinda stupid...

I tried ground bounce on a rocket and the rocket didn't bounce. What am I missing?

Well no one is sure we have one, let me check..

EDIT: nope, not implemented in Spring

I think it's implemented for flamers but only for those.

I searched through the entire solution for 'groundbounce' in MSVC, but didn't find anything.

This seems like something I would like to work on, but I don't think I should try to include it in .75. .75 is theoretically feature complete, and this would be a new feature.

cool, I look forward to whatever you work out.

ILMTitan wrote:This seems like something I would like to work on, but I don't think I should try to include it in .75. .75 is theoretically feature complete, and this would be a new feature.

Well you could work on it and once a patch is ready we can see whether 0.75 has already been released or is really feature frozen or there is still room to commit the patch...

Finally got back down to coding this afternoon. Getting things to skip off of the ground is easy, but now we need a way to determine how long a groundbouncing projectile can last, such as a new tag. Does "projectiletimeout" sound right? Is it available?

Timeout? Sounds good.. Seconds, right? Milliseconds and ticks are too short..

Hope this turns out well, I may have a use for it, grenades don't have enough pop.. Bouncing bombs DO!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

Whatever tag you feel fine with ilm is good enough for me. I honestly do not have a unit which can utilize this in my gundam project but I look forward to what 44 and others can do with it.

That link brings me to another question I had. How do I determine if it should skip of the water. Some things you might want to explode when it hits the water, and some skip of the surface, and some off of the floor. Would I be able to use underwater weapon for that?

hmm... could just be like a waterexplode tag to denote that it would explode underwater?