Spring RTS Engine

Is there any way to script-fire the 'fall out the sky trailing smoke' behaviour in planes? Is it also possible to change the standard smoke trail to something else, and finally, is it possible to have it run a killed() script at the same time? I'm trying to make a plane crash on fire, with bits of it falling off as it crashes

Perhaps a little lua trickery will solve the problem.

Perhaps a little lua documentation will solve the problem.

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Guessmyname wrote:Is there any way to script-fire the 'fall out the sky trailing smoke' behaviour in planes? Is it also possible to change the standard smoke trail to something else, and finally, is it possible to have it run a killed() script at the same time? I'm trying to make a plane crash on fire, with bits of it falling off as it crashes

Currently, no. However....DO WANT

Wait, so if I have a plane it will do the flaming and falling thing regardless? I don't have to do work on it..?

Nope, it's hardcoded and happens occasionally.

Both good and bad, then...

I want more control, though...

What would be really nice is to have planes and other units with Death animations, to set those units to a NON-TARGET if its killed.

I can't remember how many times that a lead plane in a formation has been killed, the death animation starts, My AA still shoots at it while it stays alive, and seems to get stuck in a loop of the animation which requires massive overkill damage to actually vaporise it and finally making it a NON-target.

All the AA guns would just stay locked onto the falling/dead aircraft and ignore all the other valid targets, and my base and the AA would usually get raped in the process, when it should not have.

Enemy units ignore falling aircraft in .75

Peet wrote:Enemy units ignore falling aircraft in .75

ORLY!

It's about time!

lawl... Thats a nice pic...

Shame the cigar looks like it was photoshopped in

Yeah, give it a more oily and black outlined form

Actually, adding script control over plane crashing would be quite easy. We'll need a new COB get/set constant that will expose crashing property (bool crashing) from the Unit class. That should do nicely. I can make a patch for this, but I'm not sure it will really be needed by someone.

Actually, adding script control over plane crashing would be quite easy. We'll need a new COB get/set constant that will expose crashing property (bool crashing) from the Unit class. That should do nicely. I can make a patch for this, but I'm not sure it will really be needed by anyone.

I'd use it (And I can imagine smoth not wanting the 'fall out of sky' behaviour for his flying commanders). Can we also change the effects emitted by the plane as it crashes? (Replacing the default smoke with a custom fire effect for example)

EDIT: And if we could controll how fast it falls and spins, that would be quite awesome

EDIT: On a slightly random note, I've just discovered a 'break' command in scriptor (or at least, I've discovered that if you type 'break' into it it colours it blue like it does all the other commands). Anyone what that command does?

Not an idea.

This is quite useful, I want some control, too...

gmn: http://www-numi.fnal.gov/offline_softwa ... break.html

Hmm. Sounds useful

Son of a bitch, I have been looking for something like that...