Spring RTS Engine

Notice that when you have a severely killed unit that fragments, the fragments of the model emit particles. Can these be customized?

Not yet. Lurker said something about hard-coded FX issues, I put just about the whole "sm├â┬Ârg├â┬Ñsbord" of hard-coded stuff in front of him, hopefully he'll look into this and make it so that we can customize this... maybe (gasp) per unit. Not going to worry about any of it, until it actually happens.

Would be trivial to add at first glance, I'll
try to cook something up in the next few
days.

Would help if we could somehow define different CEGs to use on the pieces, don't just make that a global setting please.

I'd prefer the option to define both a global default and specifics per unit. This coupled with death animations would make blowing things up a whole lot prettier.

Can't you just use emitsfx to make a weapon that's just there to look like debris?

Yeah but that takes more work (especially if you want different parts of a unit to break off) and adds a weapon. On a second though, the ballistic property would be difficult.

In case you missed the changelog entry, this can now be
done using the new unit FBI tags pieceTrailCEGTag and
pieceTrailCEGRange (where Tag is a string and Range is
an integer). If Tag is given, each piece of an exploding
unit randomly loads one of <pieceTrailCEGRange> CEG's
whose tag starts with the prefix <pieceTrailCEGTag> and
ends with a number in the range [0, pieceTrailCEGRange - 1]:
If range is 1 (default) then you only need Fire0 defined,
otherwise all possible <pieceTrailCEGRange> tags are
expected to be valid.

Is there a way to make a piece pick a certain CEG or have it not use one at all?

Nope, both of those would require specific
per-piece data to be set from COB prior to
the projectile's creation. It's all-or-nothing
for now.

Can't you at least make it depend on the FIRE bit?

Sure, although I consider it something of
a hack to use that flag as an on/off switch
(might be better to define a new one, eg.
PP_CEGTrail).

Just as well, as long as it means I won't get blood trails on dropped weapons.

hmmm since r4951 it doesn't work for me anymore (r4939 worked). I add the CEGTRAIL to the cob

Btw I prefer the fbi-only system, cus changing the cob of >100 units is a pain (perhaps add a 3. fbi param to overwrite cob values?)

Yeah, it seems the bitflags from COB do
not correspond to the actual flags used
by the projectiles. This is in CCobInstance:
Whereas this is in CPieceProjectile:
I'm tempted to equalize them, but that will
mean a lot of mods will have a lot of COB
scripts to edit. In the meantime, r4955
should work again (PP_CEGTrail has been
renamed to PP_NoCEGTrail and is now 64
for backward-compatibility).

Kloot wrote:I'm tempted to equalize them, but that will
mean a lot of mods will have a lot of COB
scripts to edit.

Why not just equalize the Spring internal side instead of changing the interface?

it still doesn't work for me. is it still bugged?
(I added the fbi values and reseted the cob - this way it worked in r4939)

Ya, it was. r4978 has the fix.

yup, works now again. BIG THX :3

Can someone luaize this so it makes more sense to me?

Kloot wrote:In case you missed the changelog entry, this can now be
done using the new unit FBI tags pieceTrailCEGTag and
pieceTrailCEGRange (where Tag is a string and Range is
an integer). If Tag is given, each piece of an exploding
unit randomly loads one of <pieceTrailCEGRange> CEG's
whose tag starts with the prefix <pieceTrailCEGTag> and
ends with a number in the range [0, pieceTrailCEGRange - 1]:

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// CEG definitions
[Fire0]
	...
[Fire1]
	...
[Fire2]
	...
[Fire3]
	...

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// unit FBI
pieceTrailCEGTag = "Fire";
pieceTrailCEGRange = 4;

If range is 1 (default) then you only need Fire0 defined,
otherwise all possible <pieceTrailCEGRange> tags are
expected to be valid.

Particularly the fire0, fire1, etc part.