Spring RTS Engine

I have some weapons I need to make, and I am wondering if any animation is possible, and to what extend. I would also like to confirm some tags I read in Maestro's TA weapons Tutorial.

1. Is it possible to change the color of the flame thrower render.
2. Is it possible to create a unit that shoots a projectile that increases in size the further it is from the launcher (i.e. like a sound wave)
3. do the pitchtolerence and tolerence control the firing arc or does spring use some other system to keep that in check.


Thanks

firearc tags control the arcs. The tolerance tags are left-overs from TA

Flamethrower colour change: Might be possible with that mod-defined thing

Size change thing: No

Would you please tell me the syntax for those (the firearc tags)?

Also, which tag governs the push/pull of explosions/implosions?

do you know were I can find the information for

that mod-defined thing

?

thanks

im not a modder so im not 100% sure but the impulse factor controls the push/pull of explosions. careful though as there were probs with the rockets in E&E havin such a high impulse factor that they did more damage than the regular damage

impulse factor is tard. Unit damage each other through collisions so when your impulsefactor is high units take nasty damage.

Guessmyname wrote:Size change thing: No

That sounds like something completely new we should develop and implement.

Now, I am not trying to be anoying, but I really need that information so that I can continue to develop my mod, and I do not know the location to find out how to implement it. I also have not seen it in any of the files I have looked at in other peoples mods .

so I would greatly appriciate the syntax for the fire arc tags, thanks.

Two other thoughts for weapons, which I know are not possible

1. be able to change a shot into a unit
2. be able to have shots raise terrain rather than create craters, make hills

MrSpontaneous wrote:1. be able to change a shot into a unit
2. be able to have shots raise terrain rather than create craters, make hills

1) No.
2) Try negative impulsefactor, negative damage, that sort of things.

Ingenious.

zwzsg wrote:2) Try negative impulsefactor, negative damage, that sort of things.

And don't forget to use an armour class so that it does no damage to units (weapons with negative values actually give health rather than taking it, and beyond the max health limit of the unit)