Napalm Bombs in the Game Engine?

ColdSorrow · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 29 Jan 2007

Ok so I was making a mapmod for tiberian sun. I wanted to try and make a napalm bomb so here's what I did: Basicall I created an inaccurate discus projectile. When the projectile hits its target it spawns about 20 flame (FIRE1) animations. I did modify the dammage taken while the animation was active, but very little. Anyway heres whats interesting about it. It acts almost like a hidden particle system:

Destroys light structures (things like helipads) almost instantly.

Barely does any dammage to heavy strctures (refinaries, warfactories, etc.) Unless multiple bombs are dropped; in which case lots of dammage is taken very gradualy.

Unless hit directly, infantry slowly get burned.

Does barely any dammage to most types of vehicles

Whats more interesting is that the weapon seems to disregard the initial dammage its set to do. While making the weapon I reduced the dammage versus types to 1% and its origonal effects remained!!

I'll post the .RUL code later pending on what people make of this "napalm bomb" I discovered.

Banshee · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:37 am Post subject:

I've seen that done in an extremely old beta version of Final Dawn.

This forum is about researchs and not discoveries. To share your discoveries, write a proper tutorial about it in the tutorials factory.