Heres a question

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

how do you give a vehichle .shp a death anim? I know they can have one because I remember the Cyborg Reaper had one, but I don't have fs installed anymore. Could someone tell me the tag?

CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

Art.ini Flags i do believe.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

first the shp must have the frames for the death-anim. They are in most cases placed at the end.
And afaik death anims work only for units without a turret.

then in art.ini you tell the game at which position/frame in the shp the death anim start.
StartDeathFrame= ;frame where the death anim starts
DeathFrames= ;number of frames of the death anim
DeathFrameRate= ;speed at which it's displayed (higher = slower; 1 fastest)

I assume from the way you asked your question, you don't know how to make SHPs or never made one. So i think it would be very hard for you to make a new death anim for an already existing unit. Because, if the Death-Frames aren't there, you have to make some.

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DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

I have made and converted many .shps before, but in the art.ini they do no have that specidic tag listed. So i did not know what was the proper tag. My .shps do have a death anim, I just couldn't get them to play ingame because you need the tag. (and I work with RA2/YR, where not a single vehicle .shp has a death anim.)

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Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

You can also use the Death Weapon logic. it is useful if you want to have a 'corpse' animation play after the initial Death animation by using next= in the animation tags (think gas) under the Artmd.ini..it also allows you some creativity with the damage/warhead tags as well. Wink

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