Making a Flame Weapon

WingDingo · Medic **Joined**: 28 Jun 2005 **Location**: USA

Yeah, I tried cloning all entries that fall under the flame tanks weapon, and wanted to speed up how fast the stream actually moves. (As far as I know, flamethrowers in real life are not slow at all) But the new weapon didn't show up ingame and did no damage.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, can a new flame weapon that uses a stream, be independent from the one already in the game?

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Alexander C Bukington · Grenadier **Joined**: 09 Mar 2007

I thought all you had to was was shorten the duration of the flame animation to get it to fire faster.Try coping the code again and only change the amount of frames the animation plays.

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

The Animation has nothing to do with this.

And yes you can make a complete new Flamethrower. You have to clone the ParticleSystem and Parctile too.

The duration how long the unit fires the stream is defined in the ParticleSystem [FireStreamSys] with the tag Lifetime=. With Lifetime=1000 it fires for a very long time.

the speed, how fast each flame moves is defined in the Particle [FireStream] with the tag Velocity=.

The damage it does is defined here too, with the tag Damage (how obvious Wink

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nikoleah · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 30 Mar 2007

Well... Hmm... This is related in topic by someway but... It's possible to create chem sprayer?
Without creating animations... Just using particles and such

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

some researches about this took already place here
I couldn't get it work because the particle needs BehavesLike=Gas to mutate infantry to visceroids and to make it move towards the target it needs BehavesLike=Fire. To add both doesn't worked, so i didn't found a solution.

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nikoleah · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 30 Mar 2007

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

some researches about this took already place here
I couldn't get it work because the particle needs BehavesLike=Gas to mutate infantry to visceroids and to make it move towards the target it needs BehavesLike=Fire. To add both doesn't worked, so i didn't found a solution.

I didn't wanted that it mutates into visceroid... But eyah... I copied every code from you from there... It didn't work... It shows only one gas cloud and it disappears after one second... It goes only one range :S

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

BehavesLike=Fire is only a comment. Take it back in and remove BehavesLike=Gas.
Then it works, but only to the northern direction. Because the FLAMEALL anim has 8 different facings while the CLOUD2D only has one facing.
To make it visible on all facings, you have to create a new cloud anim following the structure of FLAMEALL.

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nikoleah · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 30 Mar 2007

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

BehavesLike=Fire is only a comment. Take it back in and remove BehavesLike=Gas.
Then it works, but only to the northern direction. Because the FLAMEALL anim has 8 different facings while the CLOUD2D only has one facing.
To make it visible on all facings, you have to create a new cloud anim following the structure of FLAMEALL.

And you're createdu're created? I want it then... Lol

CalChillin · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 23 Oct 2007

i like the look of it and when i tried to do it before it went strange so im going to try this