Disruptor and Railguns friendy fire/damage spread

Shotman · Civilian **Joined**: 08 Mar 2007

Hi ppl...

Is there any way to turn off Disruptors and Railguns friendy fire or damage spread so they wont slaughter their own? I have tried to change AmbientDamage to normal damage, but it didnt work... Confused

Any ideas?

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Ixonoclast · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:26 pm Post subject:

Railguns work with damaging particles. I doubt if it's possible to make them friendly-fire-friendly.

Besides, there are only two railgun units with ztyping BUILDING limits, so they're easily micro-manageable.

The Disruptor is already immune to its own fire, some tag about being immune to its own weapon.

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

No, there's no way to prevent friendly fire on all other units.
You can only add TypeImmune to those units (disruptors have that already) so they are at least immune to their own fire, which means one of your disruptor can't damage anymore another disruptor. But they'll still damage enemy disruptors or other friendly units which aren't disruptors.

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Shotman · Civilian **Joined**: 08 Mar 2007

Nevermind... And is there any way to turn off damage spread (damaging multiple units at once) for these units? Limiting damage only to target is another solution...

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ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

Damaging multiple units in same line is entirely AmbientDamage= system which also has the elevation bug and with railgun, the particles themselves don't do any damage unlike the flame thrower particle where it is coded to do so.

Shotman · Civilian **Joined**: 08 Mar 2007

And how can I turn it off? Ive tried to change Ambient damage to normal damage, but it didnt work.

Heres the code:

; Ghost Stalker's Rail Gun
[LtRail]
Damage=150
ROF=60
Projectile=Invisible
Speed=100
Warhead=RailShot2
Range=6.00
Report=BIGGGUN1
Anim=GUNFIRE
AttachedParticleSystem=SmallRailgunSys
IsRailgun=true

; Mammoth's Rail Gun
[MechRailgun]
Damage=200
ROF=60
Projectile=Invisible
Speed=100
Warhead=RailShot
Range=8.00
Report=RAILUSE5
Anim=GUNFIRE
AttachedParticleSystem=LargeRailgunSys
IsRailgun=true

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

AmbientDamage=0 Wink

However this doesn't work on the sonic beam iirc due to being hardcoded to do ambientdamage.

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Ixonoclast · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:07 pm Post subject:

It still boggles my mind why you would get rid off the ambient damage...

Ambient damage is what makes railguns and sonic beams such fantastic weapons.