Adding new infantry death animations

GeckoYamori

OK, so I have this new animation I want to use for tiberium-based infantry death. What exactly do I do to add it?

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

You cant add on extra warhead death anims, but you can replace them, or use "Explosions=" However I dont think its possible for infantrytypes to have "Explosions=" Im not 100% sure, but I remember reading it somewhere hmm. I know the jumpjet does use a explosion anim, so do cyborgs, but I think those are special case.

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mavrick · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject:

cause they do, think about it, what happens when 30 disc throwers get hiit by an artillery, one blows, n' it's a chain reaction...

The DvD · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:23 pm Post subject:

but mavrick, that explosion logic fetches the anim from the unit's primary weapon warhead Smile

mavrick · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject:

so, use it's secondry weapon warhead, a range of 0...

The DvD · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:41 am Post subject:

I meant to say that the fact that disc throwers explode does not mean that the explode= tag work on normal infantry Wink

mavrick · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:11 am Post subject:

i see.. my bad

Den Leiw · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject:

so GeckoYamori's idea won't work?

The DvD · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

you mean Akult's? It'll only work if the infantry is a cyborg or killed in mid-air..

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

Another method maybe, replacing the death sequences, look at the tiberian fiend as it uses its own flaming death? I havent looked into it much, but it might hold some promise.

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Remus · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 2:57 am Post subject:

The DvD wrote:

but mavrick, that explosion logic fetches the anim from the unit's primary weapon warhead Smile

This got me thinking... What about a death weapon that causes no damage but is tied to the animation desired? Then again, I guess that wouldn't work because two animations would probably play simultaneously-both the desired new death animation and one of the original death animations.

EDIT: Oops. I completely forgot this was for TS. I was thinking RA2 at the time. Are there death weapons in TS? I forget.

Allied General · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:22 am Post subject:

no >__<

isn't infdeath=3 like kinda unused?

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The DvD · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:32 am Post subject:

akult wrote:

Another method maybe, replacing the death sequences, look at the tiberian fiend as it uses its own flaming death? I havent looked into it much, but it might hold some promise.

That is in every infantry's image!

Clazzy · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:47 pm Post subject:

I consdered that you could add death animations directly to the SHP itself.
Die1=134,15,0
Die2=149,15,0
Die3=0,1,1
Die4=0,1,1
Die5=0,1,1

That's the standard sequence for most infantry in the game, now Die1 and 2 are both used (normal death and animation) but the remaining three aren't (probably because of external animations, though).
3 is an alternate explosion animation (and where is that used?), 4 is concussion (electro death?) and 5 is for flame deaths (obviously there's flameguy.shp tied in with this). So the third animation is seemingly never used, perhaps that could be used as a new death animation?
If I'm wrong, someone please correct me, by the way.

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The DvD · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject:

The rules.ini's own help comments say this:

0=instant die, 1=twirl die, 2=explodes, 3=flying death, 4=burn death, 5=electro

0 just erases the object and shows nothing.
1 is uses for infantry dying from bullets
2 uses the infantry explosion that is set at the top of rules.ini
3 is an anim in which the inf is torn apart (dunno why it says flying death?)
4 uses FLAMEGUY
5 uses ELECTRO