SHP Railgun Particles by gamemate

Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

gamemate wrote:

; Particle system
[XXXXSys]
BehavesLike=Railgun
HoldsWhat=XXXXPart
Spawns=yes
SpawnFrames=1
SpawnRadius=1
Slowdown= ; Can be any number, .002 is a good value
ParticleCap=7
SpawnCutoff=10
SpawnTranslucencyCutoff=11

; Particle
[XXXXPart]
BehavesLike=Railgun ; This is a must
BehavesLike=Smoke ; This aswell
MaxEC=30
Image=XXXX ; Short small anims are the best ones
Translucency=25
Velocity=5.0
Deacc=.05
WindEffect=0
DeleteOnStateLimit=yes
EndStateAI=20
StateAIAdvance=3

As you can see in the code I have kept the BehavesLike=Railgun and added BehavesLike=Smoke both must be present for this to work. This is the workaround part, I have not tested with sparks but I don´t see why it wouldn´t work.

The smaller the anim the better it will look ingame, large anims tend to overlay each other.

Extra note about warhead explosions, by adding Damage=1 the warhead anim will show up.

You could check the main page of the AR2 site to see how the anim turns out ingame.

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Jah · Commander **Joined**: 23 Nov 2002

Great!

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areaSZ · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:19 am Post subject:

W

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Blade · Cyborg Commando **Joined**: 23 Dec 2003

Have you ever tested this on an infantry unit? I tested it in YR and got an internal error whenever the infantry attempted to fire (which sucks since I had a railgun infantry I would have lisked to use this on).

Jah · Commander **Joined**: 23 Nov 2002

You must exactly copy this code, do not add any other railgun tags like spirals, pertubation, etc... not needed

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Blade · Cyborg Commando **Joined**: 23 Dec 2003

I'm fairly sure that I implemented the code exactly as described here.

The DvD · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject:

Quote:

BehavesLike=Railgun ; This is a must
BehavesLike=Smoke ; This aswell

..Right... this is BS! The latter tag would simple overwrite the first Rolling Eyes

John Galt · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject:

It works.

The DvD · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:

How.

Does it give the same result as BehavesLike=Railgun,Smoke ?

John Galt · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject:

It seems the BehavesLike acts in a different way than standard tags. Looking in a disassembler, I see code similar to:

if Tag_Is_Set(BehavesLike,Smoke)
then
do_this;

if Tag_Is_Set(BehavesLike,Gas)
then
do_that;

Which points to the fact that this tag can "stack" its values.
Curiously, BehavesLike=Railgun/Spark code is nowhere to be found. Also, the code suggests that a comma-separated list will not work here (just like PowersUpBuilding= does not accept a list [yet]).

Jah · Commander **Joined**: 23 Nov 2002

Yet? do ya have some some plans for future?

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Allied General · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:13 am Post subject:

The DvD before saying something is BS, actually try it out.

Also since gamemate is a member of AR2 and a well established community member and has visual prove of this which has proven by Big Jah and myself (in private modification) it would make sense to think b4 u respond.

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The DvD · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:52 am Post subject:

Yes, but in ALL other cases putting a tag 2 times would simply make the value of the second tag overwrite the first...I'm applying basic logic here..

I'll try this myself, let's see if i'll come up with the same code.

EDIT: it's obvious the key tag here is BehavesLike=Smoke. Without it the game will crash if you put an image there. BTW the comment about using small anims is uneccesary (sp?) as you can easily change the

SpiralRadius=30
ParticlesPerCoord=.01
SpiralDeltaPerCoord=.035

values to make up for that Wink

Adding wind effects also make it look good.. if you would combine that with an anim that slowly disappeared (add translucency in art.ini and make it gradually disappear in the SHP) it would look even better.

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Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

lol, binary railguns.

Allied General · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:42 am Post subject:

lol that is funny but smaller anims do look better actually particle like anims look the best. If you use a massive anim, it just looks really bad.

SpiralRadius=30
ParticlesPerCoord=.01
SpiralDeltaPerCoord=.035

want to do a quick explaination of what higher figures, lower figures here, do?

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The DvD · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:11 pm Post subject:

SpiralRadius is the radius in leptons(?) of the spirals of the railgun... pretty self-explanatoiry #Tongue

ParticlesPerCoord requires very small values, but it determines the amount of pixels/particles used to draw the railgun. For example the Desolator's weapon should have a pretty 'high' value here.. since the spirals are solid.

SpiralDeltaPerCoord determines the length of every spiral. (As the delta determines how fast one loop is completed)