Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:03 pm Post subject:
Recreating RA3 Natasha's abilities in YR.
Subject description: Multiple warhead effects on 1 weapon & airstrikes on vehicles.
First of all hello, this is my first post on this forum. I've been tampering with YR editing for a while now and found many useful information here. Recently I was looking for a way to create a sniper commando from RA3 based on soviet female sniper shp by SSTG. Here are some interesting things I discovered that might be useful to some people.
OK! So first, I wanted a long range weapon good against infantry, that could also shoot through many targets at once. That can be done using railgun logic and making it invisible. However I also wanted it to disable vehicles (I settled for it, in RA3 she could kill vehicle crew) - that requires EMEffect= warhead. The problem is when you add the tag, the weapon stops dealing damage, and EMEffect will also "shoot through targets". This is how through trial and error I discovered that using railgun particle system you can have both a non-damaging warhead AND damaging warhead. Here is how:
The important tags are adding Warhead= to the particle. You also need to add damage counter (MaxDC=) or you will get IE. I use HollowPoint4 but it doesn't seem to be important at all, as the weapon will deal damage specified by AmbientDamage= but all the warhead tags for this damage like InfDeath= and even Verses= are derrived from the warhead attached to your weapon, not the particle. I hope it sounds clear.
The other thing is pretty simple compared to the above. It is how to target vehicles with airstrike weapon. So first we will need to change the way our secondary (airstrike) weapon is treated - we need it to be used the way primary weapon can be used (it's the only way I know to target units with it). I used infantry deploy logic:
Code:
[NATASHA]
...
Deployer=yes
DeployFire=yes
You will also need to modify the part of the artmd.ini file for the deploy animation (I used prone) like in the [GISequence].
Now change the airstrike warhead to target vehicles:
Code:
; Flare that calls in an airstrike
[AirstrikeFlare]
Verses=0%,0%,0%,1%,1%,1%,1%,1%,1%,0%,0%
Rocker=no
Sparky=no
Airstrike=yes
We are done. Now you can use your primary weapon to kill infantry, disable vehicles for a long time, and when you wish to call in an airstrike you deploy her and now can target buildings and vehicles with bombers! It is nigh impossible to hit a moving vehicle with the airstrike so first you must disable it, but than - instant kill. The whole code for her along with all the needed stuff is in the attachment. Overall I think it is a nice soviet alternative for Tanya - while Tanya is close range and rapid attack, Natasha is long range and delayed.
The issues present are:
- you won't get airstrike cursor or targeting laser for vehicles, even though the airstrike works
- you can deploy a unit in water (in my example I made her able to swim)
The resources used in the attachment belong to:
Soviet Female Sniper by SSTG (improved by Feillyne)
Natasha Volkova cameo by partyzanPaulZy
Badger Bomber by MPL
Sounds from RA3
It may be fairly straight forward logic, but you've got some nerve calling anyone else n00b from what I've seen of your posts so far. Then again you are probably just trolling in this niche corner of the internet for some unfathomable reason. QUICK_EDIT
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Recreating RA3 Natasha's abilities in YR.
