Small Electric Ball Projectile

cxtian39 · Commander **Joined**: 11 Feb 2016

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[ELECTBALL]
Shadow=no
AnimPalette=yes
;Translucency=50
AnimLow = 0
AnimHigh = 29
AnimRate = 1
UseLineTrail=yes
LineTrailColor=168,220,212
LineTrailColorDecrement=20

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

pretty cool anim. Approved!

How do you made it?

I think you want to set AnimHigh=20 as there are only frames 0-19
Maybe even AnimHigh=19, as i'm not sure if the specified frame is still rendered or not. On normal anims LoopEnd and End it is not, so 20 should be right.

I see RA2 has the same bug as TS, where Shadow=no still renders a shadow.

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BySc · Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 4:31 pm Post subject:

Looks cool, thanks.

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cxtian39 · Commander **Joined**: 11 Feb 2016

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

pretty cool anim. Approved!

How do you made it?

I think you want to set AnimHigh=20 as there are only frames 0-19
Maybe even AnimHigh=19, as i'm not sure if the specified frame is still rendered or not. On normal anims LoopEnd and End it is not, so 20 should be right.

I see RA2 has the same bug as TS, where Shadow=no still renders a shadow.

Several segmented lines with Noise modifier on their vertices
Shadow=no on rules definition can prevent shadow

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Augusto · Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:58 pm Post subject:

Woah! Really Good work! You can make a animated flameball projectile?

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

cxtian39 wrote:

Several segmented lines with Noise modifier on their vertices

ah in 3d, nice. how about giving the center sphere a slight pulsating effect by making it once bigger during the anim? (start/end 100%, in the middle 200% size)
You could then also use a Falloff map to have the outer sphere darker than the inner sphere, regardless from where you look with your camera on it.

Are you rotating the entire model or use a Noise modifier on the splines to animate the outer vertices of the splines?

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cxtian39 · Commander **Joined**: 11 Feb 2016

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

how about giving the center sphere a slight pulsating effect by making it once bigger during the anim? (start/end 100%, in the middle 200% size)
You could then also use a Falloff map to have the outer sphere darker than the inner sphere, regardless from where you look with your camera on it.

Will try

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

Are you rotating the entire model or use a Noise modifier on the splines to animate the outer vertices of the splines?

no rotating, just noising

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:30 am Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

I see RA2 has the same bug as TS, where Shadow=no still renders a shadow.

Because doesn't the Shadow tag in art just tell the game whether the animation itself has shadow frames, whereas projectiles drawing a shadow on the ground is handled with a Shadow tag on the projectile code itself.

cxtian39 · Commander **Joined**: 11 Feb 2016

OmegaBolt wrote:

Because doesn't the Shadow tag in art just tell the game whether the animation itself has shadow frames, whereas projectiles drawing a shadow on the ground is handled with a Shadow tag on the projectile code itself.

When rendering projectile and debris the game simply draws its shadow by turning every pixel to grey and the actual shadow frames are not used for shadow drawing. Shadow=yes/no in art definition seems to have no effect in this case.

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MasterHaosis · General **Joined**: 01 Nov 2010 **Location**: Serbia

cxtian39, that was good job man. I like that projectile

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

I think you want to set AnimHigh=20 as there are only frames 0-19
Maybe even AnimHigh=19, as i'm not sure if the specified frame is still rendered or not. On normal anims LoopEnd and End it is not, so 20 should be right.

AnimHigh should be 0-based as are all the other looping-related flags (incl. End) except LoopEnd. For whatever reason Westwood made LoopEnd 1-based.

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Mr.Hymn · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 01 May 2020

Thank you very much. BTW anyone know the electric splash warhead anim like in the gif photo? I think I even seen one long ago but I can't find it and don't know its name. Also can I have the building please it's so good.