Making new weapons

GeckoYamori · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject: Making new weapons

I'd like to make some new weapons for my mod, I guess it requires plenty of scripting and I'm not really sure how to start.

First I'd like to make a fireball that acts like the one in RA1. Is that even possible?

Second, a nuclear explosion. I got the animation from RA2, now I just need to do the coding. I heard somewhere that a weapon can't have a damage radius bigger than 3 cells?

Also, is it possible to make V3 rockets like in RA2?

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John Galt · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 4:04 am Post subject:

New weapons are easy... most of the time.
Fireball.. how did it act in RA1?
Nuke... true, spread can't be higher than 3 cells. So, you'd have to use airburst weaponry to expand the area of damage.
V3... no, I don't think that is possible.

Clazzy · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:13 am Post subject:

It literally fired a long-range fireball at the enemy.
V3 rocket emulation could probably be done with a slow-moving projectile that arcs and is high, you won't be able to shoot it down, though.

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Jango · Soldier **Joined**: 18 Nov 2003

For the Fireball you can use a weapon kind of proton blast of the cyborg commando, a projectile with rot=1 with a low speed with trail but then the hills are a problem (INMO a BIG and annoying problem).
For the nuke, well, if you use a suicide vehicle with explodes=yes maybe you could make a powerful explosion.

GeckoYamori · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject:

So... How would I add trails to the projectile? Don't know the line.

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

It's in the art.ini you add a Trailer= to the image that is used for the projectile.

An example:

Code:

[DRAGON]
Trailer=SMOKEY2
Rotates=yes

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Morpheas_modder · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:00 am Post subject: Re: Making new weapons

GeckoYamori wrote:

I'd like to make some new weapons for my mod, I guess it requires plenty of scripting and I'm not really sure how to start.

First I'd like to make a fireball that acts like the one in RA1. Is that even possible?

Second, a nuclear explosion. I got the animation from RA2, now I just need to do the coding. I heard somewhere that a weapon can't have a damage radius bigger than 3 cells?

Also, is it possible to make V3 rockets like in RA2?

who ever told you the damage radius is a lier!! I made a nuke just by copying the high explosive warhead and making more powerful.
then i made its range 20 cells!!! then i had to mess around with some projecitle stats and when i used it HOLY COW! half the enemies base was gone. it is kinda noobish but hey its cool to see.and for trails on the wepon you go to

***projectile statistics***
this is an example

[ChemMissile]
Arm=2
High=yes
VeryHigh=yes
Cluster=8
;Shadow=no
Proximity=yes
Ranged=yes
AA=no
Image=MISLCHEM <<<<< this tells the pc what images to use
ROT=4
Color=DarkGreen
IgnoresFirestorm=yes

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Jango · Soldier **Joined**: 18 Nov 2003

True: A warhead can't have a damage radius bigger than 3 cells.
True: A weapon can have a damage radius bigger than 3 cells (clusters).

Mike · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:22 am Post subject: Re: Making new weapons

Morpheas_modder wrote:

GeckoYamori wrote:

I'd like to make some new weapons for my mod, I guess it requires plenty of scripting and I'm not really sure how to start.

First I'd like to make a fireball that acts like the one in RA1. Is that even possible?

Second, a nuclear explosion. I got the animation from RA2, now I just need to do the coding. I heard somewhere that a weapon can't have a damage radius bigger than 3 cells?

Also, is it possible to make V3 rockets like in RA2?

who ever told you the damage radius is a lier!! I made a nuke just by copying the high explosive warhead and making more powerful.
then i made its range 20 cells!!! then i had to mess around with some projecitle stats and when i used it HOLY COW! half the enemies base was gone. it is kinda noobish but hey its cool to see.and for trails on the wepon you go to

***projectile statistics***
this is an example

[ChemMissile]
Arm=2
High=yes
VeryHigh=yes
Cluster=8
;Shadow=no
Proximity=yes
Ranged=yes
AA=no
Image=MISLCHEM <<<<< this tells the pc what images to use
ROT=4
Color=DarkGreen
IgnoresFirestorm=yes

The only lier here is you................

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hellfire · Commander **Joined**: 09 Jan 2003 **Location**: Canada

Quit being an asshat Morpheas_modder you just killed your own argument by throwing the stupid clusters in there like we told him to do earlier. Your a n00b and there is very little chance you know something we don't.

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