Non-Aircraft Trailers

Overmind · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 05 May 2022

How can we add smoke trails to aircraft that are not AircraftType, like Kirovs ?

I tried with
TrailerAnim=
TrailerSeperation=

and it does nothing.

Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:57 pm Post subject:

TrailerAnim= is used on debris & anims, use Trailer= for aircraft & projectiles. I can't remember if Trailer will work on jumpjets tho.

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Overmind · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 05 May 2022

Trailer= is for AircraftType only, it does not work fo anything else. That's why I'm trying a different approach.

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Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge Apocalypse mod:

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Mig Eater · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:31 pm Post subject:

You could attach a dummy anim to the unit with AttachEffect & then add the TrailerAnim= to the anim.

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Overmind · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 05 May 2022

Can you give an example ?
Thanks.

And AttachEffect is Ares thing.
I'm trying to do this in clean R2YR.

Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2023 9:05 am Post subject:

You'll need Ares to get it to work. The only way in vanilla RA2/YR would be to give the unit a continually firing weapon to spawn the trailer, but it would mean the unit couldn't use a normal weapon.

Another option would be to use a line trail instead, which works on ground/jumpjet units.

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