Fireball firing weapon

llamabeast · #1 July 3rd, 2007, 08:34 PM

You can't copy weapons anyway can you?

Anyway, thanks for all the responses. Saulot - why 1 capped damage and armor negating, specifically? That's helpful though, I might end up using that (I can always update it in August if there are new fixes).

Flysprites do indeed seem very strange. I also can't get any to work which aren't in the manual.

Sombre · #2 July 3rd, 2007, 08:39 PM

Re: Legchop - Are you sure it actually hits the entire square though? AOE weapons like snake bladder stick, poison ink etc etc don't work as AOE if you put them as #secondaryeffect, they just hit the one target or don't work at all.

Saulot · #3 July 3rd, 2007, 08:40 PM

Why 1 capped armornegating damage? So the weapon does damage, and triggers the secondaryeffect (which only is triggered when the weapon deals damage).

Hopefully the modding manual will be updated with more sprites. It's one of the limited factors behind another nation I've been considering.

Edit:
Yep, I've seen 3 units with the crippled affliction in a single square, with only 1 of the units having lost a hitpoint. (Works almost exactly as I want it to).

llamabeast · #4 July 3rd, 2007, 08:59 PM

Aha, I begin to understand why the #secondaryeffectalways command is so in demand.

Edi · #5 July 4th, 2007, 03:42 AM

If you want a weapon that fires fireballs, here's how you do it:

set damage to desired value
set nostrength
set area of effect
set sprite
set otehr desried stuff
The #fire command makes the damage type be fire, so that fire immune units are not affected.

Voila, instant fireball weapon.

This one has nothing to do with #secondaryeffectalways, which will be fixed in next patch.

llamabeast · #6 July 4th, 2007, 05:32 AM

But Edi: How do you set the sprite for a fireball? If you know I would be very happy to hear. And the #aoe command doesn't work.

Sombre · #7 July 4th, 2007, 07:22 AM

Indeed. There's no way (that we know) to set a fireball-esque sprite (or particle effect or whatever) and aoe on weapons doesn't work and never has.

But other than those slight problems, Edi's spot on

Oh and fireballs do fatigue damage as well as fire aoe damage.

Edi · #8 July 4th, 2007, 09:27 AM

Okay, so if aoe is foxed for next patch, then that would be the solution. It's in the list in red anyway.
Assuming we got #aoe working and we know we get #secondaryeffectalways with next patch, then setting a slightly larger aoe for a #secondaryeffectalways weapon that only does AN fatigue damage would work.

I'll take this up with Johan when he comes back from India.