This thread is an awesome idea!

I have nothing to contribute, I haven't even tried modding on B22.

I've discovered a little bug that allows any gun to use two different mags. This can be useful when making an superweapon that, after a few shots, "depletes" its energy reserves and becomes a normal weapon. Or whatever.
First, you code an .ini file with your weapon, with your mag, rounds, everything. (Weapon.ini, or anything)
Then, make a new .ini file, with your new mag and rounds. (let's call it NewMag.ini)
Now comes the trick: you have to give the mag in NewMag.ini the exact same name of the mag in Weapon.ini. (the reason for that is explained later)
Then, when writing the Index.ini, make sure that NewMag.ini is loaded AFTER Weapon.ini. That way, when the game loads the weapon ( when you buy it or place it with the bunker editor) it will use its original mag, but, when you reload the weapon, the mag in NewMag.ini takes place, and you can shoot something totally different! Useful, huh?

That's actually really really ♥♥♥♥ cool.
Well done!
Cookie4u

By giving a self-propelling AEmitter an AirResistance value of 2 you can make it exist along a plane with a length proportional to the force of its thrust. By also removing its gravity (with GlobalAccScalar = 0) and giving it explosive particles for gibs you can essentially create a barrier that explodes when something passes through it.
I discovered this accidentally when messing around with a large rocket.


In this case the AEmitter is seen at one extreme, emitting, just before appearing back at its other extreme where the other emission can be seen. Anything that passes between these two points causes the rocket to gib, massively. The speeds reached between these two points is amazing, causing light, un-sharp, and short-lived particles to dig deeply into terrain.

Can you upload an example of that?

Ditto.

This needs to be stickied.

I have no doubts that it will be.

You can attach emitters to muzzle flashes.

I'll try and whip up a better example after I finish with finals, but here's the rocket with which I first noticed it. It has a bit of spin from the added emissions, but other than that I believe it'd be fully possible to get it to behave more stably.

I flew in between them and this is what happened.


Edit: If this is made into a stable weapon(well more stable then now), it should be called the phase acceleration field(PAF Gun).

Please get back ontopic guys, this thread's managed to stay on track so far.

You can make stuff gib itself. Just define the thing that gibs itself twice, second time it can be added to it's gibs. Should work with stuff emitting itself too. Or you can make a thing that emits a thing that emits the first thing and achieve an infinite circle of things. Pretty clear, is it not?

have you any idea how much lag that creates?
what piipu is trying to explain is the idea behind the phoenix bot. heres an example using the base.rte frag grenade:
the original is just a copy to define a different name, as is the next, the second one makes a copy of the copied copy and defines it with the name of the first copy, except this time it gibs the first copy aswell (and this doesnt ♥♥♥♥ up as it has been defined previously.) we have to redefine names so changes are made to the copies, and to prevent the crash caused by naming a copyof the same presetname. (eg copyof = face presetname = face in the same definition causes a crash.)
anyway, thats an explanation, try putting that code in any .ini around, it should load you a grenade called "frag loop" that makes a mess of everything, and lag quite a bit. try editing the example to include a coalition heavy.
if anything above is wrong, or the code doesnt load, thats because its 1145 here.

The Wiki would be a vastly superior platform for this thread. Consider moving your code snippets to the wiki and perhaps posting links in this thread?