Hi, I'm thinking of making a medusa-ish mod that will use lua to slowly turn the opponent into stone or sand (I don't care if doing so kills them or not, I just want it to change the material they're made of). I'm almost sure this is possible and I know what most of the code would probably be (so don't tell me the whole thing, I need to learn how to do lua) but how would I specify particles on an enemies body and change their material untill all of them are converted into that material?


(and if this idea sounds really crazy or stupid or impossible, pardon my ignorance of programming)


Thanks, Cadwaller

Not sure if atomgroups are read only.

I think witty did something similar with the atomizer, but it was a gun. I suppose you could do something like it with radius. Not sure about the looking.

Atomitizer just use flashwhite.

And MO.Material is read only.

Just to clarify, that means its not feasible.

Until it's not read only, but nobody knows how long that will be.

*if it's ever not read only

There's no real reason for data to make it possible to dynamically change an object's material settings.

Would it be possible to make several actors, each with a different stage of the stone "transformation" and cause the lua to periodically replace the previous actor with the next model, making it seem as if the actor were turning into stone? (ie. first actor: normal, 2nd actor, normal but with one limb stone instead of flesh, 3rd actor, normal but with 2 stone limbs, etc.)

Yes, you could do that, however, you would have to make a version of that actor for each actor in the game. By that I mean a dummy, a dummy with one limb made of stone, etc. then a light soldier, a light soldier with one limb etc. then a Dafred with one limb made of stone... You could see how that would get tiring, as well as making it incompatible with anything aside from vanilla content.

yeah... I thought of that after I wrote it oh well, hopefully I'll be able to do it next build, thanks for the help everyone


Cadwaller

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