as the title says. how do you do that?

currently i have a gun that shoots an TDExplosive that explodes on hit on anything and shoots 36 particles in 360 degrees. and i want either the TDExplosive to deal 50 damage on hit or the individual particles to deal 3 damage on hit.

Burstdamage does not work since it is not an emitter.

p.s. sorry for poor punctuation and capitilazation, too lazy to do it atm (and spelling).

that isnt how wounds work. you could do hacky stuff with lua, by casting rays, but if you dont really know how the wound system works, you should learn the basics before moving into scripting.

Cortex command isn't the kind of game where you have "Shotgun round 20 damage" or "Grenade Explosion 120 damage." Damage is based on the specific actor's wound types. So if you have an actor with 2 damage per wound, than you take 4 damage for 2 hits. If your actor has 0 damage set per wound, 50 bajillian bullets will cause no damage. And alot of lag.

Simply put, damage is based on wound types, not round/particles.

Except for lua based hp damage weapons.

I need to remember to add "Not Possible Except with Lua" to every explanation I do about ini coding.

Ok. Thanks for the information. i did not think particles could do damage on hit, but i thought you might be able to with the TDExplosive. I do have another question that might seem obvious but, if you have HitMOs = 1 on for TDExplosive that is shot from a gun... isnt it supposed to interact with the person it hits? because myn is not and i fear I'm making a obvious mistake but i have read the wiki and looked at other files and dont know why it wont interact with MOs (i even tried many different velocities).

So you want the grenade to explode while coming out of the barrel of the gun?
That has to do with FireIgnoresThis being on or off, and where the MuzzleOffset is in relation to the barrel. If you want the grenade to explode on fire, set FireIgnoresThis to 0 and put the MuzzleOffset somewhere inside the gun.

No. what i want is for it to explode when it hits an MO. like an actor or a door. but altho i have HitMOs = 1 on. it just passes through them for some reason. At the moment it only explodes when hitting a wall or dirt. here is a bit of the code.



it is called mass because I'm making a Mass Driver. (the emitted particles are supposed to give the push and i wanted them to do damage but i now know that is not possible unless i use lua which i might)

Is the sprite visible? How fast is this thing going? If you have a null.bmp sprite, or a very small one, you will have collision problems, as well as if you have it going much more than 100.

I have varied the speeds and it has problems with all the speeds. it is currently 1*1 pixel. i have attempted with 10*10 but it had the same issues. I might just change over to using an AEmitter instead but i would prefer to keep it as TDExplosive because they do exactly what i want except for the fact that they are passing through MOs. i will try testing with the image being bigger and see if it works.

Post your .rte, because you're clearly doing something wrong.

That said, 1x1 is no dice, it has to be at least 3x3 for reliable hit detection.

ok. so it does work with a 10*10. last time i tried with that i probably gave it a high velocity so it would just pass right by them. My bad. Thanks for the help and putting up with my idiotic questions.

Quick tip: Use the variable "GibImpulseLimit = 0.01" to have an object explode on impact no matter how slow the TDExplosive goes.

Thanks Cricket. i have the impulse 1 which is enough because it's going at 100. I wish it to go faster but aparently 100 is the limit of positively hitting. i will lower it to .01 though because for some strange reason of a certain door at a certain angle in a certain way makes it richochet =\ so I'll do that in hopes of making it impulse'ible to ricochet (see that joke? it's funny... I hope).