Hey guys.

First question: I'm making an airstrike target designator, and to do this I want to have it fire a shot that gibs into an emitter which drops a bomb from up high. Unfortunately I can't work out how to make a gib (the emitter) always face one direction on the map when it appears - it instead faces the direction that it was shot (with an 0 rad gib spread) or anywhere (with a 3.14 rad gib spread) when I want it to go straight up no matter what direction it came from. Is this do-able? I'm going to try making the emitter be slightly negatively affected by gravity so it should orient itself upwards but this seems... unreliable. It could snag on things and start pooping bombs out sideways.

I've also got plans to use this emitter to check if there is open sky above the target area, by firing a particle upwards and seeing if it hits anything for X distance and calling the airstrike only if it does not hit anything. This means I'm quite keen to get the fixed-emitter idea to work rather than using a workaround.



Second question: I'm also making a cluster bomb. At the moment it breaks open 20m above ground level using Lua, gibbing an open bomb casing and two emitters which spit bombs left and right as it falls. Naturally the emitters don't -always- line up with the bomb casing which looks pretty strange when it goes wrong. I'd like to fix the emitters to the bomb casing (an MOSRotating), but Cortex Command doesn't like me attaching emitters to an MOSRotating. I lifted the code for attaching parts to things from the Dreadnought code, so what am I doing wrong? Is it impossible to do add emitters to something which isn't and actor or helddevice?

Here's the code:

In those AEmitters, make sure they their EmissionAngle = 270 so that it shoots down. And make sure the AEmitters have OrientToVel = 0.

AddEffect = AEmitter
PresetName = Cluster Bomb Emitter 1


bomb:
AddEmitter = AEmitter
CopyOf = Cluster Bomb Emitter 1
ParentOffset = Vector
X = 0
Y = -3

I think.

Thanks Kettenkrad! I was using AddAttachable (guess that only works for actors) instead of AddEmitter.

I figured out why the emitters were not working anyway when attached to the bomb. It's because the bomb casing gibbed to easily, and the force of the bombs being emitted broke it after only a couple of bombs were released.

Now to get the airstrike working correctly...

The Red Loki pack contains the Area Strike Caller. Feel free to take a look at its code and use it as you wish.