weird flying Missile, warning:1MB big gif Options

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Hi

I want to show you a quite weird rocket behaviour. Maybe you found something strange too.
At least it hits the target but with a strange path.

This is a result of giving a rocket a projectile with these entrys

CODE

[DaishiRak]
Damage=100
ROF=90
Range=11
Projectile=Hellraiser
Speed=15

[Hellraiser]
Arm=2
High=yes
Shadow=yes
Proximity=yes
Ranged=yes
AA=yes
AG=yes
Image=MISSILE
ROT=3
Acceleration=1

the rocket always flies 3-4 cells in a straight line and then starts turning and homing.
Maybe someone also can explain me why TS/FS behaves this way with this projectile.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Jan 25 2007, 09:19 AM

[Machine]

Like Cosair said; I think it must be related to the acceleration and ROT.

Anyways it's a nice result; It caught my attention, I'll test it

EDIT:
When I started testing it, I found that missile was a shp; I used that shp in the weapon, couldn't replicate what happened in your case, changed the image of the projectile to a voxel, and got a weird behaviour, quite funny , the missile disappears before it gets to the target, but it still explodes in it.

Post the full coding; I mean the projectile coding in art.ini and the warhead also.
Also does this always happen, or just sometimes?

This post has been edited by Machine: Jan 25 2007, 02:06 PM

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Like Cosair said; I think it must be related to the acceleration and ROT.

EDIT:
Post the full coding; I mean the projectile coding in art.ini and the warhead also.
Also does this always happen, or just sometimes?

i also think that it has something to do with the ROT acceleration values.
anyway here the code for art.ini

CODE

[MISSILE]
Trailer=SMOKEY2
Rotates=yes

it's an original shp (already in TS/FS) and was never used by westwood/ea. so just add this and you have a new missile image. (btw is this new, or is it already known?)

and rules.ini

CODE

[DaishiRak]
Damage=100
ROF=50
Range=10
MinimumRange=2;im quite sure it has nothing to do with this
Projectile=Hellraiser
Speed=15
Warhead=QUADHE
Report=Rocket2;added from me
Anim=TDSAMFIRE-N,TDSAMFIRE-NE,TDSAMFIRE-E,TDSAMFIRE-SE,TDSAMFIRE-S,TDSAMFIRE-SW,TDSAMFIRE-W,TDSAMFIRE-NW
Burst=1
Bright=yes

;warhead
[QUADHE]
Spread=512
Wall=yes
Wood=yes
Verses=110%,95%,75%,50%,20%
Conventional=yes
Rocker=yes
InfDeath=2
AnimList=EXPLOLRG
Tiberium=yes
Bright=yes
ProneDamage=150%
Deform=15%
DeformThreshhold=100

-It happens very often while firing on cliffs from above (like in the gif) if the firing direction isn't a straight horizontal/vertical line.
-It also happens while shooting on the ground, but there it doesn't flies in such a wide arc. but it always flies first in a straight line for about 3 or 4 cells and then starts turning.
-Another thing is, that if i shoot on a cell, only 2 or 3 cells away, the missile sometimes doesn't even hit the target, because it flies in a different direction and in a straight line first, and hits the ground before it could start turning. (making it a cool inaccurate missile )
i'm sure that it hasn't to do with anything else except the Projectile [Hellraiser], because i use it for some other weapons too, and those act all the same way, and they all have different weapon settings. (some dont even use minimumRange)
so it is the projectile

But i have a theory that it could happen in combination with the low projectile speed of only 15, all other weapons using hellraiser have a quite low speed too.

AA=yes !!!!!!!! This makes the missile homing to the target.

no it lets it attack air units
ROT makes missiles homing. any ROT value bigger than 0 for homing and ROT=0 for straight line.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Jan 26 2007, 12:05 AM

[Corsair]

-Another thing is, that if i shoot on a cell, only 2 or 3 cells away, the missile sometimes doesn't even hit the target, because it flies in a different direction and in a straight line first, and hits the ground before it could start turning. (making it a cool inaccurate missile )

Yea, I gave a weapon similar to that to the rocket infantry, it was interesting but it was strangely innacurate... the rocket infantry would have quite a time trying to kill an enemy just 2 cells in front of him but apparently he could nail a tank 9 cells away no problem (it had ranged and inaccuracy and there was no minimum cell code set)