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[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]

@LKO:
I used missile.shp; don't worry seems that I couldn't duplicate it because I was attacking from cliffs in vertical/horizontal lines.

Well since I duplicated it; I messed with the values, it seems to be a combination of the slow speed setting and the small ROT. When I increased the speed I could only get nice straight lines, and when increased the ROT I got the same effect but with almost 90º of sudden rotation, was funny to see such a thing; advanced some cells, then full stop with sudden change of direction.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

and acceleration? i think this also has sth to do with this, since all other missile with a higher acceleration fly in a normal way, whatever value you set for speed (Weapon) and ROT (Projectile).
but it's good that you get it duplicated. so it's not only my TS/FS.

the last behaviour you discribed brought me to the idea of making a boomerang weapon, even if i dont know for what purpose.

another thing that would interest me
what happens if you combine the missile behaviour with the split missile logic from the reaper.
Because after each split (maybe even more than one) the missile retargets the enemy and combined with the missile behaviour it would become very inaccurate.
I think it could cause some very cool swarming missiles where you never know if they hit or not and they would affect a wide area. Great for real MLRS rockets damaging a big area.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Jan 26 2007, 03:27 PM