A few suggestions Options

[Bittah Commander]

Here's just a few requests/suggestions...

• A superweapons allowed multiplayer option (checkbox).
• A superweapon launch anim.
• Air strikes (possibly you could adapt the Hunter Seeker's logic for this).
• EMPulseSparkles= moved from [AudioVisual] to the (EMP) weapon or warhead (this way the visual effect an EMP weapon has on a vehicle can differ per weapon).
• Sticky anims (warhead animations that stick to units, just like the EMP sparkles). It might be useful to know that when you add Next= to EMP_FX01 (the default EMP sparkle anim), the animation specified after Next= will stick to the unit when it moves.
• the Shockwave from Ion Cannon to be made optional (so it can either be disabled for the Ion Cannon or be assigned to other weapons).
• Dogfights
• The possiblity for units to pick multiple (possibly have a definable limit) firepower or armor power-ups, just like in Sole Survivor (it's already possible with speed upgrades I believe). Currently when a unit that already picked up a firepower upgrade or armor upgrade picks up another crate which is supposed to contain a firepower or armor upgrade, it'll be a money crate instead (even if money crates are turned off).
• ROF power-ups (also like in Sole Survivor).
• The option for stealth crates to be temporary (so units that pick up a stealth crate will uncloak again after a certain amount of time). If reversing the effects of a stealth crate is not possible, maybe have a stealth crate attach an invisible sticky anim to the unit which after a certain amount of time (set via a number of invisible frames and framerate) jumps to another invisible sticky anim with 1 frame (via Next=) which deals 1 damage point, then jumps to another invisible sticky anim with 1 frame which heals 1 damage point and constantly keeps looping these 2 single frame anims.
  I believe animations can't heal units however, which brings me to my next point...
• Animations that can heal units (like weapons or particle systems can).
• The ability to select a target for a hunter seeker (like you would do with any other super weapon). This would for example allow modders to modify the hunter seeker into a missile which can be shot down for (or just a plain hunter seeker which attacks the target you want it to attack). I'd suggest the possibility for normal missiles to be shot down... But I doubt there's even a point in bothering

[SeekSomethingNew]

I don't think this small (re-)suggestion needs it's own topic, so I'll post it here.

When playing with Visual Details on High, the outer transparent red laser lines are hardcoded to be red. Their color can't be changed from rules.ini.
[attachment=6703:lasrbeam.PNG]
The laser here has the following code (I wanted to make a purple laser):

As you can see, only the small beam ("InnerColor") is purple. Then there is the small outer line, which is also purple. However, the big lines in the sides, which get drawn only when Visual Details are on High, are always red.

As far as I know the color is changeable in RA2 (at least to the house's color).

Indeed, this is planned, aswell as custom Sonic Beam colours

So what keys are needed?

[Rampastring]

So what keys are needed?

Hmm.. probably something like WeaponType.ExternalLaserColor (RGB), WeaponType.SonicColor (or WeaponType.SonicBeamColor, RGB) and WeaponType.UseHouseColor (boolean).

If the weapon is a laser (has IsLaser=true) but ExternalLaserColor and UseHouseColor do not exist in the weapon's code, the game could default to the current red color, and if the weapon is a sonic weapon (has IsSonic=yes) but SonicBeamColor and UseHouseColor do not exist in the weapon's code the game could default to the current teal color.

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Aug 11 2009, 02:54 PM