A few questions, Possible plannings for a mod... Options

[El_Serpiente]

Okay, i have a couple of questions which i need answers for, if possible. Here goes...
Question 1:
Can you make tiberium work like veins with the overlay? Like how it has pieces which all join together(see below)
Vein tiles in FinalSun:


Question 2:
Can vehicles, like the reaper, drop tiberium but not heal in it?

Question 3:
Can tiberium be changed so it does no damage to infantry, same with veins damaging vehicles?

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Okay, i have a couple of questions which i need answers for, if possible. Here goes...
Question 1:
Can you make tiberium work like veins with the overlay? Like how it has pieces which all join together(see below)
Vein tiles in FinalSun:

i dont know that, but i think its hardcoded how the different tiberium works.

Question 2:
Can vehicles, like the reaper, drop tiberium but not heal in it?

i think no. because units only drop tiberium, if the tiberiumheal=yes tag is present.
so i think you cant have one without the other.
except you make a new deathanimation (explosion) that spawns tiberium like the meteor. then you even can make a unit leave blue and red tiberium without tiberiumheal.

Question 3:
Can tiberium be changed so it does no damage to infantry, same with veins damaging vehicles?

i think the Power= tag in each Tiberium entry does this. Even if this is described as explosive power per bail (if in harvester) for each kind of tiberium, green doesnt explode much different like blue, and blue does more damage to infantry.
Thats why i think this could be the thing you searched for. But it should be tested if Power=0 really does no damage to infantry.
[Riparius]
Name=Tiberium Riparius
Image=1
Power=4
Value=14 ;25
Growth=1250 ;2200
GrowthPercentage=.09 ;09
Spread=1250 ;2200
SpreadPercentage=.15 ;09
Color=NeonGreen ; **WARNING**: If you change this color, notify Bret_a

at least you could give every infantry TiberiumProof=yes.

But while we are already talking about Tiberium i have a question too.
Is there a way to make Tiberium spread like shown in videos from TD? Sometimes it builds crystals on the surface but the main plant has veins/spores in the underground. This way Tiberium spreads much more and a new Field could arise without any Tiberium around.
Perhaps it is even possible to make the new underground tiberium only visible using the sensor arrays showing up then like tiberiumveins.
Pavement has then a new intended use too: Protecting your Base from Tiberium growing uncontrollable.
-Tibtree spawns Underground spores like veins.
-Spores Tiberium is invisible and you can place buildings on it. Can be seen by sensor arrays.
-Spores Tiberium causes normal Tiberium to arise.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Dec 19 2006, 09:39 AM

[Roani52]

Ok, just a stupid question, offtopic and eh... Well:
Why is there in the rules.ini file this written?
Color=NeonGreen ; **WARNING**: If you change this color, notify Bret_a

WHO is BRET_A and WHY IS IT IN RULES.INI. And more inportant WHY SHOULD I NOTIFY HIM?
I changed that color much times, but didn't notify him.

I putted this in this topic because I thougt it is too stupid/insignificant to post this in a new topic.

[Creagor]

Ok, just a stupid question, offtopic and eh... Well:
Why is there in the rules.ini file this written?
Color=NeonGreen ; **WARNING**: If you change this color, notify Bret_a

WHO is BRET_A and WHY IS IT IN RULES.INI. And more inportant WHY SHOULD I NOTIFY HIM?
I changed that color much times, but didn't notify him.

I putted this in this topic because I thougt it is too stupid/insignificant to post this in a new topic.

BRET_A is one of the creators of TS. When TS was being tested in the pre-release (remember that the makers didnt expect people to look in the files years later!), beta versions had theese comments. BRET_A was obviously the one who decided on the colours green/blue for tiberium, so would need to know if anyone changed it. There is no need to you notify anyone, as you are not beta testing TS.

[Blacksilence]

They couht predict that.
It is a cool Game. :biggrin: