You were saying gentlemen?

[peterthepigeon]

Some characters go here.

[AchromicWhite]

Lines to tell where they're going?

What happens when they're meant to go somewhere, get stuck and then give up?

Does the line change etc?

  -Liam

[Nyerguds]

it's the laser beam.

 

Some characters go here.

The actual hacks would be more useful...

[AchromicWhite]

Ohhhhh.

Well that's cool too. Does this also work for Infantry??

And, does it always fire from above the unit, or does it fire from where ever the gun is?

I think Kilk would be interested in this, for his mod. You might want to give him a bell.

  -Liam

[Nyerguds]

I assume it fires from the point where normally the projectile would spawn. Not sure why it appears so far from the tank there.

[cn2mc]

Most probably the projectile spawns there indeed for tanks, and when it's a shell it looks just as if it flew out of the barrell. Can we have a few pictures of the tank firing the laser in different directions? That might give an interesting perspective on South advantage and offsets in general.

[Nyerguds]

It's ridiculously hard to make a screenshot of the laser exactly on the one frame it fires, actually

[cn2mc]

Is it really just one frame? That explains why it often doesn't draw at all ingame. Still, would be nice...

[Nyerguds]

Yes, it's really only one frame. From what I've seen, game speed doesn't even affect it.

 

I think the code that draws is is the same code that normally takes care of the muzzle flash... which is also just a single frame.

[Messiah]

Laser tanks. 

German army already has build it:

http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundeswehr-laserwaffen-101.html

 

 

Is it possible to add lasers to RA?

[Allen508]

Not with out changeing the lighting bolts from Tesla Coils/Tanks/Troopers and than than the "laser" is not a nice line.

[Kilkakon]

I would be interested in this yeah. If the dino attack could be modified into a laser that worked on an infantry, it would be very very fitting :O Currently I have the invisible laser of terrible death.

 

Of course, if it fires from where the muzzle normally is, I'd have to get that moved as it would be waaay off target...

 

Mhmmm...

[TaxOwlbear]

I very vaguely remember a mod where every unit used the Obelisk of Light laser or the flame tank flame attack. And one where every building and unit costs $1. That made for some interesting matches.

[peterthepigeon]

I'll post how I did it, when I have some time after what I'm working on is finished.

[Nyerguds]

Awesome, thanks

 

Not with out changeing the lighting bolts from Tesla Coils/Tanks/Troopers and than than the "laser" is not a nice line.

Umm... since we're talking about hacking here, that's simply not true at all. This code can very probably be added to RA somehow. It'll probably take a lot of work, though.

[AchromicWhite]

It's the TD flame logic that I'd really like to see transferred over

But laser would be cool, too.

  -Liam

[Nyerguds]

Um. The actual TD flame weapon logic isn't hard; as I said before, it's just a short range weapon that does quite some spread damage. There's nothing special about it.

 

Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't do damage between the attacker and the target; anything that makes it look that way is just spread damage, combined with the fact a weapon can't do damage to the one firing it. (This is also the reason why using flamethrowers in groups is a really bad idea; it does damage their colleagues standing around them )

[AchromicWhite]

Yes, I know about how it dmgs them.

That's quite cool. I'd really like to know the full stats on them, then. Could be an easy way to make RA1 flamers work like TD after all... though, would need the flame 'muzzle flash'. So map based mods wouldn't maybe LOOK good (and let's be honest, that's important!)

  -Liam