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[RDH]Zerted wrote:To kill someone with team damage off, you need to crush them, send them into a death or damage region, or code it into the Lua.

In the scripting documentation, there are two events of intrest. CharacterDispensePowerup and CharacterDispenseControllable. For your death weapon, make it one of these (powerup or controllable) and give it to the unit. In the Lua using the 'On' + [event], determine if the powerup/controllable dropped is the death weapon. If so, call ScriptCB_PlayerSuicide([player]) and the player will die. However, this won't kill/damage any units nearby so there really isn't much point.

Rekubot wrote:I gave the tie mauler a self destruct feature, and it works even with friendly fire turned off. So it is possible. I also used the remote droid ODF, but of course I changed it a bit.

Adreniline wrote:Another way I have done it, is by giving a unit a timebomb, and turning the cook time from 5 to 0

In other words, insta-explosion

xwingguy wrote:about the explosion thing...

Did we forget about this:

com_weap_inf_remotedroid_destruct

classlabel = "destruct"

not entirely sure whether or not the soldier class can use it or not.

com_weap_droid_incinerator_ord wrote: [OrdnanceClass]

ClassLabel = "emitterordnance"

[Properties]
ImpactEffectWater = "com_sfx_watersplash_ord"

Radius = "12"
ConeLength = "0"
ConeAngle = "120"
FirstRadius = "0.0"
MaxTargets = "10" // Max number of targets to hit. Chaining is off so the damage will be split between the number of targets
NoChaining = "1" // No chaining - all bolts coming from the attacker

Explosion = "com_weap_droid_incinerator_exp"

//OrdnanceSound = "com_weap_launcher_energy_dumbfire"

Damage = "10000" // This is the min damage. Even if the initial damage is split between the number of targets, it will never go below this number for each target
MaxDamage = "10000" // This is the max damage
JumpDeduction = "0" // No jump deduction. This is for chaining only
DamageThreshold = "0" // Always do damage (no threshold)
MaxJumpDistance = "0" // No max jump distance because the chaining is off

VehicleScale = "0.0"
ShieldScale = "1.0"
PersonScale = "1.0"
AnimalScale = "1.0"
DroidScale = "1.0"
BuildingScale = "0.0"

//Push = "0.0"
//LightningEffect = "com_sfx_lightning"
//LightningEffectScale = "0.25"
//NoTargetLightningEffectCount = "5" // The number of ligthning effects to display when the ordinance has no targets to hit
//NoTargetLightningEffectRandomSpread = "0.4" // The random rotation spread the ligthning effects does when the ordinance has no targets to hit


PlayEffectOnOwner = "com_sfx_weap_remotedroid_exp"

SmolderEffectTimer = 0.5

//SmolderEffect = "com_sfx_inf_damage_disintergrate"
//SmolderBone = "bone_l_forearm"

SmolderVanishDeath = "1"

PAN-Fnord and [RDH]Zerted wrote:
P-F: Well, you can't spawn as a vehicle per-se because it doesn't derive from the same things a soldier does. What you can do is in your mission script, when the player spawns, create a flyer (or grab one from somewhere), put it at his position, and force him into it. We were doing that as a test at one point, but that was scrapped - it works though.

Mike Z

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R-Z: I've found OnCharacterEnterVehicle(), ForceAIOutOfVehicles(), and a few others, but nothing to force a unit to enter a vehicle. Is it done using SetProperty() or do you force the player to press the enter vehicle key when they are standing close to the vehicle?

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P-F: It's just EnterVehicle(vehicle, playerNumber)

Where "vehicle" is either a reference to a vehicle or a string that is the name of a vehicle. For vehicle names, vehicles take the name of their vehicle-spawns, so if your vehicle spawn is "snazzy" even if it's spawning X-Wings, they're snazzy1, etc. Otherwise you can actually just create a vehicle using
CreateEntity(ODFname, optionalMatrix, optionalNameForVehicle)

So you can do EnterVehicle(CreateEntity("all_fly_snowspeeder"), 1) hopefully.

Mike Z

Penguin wrote:*cough*PlayEffectOnOwner = "com_sfx_weap_remotedroid_exp" *cough*

Big_rich wrote:Have you tried to put it as a secondary weapon in the soldiers odf? Then make the weapon destruct in class label? Just use this as the weapon(edited odf), try it and see if this does it for you. I have a feeling it's crashing cause it doesn't have a .msh/geometry.:

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[u]all_weap_inf_remotedroid_destruct[/u]

[WeaponClass]
ClassLabel          = "destruct"

[Properties]
GeometryName        = "com_weap_inf_grenadethermal"
HighResGeometry     = "com_1st_weap_inf_grenadethermal"

OffhandWeapon       = 1

//***********************************************
//************* TARGET & RANGE VALUES  **********
//***********************************************

TargetEnemy         = "1"
TargetNeutral       = "1"
TargetFriendly      = "1"

TargetPerson        = "1"
TargetAnimal        = "1"
TargetDroid         = "1"
TargetVehicle       = "1"
TargetBuilding      = "1"

MinRange            = "0"
OptimalRange        = "0"
MaxRange            = "0"

LockOnRange         = "30.0"

IconTexture         = "HUD_orbital_strike_icon"

RoundsPerClip           = "1"

MaxPressedTime          = "3.0"

InitialSalvoDelay       = "0.0"

AimAzimuth          = "0.0"
AimElevation            = "70.0"
AimDistance         = "600.0"

SalvoCount          = "4"
SalvoDelay          = "0.75"

ScatterDistance         = "2.5"

ChargeSound             = "com_weap_remote_charge_fire"
SelfDestructSoundPitch  = "0.3"

OrdnanceName            = "com_weap_droid_incinerator_ord"
HUDTag                  = "hud_detpack_plunger"

maybe even add an animation bank if need be.

PvtParts wrote:Well, in my games, I redid the shockfield weapon. Now, its meant to be a self destruct weapon. I used the ApplyOnOwnerIfOnOthers command to simulate a self destruct sort weapon. Basically, if there is no-one in the immediate area when you fire it you do not die, but when others are affected, it kills you as well.

Have you considered using the SoldierHealth command, and setting it to a negative number, such as -500

[RDH]Zerted wrote:When you press the respawn button, it runs: ScriptCB_PlayerSuicide(this.viewpoint)