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Maveritchell wrote:It's possible to make a building catch fire, but how you do it depends on the building. If it's a building that has health, then all you have to do is add damage effects (just like with vehicles) that start at a certain amount of damage. If it's a building without health, you'd need to make 2 .odfs, one with health and one without, and when you wanted the building to catch fire, script it so that the building without fire gets killed and the building with fire is put in its place.

[GameObjectClass]

ClassLabel		=	"prop"
GeometryName	=	"yav2_bldg_Temple.msh"


[Properties]

GeometryName	=	"yav2_bldg_Temple"

FoleyFXGroup    = "stone_foley"

Caleb1117 wrote:Or, you could attach the flame effect to some really small prop.
Like make a prop odf that calls the grenade msh, and attach an effect to it.
Then place them inside the temple .msh so the effect is poking out of the msh.

As for what hardpoint to attach it to, I'm pretty sure, that if the hardpoint you specify doesn't exist it selects one at random to use. (probably the dummyroot)

Maveritchell wrote:by combining the animations of another building and a smaller object with effect attach hardpoints

Maveritchell wrote:If you're gonna give the building health (i.e. you want to make it destructable), then your .odf would look something like this:

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[GameObjectClass]

ClassLabel      =   "destructablebuilding"
GeometryName   =   "yav2_bldg_Temple.msh"


[Properties]

MaxHealth = "30000.0"

DamageStartPercent		= 55.0
DamageStopPercent		= 0.0
DamageEffect			= "com_sfx_vehicleflame"
DamageEffectScale		= 1.5
DamageInheritVelocity		= 0.0
DamageAttachPoint		= "yav2_bldg_temple_mockv12"

GeometryName   =   "yav2_bldg_Temple"

FoleyFXGroup    = "stone_foley"

Only thing I'm not completely sure about is that damageattachpoint. The problem is that since it's such a large prop you want to attach an effect to (and the effect can be changed or scaled to make it larger), and since the prop doesn't have any real hardpoints, there's a chance you may end up with the effect attached to the center of the model.

You shouldn't have to worry about the two-.odf thing if you want to go this route, however, there are a number of advantages - the largest being that you can use .lua scripting to make a building with fire attached to it (by combining the animations of another building and a smaller object with effect attach hardpoints) appear when a building takes a certain amount of damage. To do the two-.odf thing, you need to look into the scripting guide, which has some info on how to kill an object or how to animate an object up (and animation + scripting would be the easiest thing to do here) when another object takes a certain amount of damage and/or is destroyed.

[GameObjectClass]

ClassLabel      =   "destructablebuilding"
GeometryName   =   "yav2_bldg_Temple.msh"


[Properties]

MaxHealth = "50000.0"

DamageStartPercent      = 55.0
DamageStopPercent      = 0.0
DamageEffect         = "com_sfx_vehicleflame"
DamageEffectScale      = 1000.5
DamageInheritVelocity      = 0.0
DamageAttachPoint      = "yav2_bldg_temple_mockv12"

GeometryName   =   "yav2_bldg_Temple"

FoleyFXGroup    = "stone_foley"

Maveritchell wrote:There are a bunch of ways to do it, and they depend on exactly what you want to happen. Do you want the building to eventually be able to be destroyed? Do you want it to just catch on fire after a certain amount of damage? What?

Maveritchell wrote:The damageeffectpercent just specifies when the damage effect becomes visible, in this case at 55% health. If you lowered the building's health to that, and still can't see it, it's cause the hardpoint is located in a bad position, like somewhere inside the model.

I think the best solution to your problem would be to:
1) Learn how to use an object's destruction to trigger an animation (and know how to animate in ZE) through .lua coding,
then, once you can do that, you can
2) Create a destructible prop with say, 60% health you want for the building's maxhealth. If you want, (and I think it'd be a good idea) create an explosion in the .odf (a large one) that triggers on the building's death.
3) Use .lua coding to animate a building (that uses the same model, but has a different health, say 40% of the building's total desired health) into the same position as the prior building. (Make it a fast animation, so that it's nearly instantaneous.)
4) Use .lua coding to animate a small object with a hardpoint to attach an effect to (like caleb and I mentioned earlier) up to the position just inside the model you want the building to be on fire. Attach an effect to the small object in the .odf.

The end result here is a building that takes a certain amount of damage and then explodes into flame.