[copperhead]

Hello

Does anyone have any idea of how to make a laser, or stream, to fire a weapon on impact. I want a laserbeam to fire for a short while and then get a delayed detonation from the impactpoint of the laser. Something like the "particlebeam" worked in the first Command & Conquer thus not a superweapon in this case. I have tried using a projectile that detonates with a FireWeaponWhenDead module but found no way to get the laserbeameffect in there. My closest call was to put the laserbeam in one weaponslot and a projectilelauncher (with a FireWeaponWhenDead module in order to get the detonation) in the other but the downside with that method is that sometimes it will just use the beam and sometimes only the projectilelauncher which give quite off results. :/

Easiest way i can think of is to get a laserbeam to fire a weapon somehow but i have no idea how to get that to work since i have only found projectiles to actually fire a weapon. The thing is really that the laserbeam is merely a visual effect and need not necessarily damage anything since the detonation is meant to deal with that part.

If someone could help i'd be highly greatful.

[2312222]

I am not sure whether this really works but it might be worth a try

Create a missile weapon with invisible projectile and give it a nice exhaust simulating the laser effect. Make the missile extremely fast which results in almost instant impact and a nice laser trail. Then you give that missile weapon a minimum damage of 0.1 but a DetonationOCL which creates a dummy object that kills itself in say 1000 msec, firing the real weapon. Don't forget to give the laser effect particlesystem a really long lifetime so that it's still present even when the missile is already gone.

[copperhead]

Interessting idea. I have tried this already but i overlooked the detail of giving the trailparticles a long lifetime. I will try this too and get back here with the results.

Thanks for the help!

[DeathAngel]

add this to the weapon in the weapon.ini:

FireOCL = OCL_yourthing

then make an OCL of an explosion.
pretty simple

[copperhead]

A FireOCL in the laserbeam-weapon you mean? That doesn't work as far as i know because everytime and way i've tried that very method the OCL is created underneath my firing object and not at the target of the fire. This way i only blow up my own units. I guess this comes from that lasers HAS to be KindOf=IMMOBILE which makes OCL-creation occur on the source spot and not the target spot. :/

[CodeCat]

AFAIK it can't be done without using a projectile. But as already has been said, you can make a projectile trail that looks like a laser.

[copperhead]

Then please tell me how because i've been tweeking this trail now until my head hurt and my computer getting borded with me without getting the result of a proper looking laser. I get all kinds of nice and fun looking trails otherwise but none that are any convincing being a laserbeam.

So, if anyone succeeded with this, please give me the particletrail-code for a lasertrail.

[Thinimus]

Take a look at how the bunker buster weapon is done.

[DeathAngel]

hhmm, MAYBE .... but that probably wont work on a laser weapon

[olegkvasha]

lasers are a royal pain to work with. I have recently completed a Laser Mammoth Tank for the american laser general. It took a while to get both turrets to fire a laser. By accident at one point i managed to make it so the laser fired at a target but didnt do any damamge for the 1st few seconds then it started to damage the target. I will try and see if i saved the INI for it.