[SmokeyDaBear]

Hi, Is there a way for me to make debris do damage if it hits something?

[IraqiPeopleRocks]

same here because it would be cool!

[Ambershee]

Look up the aircraft crashing bits of the ini - they can be set to do damage easily. Simply apply that to your debris objects, and you should have it all working fine

[SmokeyDaBear]

which ini? factionunit? objectcreationlist?

[Waraddict]

I believe it SHOULD be possible, all that's required is to create a death OCL that fires debris objects in random directions then for the debris objects to 'die' with a weapon death.

The tricky area I would guess to be is to get the debris to 'die' on hit rather then in a fixed period of a time, this may be fixed by treating the debris as projectiles but Im not sure.

[EvilViking]

I don't think it's possible, as debris spawned from an OCL are just models with speed settings. They don't have any physical properties.

[GuyInTheWindow]

Like what Ambershee said, you just need to make the debris object fire some weapon when they die.

The object is in System.ini -> GenericDebris

[Ambershee]

I don't think it's possible, as debris spawned from an OCL are just models with speed settings. They don't have any physical properties.

Bah, give them physical properties man! I don't have generals installed at present, so I couldn't refer to an exact file. Anyway, a crashing aircraft hulk is an example of a debris object with the properties you're describing. Normally debris has something in it's ini entry that kills it off after a period of time - add a death weapon to it and it should be fine.

The object is in System.ini -> GenericDebris

I'd take your word for that !

[SmokeyDaBear]

So i should add a lifetime update, and a weaponset to this:

Object GenericDebris

; *** ART Parameters ***
Draw = W3DDebrisDraw ModuleTag_01
;nothing
End

; ***DESIGN parameters ***
EditorSorting = SYSTEM

; *** AUDIO Parameters ***
SoundDie = NoSound

; *** ENGINEERING Parameters ***
KindOf = UNATTACKABLE

Behavior = PhysicsBehavior ModuleTag_03
AllowBouncing = Yes
KillWhenRestingOnGround = Yes
End

Behavior = SlowDeathBehavior ModuleTag_04
SinkDelay = 5000
SinkRate = 0.003 ; in Dist/Sec
DestructionDelay = 2000
End

End

[CommieDog]

I imagine that KillWhenRestingOnGround = Yes in the PhysicsBehavior module already takes care of 'killing' the object, so all you would need to do is add is a FireWeaponWhenDeadBehavior module.