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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: edd2010 on February 10, 2010, 07:00:03 pm

Title: Meson Bomb
Post by: edd2010 on February 10, 2010, 07:00:03 pm

How do i get the Meson Bomb to explode quicker, it takes ages

Title: Re: Meson Bomb
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on February 10, 2010, 07:18:38 pm

Set it to kamikaze.  The time it takes any ship to explode is based on the size of the explosion.  Bigger the damage the longer it takes.  Kamikze will cause it to explode immediately. 

Title: Re: Meson Bomb
Post by: Aardwolf on February 10, 2010, 11:30:14 pm

Ooo, that's nice to know. I'd tried to do this once but never figured it out, and never bothered.

Title: Re: Meson Bomb
Post by: edd2010 on February 14, 2010, 01:11:57 pm

cheers fot the help
its been driving me crazy

Title: Re: Meson Bomb
Post by: jr2 on February 16, 2010, 01:45:35 pm

So, there is no way to manually specify the detonation time or set it to random?  The only thing you can do is get the ship to explode immediately by setting the kamikaze?

Title: Re: Meson Bomb
Post by: blowfish on February 16, 2010, 02:43:42 pm

Quote from: jr2 on February 16, 2010, 01:45:35 pm

So, there is no way to manually specify the detonation time or set it to random?  The only thing you can do is get the ship to explode immediately by setting the kamikaze?

No, unfortunately there isn't a way to set what, in code terms, is known as the deathroll time.  It might be a nice feature to add (both at a ships.tbl level and at a mission level), but it hasn't been done yet.

Title: Re: Meson Bomb
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on February 16, 2010, 03:38:27 pm

Of course there is.  Set the damage done by the bomb itself lower and add a sepcial-explosion sexp at it's coordinates.