Bouncer

Throws the animation into the air on a random arc instead of playing it where it was created.

Specification

Applies to: AnimType
File: art.ini
Section: [<ObjectType ID>]
Value: boolean
When omitted: no

The animation launches from 10 leptons above the point where it was created. Its two horizontal speeds are random within the MaxXYVel range, and MinZVel sets its upward speed. Gravity then reduces the vertical speed by 1.4 leptons every frame.

IsMeteor=yes also puts the animation in flight without this flag, but flies it in along a straight line with no gravity. When both are set, the animation flies as a meteor.

The flight ends at the first contact with the ground, a bridge deck, or a building or wall in the path. On that frame the animation is removed after it produces its landing effects:

ExpireAnim, and with it a blast that deals Damage through the animation’s Warhead
ExpireSound
Spawns
IsTiberium

On water, a wake and a splash replace the expiry animation and its blast, and the expiry sound, Spawns and IsTiberium are skipped. A landing on a bridge deck over water counts as a landing on land, except that IsTiberium spreads nothing from a landing on any bridge deck.

Elasticity decides whether the contact also counts as a strike. A strike plays BounceAnim and BounceSound and deals the DamageRadius damage.

A thrown animation differs from an ordinary one in two more ways:

It deals none of the per-frame Damage an ordinary animation deals to its surroundings.
It leaves a Crater or Scorch mark only when its largest frame is its first. The mark is made when the animation starts, at the launch point.

[MYDEBRIS]         ; a chunk thrown off a destroyed vehicle
Bouncer=yes
MaxXYVel=30.0      ; up to 30 leptons a frame sideways
MinZVel=20.0       ; at least 20 leptons a frame upward
LoopCount=-1       ; loop until the chunk lands
ExpireAnim=TWLT026 ; the stock small impact flash

See also — IsMeteor, MaxXYVel, MinZVel, Elasticity, ExpireAnim, Spawns