ConditionRedSparkingProbability

Chance each frame that a critically damaged object starts throwing sparks.

Specification

Applies to: global rules
File: rules.ini
Section: [General]
Value: floating point
When omitted: .02

While an object’s strength is below ConditionRed, this is the chance each frame that it starts throwing damage sparks. The value is a fraction: 0 never starts sparks, and 1 or more starts them on practically every frame the chance is drawn. Between ConditionRed and ConditionYellow, ConditionYellowSparkingProbability applies instead.

An object carries at most one spark system at a time, and no chance is drawn while one is running. The value therefore sets how soon a new spark system follows the last one, not how many sparks show at once.

Sparks can start only when all of these hold:

the type’s DamageParticleSystems names at least one ParticleSystemType with BehavesLike=Spark;
the object is less than 10 leptons below ground level;
the object is a vehicle, an aircraft or a structure, or infantry whose type sets Cyborg=yes.

The spark system is one of those Spark entries, picked at random, placed at the type’s DamageSmokeOffset from the object’s center.