CraterLevel

How many cells around a meteor impact are slumped into a crater.

Specification

Applies to

global rules

File

rules.ini

Section

[General]

Value

integer

When omitted

4

The value selects how far a meteor’s crater spreads from the impact cell. It does not change how deep each cell slumps:

Value	Cells deformed
0	none
1	the impact cell
2	the impact cell and its four corner neighbors (north-east, south-east, south-west and north-west)
3	the impact cell and all eight neighbors
4 or more	as 3, and the impact cell a second time

Only an animation or voxel animation with IsMeteor=yes uses this setting, when it lands. A meteor that lands on water or on a bridge deck deforms nothing. A warhead that reshapes the ground uses its own Deform and DeformThreshhold and affects only the cell it hits.

A cell deforms only when all eight of its neighbors lie inside the playfield. A crater near the edge of the playfield therefore comes out clipped.

Only the last cell of a crater slumps completely

Each cell slumps in two steps. One random corner drops at once, and the other three drop five frames later. The game holds only one pending second step at a time, so each further cell that deforms replaces it. At 2 or more, every cell except the last one deformed ends up with only one corner lowered. At 4, the last cell is the impact cell.

See also — IsMeteor

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