HoverHeight
Height in leptons that a hovering unit rides above the ground.
- Applies to
- global rules
- File
rules.ini- Section
[General]- Value
- integer
- When omitted
120
A powered hover unit rides below this height above the ground. The value is in leptons, not cells or terrain levels. A cell is 256 leptons across and a terrain level is about 104 leptons high. With the stock Gravity and HoverDampen, a unit rising from the ground stops climbing at about three quarters of this height and then bobs about that point. The stock 120 therefore holds a unit between about 80 and 104 leptons up, no higher than one terrain level.
The cushion pushes harder the lower the unit is. While a powered unit’s clearance, its height above the ground, is below this value, each frame adds (2 × HoverHeight − clearance) ÷ HoverHeight × Gravity to its vertical motion. Gravity is taken off every frame. Heights are kept in whole leptons, so the unit stops climbing once it would rise less than one lepton in a frame, which happens well short of this height. A smaller Gravity or HoverDampen leaves the unit lower.
Below a quarter of this height the unit gets a further Gravity ÷ 3, rounded down to whole leptons, with or without power. A Gravity below 3 makes this extra zero.
While the next step of the unit’s path climbs to a higher cell, the cushion treats the unit as this much lower than it is. The unit therefore starts rising a cell before the slope.
The levitation locomotor, which the stock Tiberium Floater uses, floats at the same height.