IsRailgun
Punches a damaging line through the world from the muzzle to the target as the weapon fires.
- Applies to
- WeaponType
- File
rules.ini- Section
[<ObjectType ID>]- Value
- boolean
- When omitted
no
The beam is worked out the instant the shot goes off, before the projectile has traveled anywhere. The line from the muzzle to the target’s center is walked in 50 steps, and every cell it passes into is examined: an object standing there is damaged when its center lies within [CombatDamage] RailgunDamageRadius of the line, and a structure in a crossed cell is never measured against that distance and always counts. The object aimed at is damaged whether or not the line actually crossed it. Each victim takes AmbientDamage through the weapon’s Warhead=, once, and the firing object is skipped.
[MyRailgun] ; example WeaponTypeIsRailgun=yesAmbientDamage=200 ; the beam's damageDamage=0 ; the projectile carries noneAttachedParticleSystem=LargeRailgunSys ; a ParticleSystemType registered in [ParticleSystems]ROF=60The walk stops at the first point where the ground stands higher than the beam, so a hill between the two ends of the shot cuts it short there; a destroyable cliff at that point may be brought down, at the chance [CombatDamage] CollapseChance sets. The beam’s own settled point is where the particle system is drawn to.
Unlike a sonic weapon, a railgun does not give up its projectile’s damage — Damage= is still carried by the shot and still delivered on impact, so a weapon meant to do its work through the beam alone must set it to nothing.
The particle system named by AttachedParticleSystem= is spawned along the beam, and neither of the object’s weapons may fire again until it has burned out. While one is alive the reload delay is exactly ROF: the house’s rate of fire bias, the burst gaps and the random padding are all skipped, so the effect’s own lifetime and ROF together decide the firing rate. A structure with more than one round left waits a single frame instead, so only the effect’s own lifetime paces it.