MaxDeathCounter
The number of game frames a destroyed shape-drawn vehicle lingers as a wreck before it explodes.
- Applies to
- UnitType
- File
art.ini- Section
[<Image ID>]Image ID: Image= value; ObjectType ID when omitted- Value
- integer
- When omitted
- ComputedThe derived StartDeathFrame plus DeathFrames, or -1 for a vehicle with no death frames.
A wreck’s death counter starts at zero on the update that destroys the vehicle and steps up by one each game frame. Once it reaches this figure the wreck explodes and is deleted, so the figure is a duration in game frames — 15 to the second — rather than a frame number.
The figure is independent of how long the animation itself runs, which is DeathFrames × DeathFrameRate game frames. The derived default is a frame number carried over rather than a duration chosen for the artwork: it is the frame just past the end of the death run. At the default DeathFrameRate the run therefore always finishes first, and the wreck sits on its last frame for the remainder.
Only a vehicle with DeathFrames above 0 ever starts a death counter, so this setting is inert on any other vehicle.