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NextParticleOffset

How far a successor particle is placed from the one it replaces.

Specification
Applies to
ParticleType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
offset (x,y,z)
When omitted
0,0,0
rules.ini
[MYGASSEED] ; a ParticleType registered in [Particles]
Image=gaslrgmk
BehavesLike=Gas
MaxEC=448
NextParticle=MYGASCLOUD ; a ParticleType registered in [Particles]
NextParticleOffset=0,0,150 ; the cloud forms 150 leptons above where the seed died

Three lepton components — X, Y and Z — added to the position an expiring particle held when its NextParticle successor is created there. Only gas, weak gas and web systems apply it. A smoke system scatters its pair of successors with Radius and never reads the offset, and fire, spark and railgun systems create no successors at all.

The offset is applied once, at the moment of the replacement, and each link of a chain adds its own: three types that each raise their successor by 150 leptons leave the last of them 300 leptons above where the chain began.

See also — NextParticle, Radius