Scorch
Blackens the ground under the animation and sets a small fire burning there.
- Applies to
- AnimType
- File
art.ini- Section
[<ObjectType ID>]- Value
- boolean
- When omitted
no
Both effects hang off the frame whose artwork covers the most ground, and both run again each time a looping animation comes back to that frame.
The scorch mark
Section titled “The scorch mark”While the animation stands less than 30 leptons above the ground beneath it, a scorch is stamped at its position. It is picked at random from the smudge types declaring Burn=yes that fit the location, so a cell already carrying a smudge, a ramp, a cell holding an overlay, a cell a building stands on, a cell outside the playable area, or ground the theater’s tile refuses marks on takes nothing. Multiple cell scorches join the candidates only where that largest frame measures more than 48 pixels across and 40 down.
An animation declaring Crater=yes as well leaves a scorch half the time and a crater the other half, never both. This setting is the one tested first, so the crater is the fallback.
The fire
Section titled “The fire”Below 10 leptons above the ground the animation also creates the rules’ SmallFire at its own position, for one or two times the loop count the fire type carries, and hands it to whatever object the animation is riding so that the two come off together. Water, beach, ice and rock take no fire; the scorch mark above is not filtered that way.
Flamer=yes displaces the fire entirely. An animation declaring both still lays its scorch mark, but throws the flame thrower’s scattered fires instead of this single one.