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SpiralRadius

The radius of the corkscrew a railgun trace winds around its beam, in leptons.

Specification
Applies to
ParticleSystemType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
floating point
When omitted
25.0

Every particle of the trace is placed this far out from the line between the muzzle and the target, at the angle SpiralDeltaPerCoord gives it, so the figure is the visible thickness of the corkscrew. It is in leptons, 256 to a cell, which puts the stock traces at 6 and 15 — a small fraction of a cell out from the beam. Only the Railgun behavior reads it.

rules.ini
[MyRailgunSys] ; a ParticleSystemType registered in [ParticleSystems]
BehavesLike=Railgun
HoldsWhat=MyRailgunPart ; a ParticleType registered in [Particles]
SpiralRadius=15
SpiralDeltaPerCoord=.03
PositionPerturbationCoefficient=30

PositionPerturbationCoefficient is applied on top and is measured in the same leptons, so a scatter set larger than this radius buries the coil in its own noise — which is what the stock traces do, and why they read as ragged streaks rather than as springs.

See also — BehavesLike, SpiralDeltaPerCoord, ParticlesPerCoord, PositionPerturbationCoefficient