TreeFire

The two flames that burn on a terrain object once it catches.

Specification

Applies to: global rules
File: rules.ini
Section: [AudioVisual]
Value: typelist
When omitted: (empty)

[AudioVisual]
TreeFire=MYTREEFIRE1,MYTREEFIRE2 ; AnimTypes registered in [Animations]

A terrain object that catches fire shows one of the first two entries, picked at random with equal odds. The order carries no meaning: naming a small flame first and a large one second does not make small fires more common. Entries past the second are never used.

A terrain object can catch fire only when all of the following hold, tested in this order:

It is not crumbling, the animation a destroyed terrain object plays before it disappears.
It is not already burning.
Its type has Armor=wood, which a TerrainType has unless its section sets another armor.
Its type does not set SpawnsTiberium=yes, so a blossom tree never burns.

Such an object catches fire in two ways:

A Sparky=yes warhead damages it. Only a Wood=yes warhead damages a terrain object, and only when the terrain type sets Immune=no.
A burning neighbor spreads the fire, as TreeFlammability describes.

The flame sits 80 leptons above the center of the object.

How long the flame burns depends on its LoopCount. With LoopCount=1 it burns until the terrain object is destroyed. With most other values it plays a fixed number of passes and then ends or moves on to its Next animation.

See also — Sparky, Wood, Immune, TreeFlammability, OnFire